HiFi-UMI-2K

HiFi-UMI-2K is the public release from **HiFi-UMI**, a portable bimanual capture system built by Simple AI's Simple World Lab. Demonstrations are recorded by a human wearing a head-mounted stereo rig and a glove-like gripper on each hand — there is no robot, no teleoperation rig, and no instrumented room anywhere in the collection loop. **The claim being tested.** Robot-free UMI data scales easily but is normally used only for pre-training, with a small amount of real-robot teleoperation added at post-training as an accuracy "anchor". The accompanying paper asks whether raising the *fidelity* of the robot-free data can remove that anchor entirely, and reports that a policy post-trained solely on HiFi-UMI deploys directly on a real bimanual robot — success-rate differences of −2.5, +3.1 and −0.6 points against in-domain teleoperation across StarVLA-QwenPI, OpenPI-π₀.₅ and LingBot-VA. **Capture.** Hand pose comes from offline stereo-inertial SLAM plus fiducial marker cubes localised in the head-camera frame, giving roughly 3 mm workspace-local end-effector accuracy without external tracking. Both hands are solved in the same frame, so inter-hand relative pose is native rather than reconstructed across cameras. A shared GPIO trigger keeps every camera, IMU and gripper signal within 40 µs. **Six views per episode.** A head-mounted stereo pair plus two non-parallel fisheye cameras on each hand, covering about 200° around each gripper — all six at 640×512, h264, 25 fps. **What is in the release.** 482,060 episodes and 192,297,515 frames across 398 independently-loadable LeRobot v3 parts, totalling 16.0 TB. 588 distinct natural-language task strings, drawn from ordinary indoor work: microwaves and rice cookers, drawers and cabinets, whiteboards and meeting-room doors, wiping and tidying. `observation.state` and `action` are both float32[20] — per hand, `[x, y, z, rot6d ×6, gripper_angle_rad]` for right then left. The action is an **absolute next-state target**, not a relative delta, and the authors warn against assuming otherwise. **Validity masks, not success labels.** Frames that fail quality control are deliberately retained so that Parquet rows, video frames and timestamps stay index-aligned; `valid.frame == true` is the intended training filter. There is no per-episode success or failure annotation in the exported metadata — the corpus is curated demonstrations that passed replay validation, so it is treated here as success-only. The 2,000-hour public release is a curated subset of a larger internal corpus the paper describes as exceeding 20,000 hours. Released under CC BY 4.0.

language · HiFi-UMI-2K is the public release from **HiFi-UMI**, a portable bimanual capture system built by Simple AI's Simple World Lab. Demonstrations are recorded by a human wearing a head-mounted stereo rig and a glove-like gripper on each hand — there is no robot, no teleoperation rig, and no instrumented room anywhere in the collection loop. **The claim being tested.** Robot-free UMI data scales easily but is normally used only for pre-training, with a small amount of real-robot teleoperation added at post-training as an accuracy "anchor". The accompanying paper asks whether raising the *fidelity* of the robot-free data can remove that anchor entirely, and reports that a policy post-trained solely on HiFi-UMI deploys directly on a real bimanual robot — success-rate differences of −2.5, +3.1 and −0.6 points against in-domain teleoperation across StarVLA-QwenPI, OpenPI-π₀.₅ and LingBot-VA. **Capture.** Hand pose comes from offline stereo-inertial SLAM plus fiducial marker cubes localised in the head-camera frame, giving roughly 3 mm workspace-local end-effector accuracy without external tracking. Both hands are solved in the same frame, so inter-hand relative pose is native rather than reconstructed across cameras. A shared GPIO trigger keeps every camera, IMU and gripper signal within 40 µs. **Six views per episode.** A head-mounted stereo pair plus two non-parallel fisheye cameras on each hand, covering about 200° around each gripper — all six at 640×512, h264, 25 fps. **What is in the release.** 482,060 episodes and 192,297,515 frames across 398 independently-loadable LeRobot v3 parts, totalling 16.0 TB. 588 distinct natural-language task strings, drawn from ordinary indoor work: microwaves and rice cookers, drawers and cabinets, whiteboards and meeting-room doors, wiping and tidying. `observation.state` and `action` are both float32[20] — per hand, `[x, y, z, rot6d ×6, gripper_angle_rad]` for right then left. The action is an **absolute next-state target**, not a relative delta, and the authors warn against assuming otherwise. **Validity masks, not success labels.** Frames that fail quality control are deliberately retained so that Parquet rows, video frames and timestamps stay index-aligned; `valid.frame == true` is the intended training filter. There is no per-episode success or failure annotation in the exported metadata — the corpus is curated demonstrations that passed replay validation, so it is treated here as success-only. The 2,000-hour public release is a curated subset of a larger internal corpus the paper describes as exceeding 20,000 hours. Released under CC BY 4.0.

