We build low cost dual arm robots for handling cloth
We build low cost dual arm robots for handling cloth. Cloth breaks robots quietly. A gripper closes on a shirt, the fabric slides a couple of millimeters, and the fold comes out crooked. Cameras record the whole sequence and none of them record the grip failing, because that failure is pressure, not an image. So our distals carry thin film force sensors. Contact streams at 200 Hz next to overhead and wrist video and joint state, on one clock, written to LeRobot's dataset format. Now a failed fold leaves a reason behind. The robot is $1,000 in parts, because cloth data has to come from real laundry rooms and real wardrobes, and a cheap rig can be in many of them at once. V0 is built and teleoperating, first recorded folds are happening now. Cordia Labs is pre-seed and based in the Bay Area, and we're looking for laundry operations in Northern California to host an early pilot. [email protected]