New York University

• RUKA-v2

Facilities & manufacturing

• Factory floor area

  2025-12-11 - CREO operates more than 10,000 square feet of shared robotics research facilities, including a 6,800-square-foot flagship facility at 370 Jay Street. - 370 Jay Street, Brooklyn, New York

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• Facility

  2025-12-11 - More than 70 NYU faculty, doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers collaborate across CREO shared robotics facilities. - Brooklyn, New York

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• Human Universal Grasping

  2026-06-15 - Research Publication - Introduces HUG, a flow-matching model that predicts diverse human grasps from a single RGB-D image. Trains on 1M-HUGs, an egocentric human grasp dataset spanning more than one million frames and thousands of objects. Includes HUG-Bench and real-world retargeting results across robot hand embodiments.

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• MotionDisco: Motion Discovery for Extreme Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

  2026-06-07 - Research Publication - Introduces an automated framework for discovering long-horizon, contact-rich humanoid loco-manipulation skills without human motion capture, teleoperation, or retargeting. Combines LLM-guided evolutionary search over contact plans, kinodynamic optimization, pruning, and reinforcement-learning tracking policies. Project page and arXiv paper report transfer of discovered trajectories to real humanoid hardware across cluttered scenes and multi-object transport tasks.

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• eFlesh: Highly customizable magnetic touch sensing using cut-cell microstructures

  2026-04-27 - Research Publication - Open-source tactile sensing system using 3D-printed structures, magnets, and magnetometer-based sensing. Supports customizable sensor geometries and integration across grippers, robot hands, and contact surfaces. Provides hardware designs, models, and tooling for learning contact-rich manipulation and visuotactile policies.

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• NYU releases RUKA-v2 open-source dexterous hand

  2026-03-27 - Research Publication - NYU researchers released RUKA-v2, an open-source tendon-driven humanoid hand with wrist mobility and finger abduction-adduction for robot-learning research. The arXiv version was first posted on 27 March 2026. The release includes open hardware, controller software, CAD and assembly documentation.

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Events

• 2026-06-15 - Research Publication - Human Universal Grasping

  Introduces HUG, a flow-matching model that predicts diverse human grasps from a single RGB-D image. Trains on 1M-HUGs, an egocentric human grasp dataset spanning more than one million frames and thousands of objects. Includes HUG-Bench and real-world retargeting results across robot hand embodiments.

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• 2026-06-07 - Research Publication - MotionDisco: Motion Discovery for Extreme Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

  Introduces an automated framework for discovering long-horizon, contact-rich humanoid loco-manipulation skills without human motion capture, teleoperation, or retargeting. Combines LLM-guided evolutionary search over contact plans, kinodynamic optimization, pruning, and reinforcement-learning tracking policies. Project page and arXiv paper report transfer of discovered trajectories to real humanoid hardware across cluttered scenes and multi-object transport tasks.

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• 2026-04-27 - Research Publication - eFlesh: Highly customizable magnetic touch sensing using cut-cell microstructures

  Open-source tactile sensing system using 3D-printed structures, magnets, and magnetometer-based sensing. Supports customizable sensor geometries and integration across grippers, robot hands, and contact surfaces. Provides hardware designs, models, and tooling for learning contact-rich manipulation and visuotactile policies.

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• 2026-03-27 - Research Publication - NYU releases RUKA-v2 open-source dexterous hand

  NYU researchers released RUKA-v2, an open-source tendon-driven humanoid hand with wrist mobility and finger abduction-adduction for robot-learning research. The arXiv version was first posted on 27 March 2026. The release includes open hardware, controller software, CAD and assembly documentation.

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• 2025-12-11 - Facility Opening - NYU opens robotics and embodied intelligence center

  The center opened with more than 70 faculty, doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers working across shared facilities. Its flagship 6,800-square-foot space supports robotics research, alongside dedicated multirobot and manipulation laboratories. Research programs cover autonomous navigation, human-motion learning, healthcare, infrastructure, manufacturing and disaster response.

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Relationships

• Honda

  Robotics Research Industry Partner - NYU's Center for Robotics and Embodied Intelligence maintains an industry partnership with Honda.