UME is designed to be low-cost, lightweight, portable, and compatible with mobile manipulation through an embedded IMU. A universal retargeting algorithm lets it teleoperate multiple robot arms, including OpenArm, Franka, and X-ARM, while capturing force-mediated behavior.
UME is useful for robotics teams that need data for compliant, bimanual, whole-body manipulation tasks. The project demonstrates autonomous policies for fridge drink retrieval, GPU picking, box flipping, occluded pushing, and blindfolded torque-feedback teleoperation.
