UMI for dexterous hands: Chestnut unveils 18-DOF Aero Hand plus a kinematically matched wearable capture exoskeleton Aero UMI

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The Humanoid Hub spotlights Chestnut’s newly announced pair: Aero Hand, an 18-DOF human-sized dexterous hand with tendon/linkage hybrid actuation tested over 3 million cycles, and Aero UMI, a wearable exoskeleton whose kinematics exactly match the robotic hand, with direct per-joint angle sensing accurate to 0.1 degrees. The idea extends UMI-style portable capture from simple grippers to high-DOF dexterous hands - where the action space is huge and contact force carries the key signal, matching the data collector to the hand matters even more, achieving zero embodiment gap for human data collection; it doubles as a teleoperation rig.