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nAIve Physics

Teaching machines how the physical world behaves.

Real-world interaction data for Physical AI — starting with deformable objects and textile manipulation.

Featured dataset · Real-world garment manipulation

Our first research release pairs real human ironing demonstrations with human-verified temporal annotations and experimental interaction analysis for studying how fabric moves, slips and holds.
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12 manipulation episodes · 4 physical garments · 12/12 human-verified temporal annotations · 77 verified slip events

IRON_009 / CAPTURE 009RGB → INTERACTION STRUCTURE
Original RGB frame from the real IRON_009 ironing episode, showing the garment, iron, and operator interactionOriginal RGB
Corresponding IRON_009 experimental interaction-analysis frame with garment landmarks, iron tracking, and temporal contextInteraction analysis
Real-world demonstrationStructured interaction understanding

Dataset 001

Ironing manipulation dataset

12
Episodes
4
Garments
3
Regions
13:07
Total video

RGB analysis — experimental

From image to response inspection

RGB-derived analysis · not ground truth

IRON_001 RGB Analysis tool output showing the original sensor-captured RGB frame, experimental RGB-derived wrinkle response, and overlay together
Sensor-captured RGBderived_from_RGB responseOverlay
Experimental RGB-derived analysis.Not wrinkle ground truth.Not physical wrinkle height.Not measured geometry.

Response markers are experimental image-analysis outputs and are not validated wrinkle detections.

Data format

What you get

  1. 01Physical garment

    Real garments with recorded physical properties.

  2. 02RGB observation

    24 FPS · 848 × 478 · sensor-captured RGB.

  3. 03Metadata

    Task, region, garment, session and capture properties.

  4. 04Human annotation

    Temporal segmentation of manipulation behavior.

  5. 05Research-ready dataset

    Organized, versioned and downloadable.

MP4Video
CSVAnnotations
CSVMetadata
JSONManifest / Gold Episode structure

Release structure

4 / 12 temporally annotated
naive-physics-ironing-v0.2/
├── videos/
├── metadata/
│   ├── episodes.csv
│   └── garments.csv
├── annotations/
│   └── temporal/
├── garment_references/
├── calibration/
└── docs/

Browser workbench

Free annotation tool

Annotate and inspect manipulation video locally in your browser.

Video processing stays local in your browser.

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The real nAIve physics Free Annotation Tool workbench showing video selection, episode metadata, batch metadata fields, and the IRON_001 video player

Temporal annotation

Segment actions and sub-actions.

RGB analysis

Inspect experimental RGB-derived response.

ROI selection

Human-guided region selection.

CSV export

Export annotations and analysis.

Targeted collection

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