The Yale GRAB Lab

The GRAB Lab conducts research into robot manipulation, dexterous grasping and manipulation, upper-limb prosthetics, human grasping and manipulation, and assistive and rehabilitation devices, among others. Some details on our established work can be found on the Research and Publications pages.

Prof. Dollar recently started a new group at Yale tentatively called Yale Tech for Conservation.

We have recently begun to make some of our robotic hand designs freely available as Open Hardware through the Yale OpenHand Project.

Along with those efforts, we are beginning a larger effort to encourage, centralize, and host other similar Open Robot Hardware efforts through our site OpenRobotHardware.org.

Our lab founded (along with Sidd Srinivasa (CMU) and Pieter Abbeel (Berkeley)) and leads the YCB Object and Model Set benchmarking effort. .

We have recently release a large dataset consisting of tagged video and image data of 28 hours of human grasping movements in unstructured environments: Yale Human Grasping Dataset.

Prof. Dollar is the editor and co-founder of RoboticsCourseWare.org, an open repository for robotics pedagogical materials.