Datasets:
Preview release: Real-world Chinese commercial kitchen manipulation dataset
Hi everyone,
We are releasing a preview of a real-world Chinese commercial kitchen manipulation dataset from Nova Dynamics.
The dataset was collected in an operating restaurant environment in Zhongshan, Guangdong, China, with a professional chef with around 20 years of experience. The goal is to capture realistic food preparation workflows rather than lab tabletop demonstrations.
The preview pack currently includes screenshot samples from:
- Egocentric 4K video
- Side-view 1080p video
- Overhead RGB-D capture using Intel RealSense D435I
- Colorized metric depth previews from HDF5 depth data
Initial tasks include cutting and wok stir-fry. These tasks involve fine-grained hand-object interaction, tool use, bimanual coordination, and realistic workspace variation in a commercial kitchen.
Our focus is real commercial Chinese kitchen data: professional chef demonstrations, multi-view RGB-D capture, and high-skill cooking actions such as cutting and wok stir-fry.
Preview dataset:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/nova-dynamics/Chinese_Commercial_Kitchen_Manipulation_Dataset_Preview
The full dataset is not publicly hosted yet due to storage size and licensing considerations. Available upon request:
- Multi-view MP4 recordings
- Original HDF5 depth data
- RealSense raw recordings
- Optional annotations
- Possible export formats such as RLDS or LeRobot
We are also open to discussing custom collection tasks for robotics, embodied AI, imitation learning, visual action understanding, and food manipulation research.
The preview pack is released under CC-BY-NC-4.0. Commercial usage or custom data collection would require a separate agreement.
If this is relevant to your work, feel free to reach out at andy@dynamicnova.com. We would be happy to share more details, discuss evaluation samples, or hear feedback from the robotics and embodied AI community.