Request for Additional Download Channels for Chinese Users
I am a researcher working in the field of embodied AI in China. I greatly appreciate the IPEC team's effort in converting the OpenX dataset to LeRobot format and sharing it on Hugging Face. This dataset is extremely valuable for our research work.
Due to network restrictions, direct access to Hugging Face is blocked in mainland China. I have attempted to use the hf-mirror service, but when downloading robot datasets in LeRobot format (which consists of many small files), connections get blocked after approximately 300 download requests. This makes it practically impossible to download the complete lerobot dataset like IPEC-COMMUNITY/droid_lerobot.
Would it be possible to consider making this dataset available through alternative channels that are accessible in China? Like uploading to ModelScope (AI open-source community provided by Alibaba Cloud)?
Thank you very much for your work and contributions to the community! Your support in making this valuable dataset accessible to researchers in China would significantly benefit our research efforts in embodied AI.
Hi, I'm really sorry, but I don't have plans to do that in the near future as I'm quite busy.
One suggestion: if you have the rlds version of droid locally, I recommend following this repository and specifying the path to your local dataset to complete the conversion.
The code keeps updating with lerobot, so just follow tight to get the latest support of dataset conversion. :)
Thank you for your quick response! I understand you're busy and appreciate your suggestion.
I will try to follow the repository you mentioned and attempt the local conversion from the RLDS version to LeRobot format