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A stunning piece of engineering!! 1X unveils the new humanoid hand for NEO - 25 degrees of freedom: 22 fully actuated in the fingers and palm, plus 3 at the wrist. - The DoF are distributed anatomically rather than evenly, deliberately biased toward a thumb that genuinely opposes the fingers. - In-house tendon-driven, quasi-direct-drive running low gear ratios of ~5:1 to 15:1 vs the typical 100:1–200:1. - Motors live in the forearm and pull tendons through the wrist. This keeps the hand light and its inertia low while producing high forces. Sensing - All 25 DoF are natively force-controlled and fully backdrivable. Every joint doubles as a force sensor. - Very important, closed-loop proprioception: it always knows its own pose and effort without looking. - Tactile skin across the fingertips and surfaces measuring contact and shear. This helps with adaptive gripping in real time. Safety and durability - IP68 waterproof and food-safe, so it can wash its own hands. - Compliant by construction: the low gear ratios, tendon drive, and low distal inertia let external impacts safely backdrive the fingers. It yields when hit by a hammer or caught in a drawer. - Full finger assemblies validated to millions of cycles. Manufacturing - Deep vertical integration: in-house motors, custom electronics, and tendon systems. - Hundreds built already, with capacity to produce 10,000 hands this year. "An API to the Physical World"
The Humanoid Hub1,266,053 次观看 • 9 天前
Proception has launched its first products, ProHand 1.0 and ProGlove 1.0. - 22 total DoF with 18 actuated DoF (including a 2-DoF wrist) - Tendon-driven fingers, 4 joints each - On-board control for 10 ms real-time response - Every actuator reports its full state continuously, fused with a forearm IMU - On-board real-time compute + Client SDKs - Integrated wrist camera The robot hand is wearing ProGlove 1.0, a 1.3 mm textile glove for low-latency sensing.
The Humanoid Hub189,312 次观看 • 18 天前
XPENG's next-gen IRON robot effectively crossed the uncanny valley, leading many to believe it was a human in a suit. In a follow-up event to prove it was a robot, He Xiaopeng had its leg skin cut open in front of a live audience. The robot then walked off the stage.
The Humanoid Hub2,144,503 次观看 • 8 个月前
Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla's AI lead, during a GTC discussion, highlighting the fundamental similarity in AI approaches for self-driving cars and humanoid robots: - Hierarchical decision making is useful, but it has to be done as part of the same decision-making process as lower-level controls. - We haven't seen the long tail of humanoid robotics, but Tesla has seen the long tail of self-driving, where high and low-level decisions have to be jointly made at a pretty high framerate. - Optimus's architecture is designed in a similar way, where there's a hierarchy but it's all running as part of the same model and the latencies involved in decision making are well modeled. - This architecture will scale quite well with humanoid robots. - The distinction of the decision-making levels is only in the developer's mind. For the model, it's a continuous space of decision making, where there are dials available to make them more fine or coarse. - Humanoids have more sensor modalities and higher degrees of freedom compared to self-driving, but the fundamental constraints remain the same: you need to make real-time decisions. There's obviously a hierarchy to these control signal outputs, but the lowest frequency cannot be too low, because the safety of the robot cannot depend upon things running at very low frequencies.
The Humanoid Hub669,921 次观看 • 4 个月前
This is the first time we're seeing the latest generation Boston Dynamics Atlas in motion. - Features 56 DoF, with 360° rotation in key joints - 6.2 ft tall, weighs 198 lb (90 kg) - Operating temperature: -20° to 40°C - IP67 dust and water protection - Only two unique actuators to minimize cost and complexity - A Limb can be swapped in less than 5 min.
The Humanoid Hub359,044 次观看 • 2 个月前
The contrast is striking. Tesla is inviting people to watch Optimus cheer from the sidelines at the Boston Marathon. Meanwhile, 300 humanoids from 26 Chinese OEMs actually participated in the Beijing Half Marathon. Multiple robots finished faster than the human winner, 40% navigated autonomously.
The Humanoid Hub365,507 次观看 • 3 个月前
The Beijing Humanoid Half Marathon (21.1 km) just concluded! The humanoid winner was significantly faster than the top human finisher. - 1st place: Monkey King Team – Honor Lightning robot, 50 min 26 seconds - 2nd place: Mixue Ice City Team – same Honor Lightning robot, 50m 56s - 3rd place: Spark Team – same Honor Lightning robot, 53m 01s Another Honor Lightning robot finished the fastest, in 48m 19s, but was penalized (1.2x the finish time) for being teleoperated and missed the podium. The human winner finished in 1h 07m 47s.
The Humanoid Hub364,618 次观看 • 3 个月前
CMU researchers, in collaboration with NVIDIA, present ASAP, a two-stage framework for humanoid robot agility. It pre-trains motion policies on human data, then refines them with real-world corrections using a delta action model, which adjusts for simulation mismatches.
The Humanoid Hub1,826,710 次观看 • 1 年前
$6,800 for a humanoid robot!! Unitree isn't just competing; they're resetting the entire market. The Unitree R1 Humanoid Robot is now available for pre-order on AliExpress for global buyers. Starting price of $6,806; deliveries are scheduled to begin on June 30th. 4'0" (123 cm) tall, 63.9 lb (29 kg). - R1 AIR (Base Trim): 20 Degrees of Freedom (DOF). - R1 & R1 EDU: 26 DOF (includes additional DOF in the waist and head). - R1 EDU: Only model that supports custom software installation and provides full SDK access. Optional upgrades include robotic hands and an NVIDIA Jetson Orin. The starting price applies to the base trim; pricing for the R1 and R1 EDU models has not yet been announced.
The Humanoid Hub261,553 次观看 • 3 个月前
