Chestnut Robotics at IROS 2026: launching Aero Hand and Aero UMI.
We're bringing our full stack to IROS: the 18-DOF Aero Hand for deployment, and the Aero UMI data-collection exoskeleton for scalable human-manipulation data. Live demos, the team behind the hardware, and the people building it. Find us at Booth 842.
See the announcement on LinkedIn Top newsTetherIA is now Chestnut Robotics, out of stealth.
We rebranded from TetherIA to Chestnut Robotics and officially emerged from stealth. Backed by a team of veterans from Tesla, Apple, ASML, Waymo, and Xpeng, we're building the data-driven dexterous hand for advanced manufacturing.
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Chestnut Robotics at IROS 2026: launching Aero Hand and Aero UMI.
We're bringing our full stack to IROS: the 18-DOF Aero Hand for deployment, and the Aero UMI data-collection exoskeleton. Live demos at Booth 842.
See the announcement on LinkedInTetherIA is now Chestnut Robotics, out of stealth.
We rebranded from TetherIA to Chestnut Robotics and officially emerged from stealth. Backed by veterans from Tesla, Apple, ASML, Waymo, and Xpeng.
Read the thread on XAero Hand Lite launches.
First production Aero Hand Lite units ship, running on a partner electronics assembly line and learning new SKUs by demonstration in under a shift.
Read on LinkedInAero Hand Open launches.
We released Aero Hand Open, a low-cost, lightweight, highly capable open-source robotic hand. The project gained massive traction in the Embodied AI community for making dexterous manipulation accessible.
Explore on GitHubThe genesis of TetherIA.
Founded with a vision to solve the hardest problems in robotic manipulation, bringing together top minds in hardware, software, and AI.
From the archivesResearch notes are on the way.
Early write-ups on tactile control, geometry-aware inpainting for UMI data, and post-training strategies for manipulation foundation models will land here.
Coming soonPerspective pieces coming.
Why hands are the bottleneck, why data beats scale, and other opinions we hold strongly enough to write down.
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Product updates, research, and lab footage as it happens.