# Hugging Face — Grabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation data

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2026-07-21T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Subject: Platform
- License: open source
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/grabette
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1453-grabette-an-open-system-to-record-robot-manipulation-data

Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics announce Grabette, an open, low-cost handheld system for recording robot manipulation data, along with its robotic counterpart Gripette. The system includes hardware designs, capture software, a browser-based processing pipeline, and outputs standard LeRobot datasets on the Hugging Face Hub.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/grabette:

> Grabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation data. ... That's what we're releasing today: Grabette, an open, low-cost system for recording manipulation data. ... Everything is open source

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