Dual Arm Manipulation — Hello World

December 12, 2025


Here’s a demonstration of basic Dual Arm Manipulation with the upper-body of the Unitree H1 robot. The task is simply to pick up the box and move it closer to the body. The H1 has 4DOF arms and nub-style hands — this limits manipulation capabilities to chopstick-style grasping (can’t apply torque to the box). This demo serves as a stepping stone to manipulation with higher DOF and more complex hands.

Goals

  • Spinup a Dual Arm Manipulation workspace

  • Demonstrate basic manipulation of a Box

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