CloudGripper: An Open Source Cloud Robotics Testbed for Robotic Manipulation Research, Benchmarking and Data Collection at Scale

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We present CloudGripper, an open source cloud robotics testbed, consisting of a scalable, space and cost-efficient design constructed as a rack of 32 small robot arm work cells.

• Each robot work cell is fully enclosed and features individual lighting, a low-cost custom 5 degree of freedom Cartesian robot arm with an attached parallel jaw gripper and a dual camera setup for experimentation.
• The system design is focused on continuous operation and features a 10 Gbit/s network connectivity allowing for high throughput remote-controlled experimentation and data collection for robotic manipulation.
• CloudGripper furthermore is intended to form a community testbed to study the challenges of large scale machine learning and cloud and edge-computing in the context of robotic manipulation.