VR teleoperation as a robot-data collection rig

A five-hour session yielded three hours of robot data, with frozen arms and unobstructed motion making VR teleop feel more practical than leader-arm setups

Collected 3h of data in ~5h wall time with VR teleop today. Honestly feels way better than leader arms. There's never anything in your way even with weird motions, and being able to leave an arm frozen when not in use is huge. What do you
Ranked #21 on backlist 2026-05-16 (16 May 2026 UTC) · by (Aurel Arnold) ·

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