DG16M: A Large-Scale Dataset for Dual-Arm Grasping with Force-Optimized Grasps

Md Faizal Karim∗1    Mohammed Saad Hashmi∗1    Shreya Bollimuntha1    Mahesh Reddy Tapeti1    Gaurav Singh1    Nagamanikandan Govindan2    K Madhava Krishna1   

1 Robotics Research Center, IIIT Hyderabad, India    2 IIITDM Kancheepuram   



— Dual-arm robotic grasping is crucial for handling large objects that require stable and coordinated manipulation. While single-arm grasping has been extensively studied, datasets tailored for dual-arm settings remain scarce. We introduce a large-scale dataset of 16 million dual-arm grasps, evaluated under improved force-closure constraints. Additionally, we develop a benchmark dataset containing 300 objects with approximately 30,000 grasps, evaluated in a physics simulation environment, providing a better grasp quality assessment for dual-arm grasp synthesis methods. Finally, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our dataset by training a Dual-Arm Grasp Classifier network that outperforms the stateof-the-art methods by 15%, achieving higher grasp success rates and improved generalization across objects.