HiFi-UMI-2K is the public release from **HiFi-UMI**, a portable bimanual capture system built by Simple AI's Simple World Lab. Demonstrations are recorded by a human wearing a head-mounted stereo rig and a glove-like gripper on each hand — there is no robot, no teleoperation rig, and no instrumented room anywhere in the collection loop. **The claim being tested.** Robot-free UMI data scales easily but is normally used only for pre-training, with a small amount of real-robot teleoperation added at post-training as an accuracy "anchor". The accompanying paper asks whether raising the *fidelity* of the robot-free data can remove that anchor entirely, and reports that a policy post-trained solely on HiFi-UMI deploys directly on a real bimanual robot — success-rate differences of −2.5, +3.1 and −0.6 points against in-domain teleoperation across StarVLA-QwenPI, OpenPI-π₀.₅ and LingBot-VA. **Capture.** Hand pose comes from offline stereo-inertial SLAM plus fiducial marker cubes localised in the head-camera frame, giving roughly 3 mm workspace-local end-effector accuracy without external tracking. Both hands are solved in the same frame, so inter-hand relative pose is native rather than reconstructed across cameras. A shared GPIO trigger keeps every camera, IMU and gripper signal within 40 µs. **Six views per episode.** A head-mounted stereo pair plus two non-parallel fisheye cameras on each hand, covering about 200° around each gripper — all six at 640×512, h264, 25 fps. **What is in the release.** 482,060 episodes and 192,297,515 frames across 398 independently-loadable LeRobot v3 parts, totalling 16.0 TB. 588 distinct natural-language task strings, drawn from ordinary indoor work: microwaves and rice cookers, drawers and cabinets, whiteboards and meeting-room doors, wiping and tidying. `observation.state` and `action` are both float32[20] — per hand, `[x, y, z, rot6d ×6, gripper_angle_rad]` for right then left. The action is an **absolute next-state target**, not a relative delta, and the authors warn against assuming otherwise. **Validity masks, not success labels.** Frames that fail quality control are deliberately retained so that Parquet rows, video frames and timestamps stay index-aligned; `valid.frame == true` is the intended training filter. There is no per-episode success or failure annotation in the exported metadata — the corpus is curated demonstrations that passed replay validation, so it is treated here as success-only. The 2,000-hour public release is a curated subset of a larger internal corpus the paper describes as exceeding 20,000 hours. Released under CC BY 4.0.

HiFi-UMI-2K is the public release from **HiFi-UMI**, a portable bimanual capture system built by Simple AI's Simple World Lab. Demonstrations are recorded by a human wearing a head-mounted stereo rig and a glove-like gripper on each hand — there is no robot, no teleoperation rig, and no instrumented room anywhere in the collection loop. **The claim being tested.** Robot-free UMI data scales easily but is normally used only for pre-training, with a small amount of real-robot teleoperation added at post-training as an accuracy "anchor". The accompanying paper asks whether raising the *fidelity* of the robot-free data can remove that anchor entirely, and reports that a policy post-trained solely on HiFi-UMI deploys directly on a real bimanual robot — success-rate differences of −2.5, +3.1 and −0.6 points against in-domain teleoperation across StarVLA-QwenPI, OpenPI-π₀.₅ and LingBot-VA. **Capture.** Hand pose comes from offline stereo-inertial SLAM plus fiducial marker cubes localised in the head-camera frame, giving roughly 3 mm workspace-local end-effector accuracy without external tracking. Both hands are solved in the same frame, so inter-hand relative pose is native rather than reconstructed across cameras. A shared GPIO trigger keeps every camera, IMU and gripper signal within 40 µs. **Six views per episode.** A head-mounted stereo pair plus two non-parallel fisheye cameras on each hand, covering about 200° around each gripper — all six at 640×512, h264, 25 fps. **What is in the release.** 482,060 episodes and 192,297,515 frames across 398 independently-loadable LeRobot v3 parts, totalling 16.0 TB. 588 distinct natural-language task strings, drawn from ordinary indoor work: microwaves and rice cookers, drawers and cabinets, whiteboards and meeting-room doors, wiping and tidying. `observation.state` and `action` are both float32[20] — per hand, `[x, y, z, rot6d ×6, gripper_angle_rad]` for right then left. The action is an **absolute next-state target**, not a relative delta, and the authors warn against assuming otherwise. **Validity masks, not success labels.** Frames that fail quality control are deliberately retained so that Parquet rows, video frames and timestamps stay index-aligned; `valid.frame == true` is the intended training filter. There is no per-episode success or failure annotation in the exported metadata — the corpus is curated demonstrations that passed replay validation, so it is treated here as success-only. The 2,000-hour public release is a curated subset of a larger internal corpus the paper describes as exceeding 20,000 hours. Released under CC BY 4.0. · Simple AI (Simple World Lab)

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