Overview

Overview

MagiClaw is a versatile two-finger end-effector that can be hand-held by human operators or mounted on a robotic arm.

It captures comprehensive action data (including kinematic motion, force, and contact deformation) from real-world demonstrations. The fingers feature soft, parallel-mechanism-driven designs, each with a miniature camera for vision-based deformable perception.

An iPhone (with integrated LiDAR) provides additional environmental sensing and processes all sensor streams via a custom iOS application.

Citation

Please cite MagiClaw if you use it in your projects or publications:

@misc{wu2025magiclaw,
      title={MagiClaw: A Dual-Use, Vision-Based Soft Gripper for Bridging the Human Demonstration to Robotic Deployment Gap}, 
      author={Tianyu Wu and Xudong Han and Haoran Sun and Zishang Zhang and Bangchao Huang and Chaoyang Song and Fang Wan},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2509.19169},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.RO},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19169}, 
}