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
Notable Tech
C++ for physics and control
model-based control
mujoco simulator (C++)
upper body of H1
https://github.com/google-deepmind/mujoco_menagerie/tree/main/unitree_h1