Palm Camera

A camera mounted in a robot’s palm that gives a close-up view of the hand and object during grasping.

A palm camera is a small camera embedded in a robot’s palm, or in the palm of a handheld data-collection device, positioned closer to the contact point than a wrist camera is. A head-mounted camera often loses sight of the contact area once the hand reaches into a cabinet or is blocked by the object or the arm itself; a palm camera keeps the object in view through the final few centimeters of a grasp. Figure AI’s Figure 03, released in October 2025, includes a wide-angle, low-latency palm camera in each hand, which the company says provides redundant close-range visual feedback when the main cameras are blocked. Carnegie Mellon’s DexWild (RSS 2025) mounts the same kind of palm camera on both its handheld human data-collection device and the robot hand; because this viewpoint mostly frames the task and environment rather than the hand itself, human and robot data are easier to train on together.

ExampleAs Figure 03 reaches into a cabinet for a cup, its head camera is blocked by the cabinet door, so it keeps adjusting its finger positions using the palm camera’s view instead.

Also called

Palm-Mounted Camera, In-Hand Palm Camera

Related

Wrist Camera · Head Camera · Occlusion · DexWild · Figure 03 · Cross-Embodiment Data

Sources

Introducing Figure 03 (Figure AI, 2025-10-09)
DexWild 项目主页 (Chinese)

As of

2025-10