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Robot hands got serious. Here are four dexterous hands: 🔵 Tesla Optimus V3: 22 DOF, motors in the forearm. 🔵 BrainCo Revo 3: 21 DOF, full-palm touch sensing. 🔵 Wuji Hand: 20 DOF, motors inside each finger. 🔵 1X NEO: 22 DOF, force sensing at every joint. Which grip wins?

Robot hands got serious. Here are four dexterous hands: 🔵 Tesla Optimus V3: 22 DOF, motors in the forearm. 🔵 BrainCo Revo 3: 21 DOF, full-palm touch sensing. 🔵 Wuji Hand: 20 DOF, motors inside each finger. 🔵 1X NEO: 22 DOF, force sensing at every joint. Which grip wins?

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ANOTHER BIG CRASH AT THE ROBOT RACE! One split in half. Another caught fire.

ANOTHER BIG CRASH AT THE ROBOT RACE! One split in half. Another caught fire.

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This robot drink too much.

This robot drink too much.

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Robotic hands are getting seriously advanced. This almost feels human.

Robotic hands are getting seriously advanced. This almost feels human.

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Hooman! Come help, I got my head stuck in this thingy 😭

Hooman! Come help, I got my head stuck in this thingy 😭

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This robot scores the free kick. And then hits the SIUUUU!

This robot scores the free kick. And then hits the SIUUUU!

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Researchers built a soft floating robot for indoor interaction. It uses helium and flapping fins instead of propellers. The result is quiet, lightweight, and safe to touch. It can follow people, give reminders, and act as a study buddy. Published at ACM DIS 2026.

Researchers built a soft floating robot for indoor interaction. It uses helium and flapping fins instead of propellers. The result is quiet, lightweight, and safe to touch. It can follow people, give reminders, and act as a study buddy. Published at ACM DIS 2026.

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Imagine failing that bad! After your rival’s spectacular jump.

Imagine failing that bad! After your rival’s spectacular jump.

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Cheerleader robot went crazy during the performance. Engineers could barely stop it.

Cheerleader robot went crazy during the performance. Engineers could barely stop it.

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Big fails at standing jump competition. Btw, robots crushed the human record again! Robot record 4.83m, human record 3.73m

Big fails at standing jump competition. Btw, robots crushed the human record again! Robot record 4.83m, human record 3.73m

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Parade at the World Robot Games Even the cameraman is a robot!

Parade at the World Robot Games Even the cameraman is a robot!

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Robot running races were impressive. Obstacle races exposed their limits.

Robot running races were impressive. Obstacle races exposed their limits.

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NVIDIA just dropped a crazy new research idea. Get ready. The same next-token trick behind ChatGPT got pointed at a ragdoll. Honestly the result is unsettling. No exotic new architecture. Chop human motion into a vocabulary of tiny movement tokens. Train a plain GPT to guess the next one, decode it into muscle commands, let physics run. Then the strange part shows up. Shove the character and it catches its own step. Knock it flat and it plants a hand and gets back up. NOBODY wrote a reward for standing up. Here is why this rattles robotics people. Every humanoid team right now is buried under hand-tuned controllers, one for each little skill. 🔵 the old way: script every skill and its reward by hand 🔵 this way: pretrain ONE body on a mountain of motion and the instincts come free Falling and getting up was never programmed. It emerged. Movement is just a language you can autocomplete.

NVIDIA just dropped a crazy new research idea. Get ready. The same next-token trick behind ChatGPT got pointed at a ragdoll. Honestly the result is unsettling. No exotic new architecture. Chop human motion into a vocabulary of tiny movement tokens. Train a plain GPT to guess the next one, decode it into muscle commands, let physics run. Then the strange part shows up. Shove the character and it catches its own step. Knock it flat and it plants a hand and gets back up. NOBODY wrote a reward for standing up. Here is why this rattles robotics people. Every humanoid team right now is buried under hand-tuned controllers, one for each little skill. 🔵 the old way: script every skill and its reward by hand 🔵 this way: pretrain ONE body on a mountain of motion and the instincts come free Falling and getting up was never programmed. It emerged. Movement is just a language you can autocomplete.

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This Unitree G1 performed surgery with teleoperation. First successful surgery with a humanoid. A surgeon steered it from a console the whole time. It used real surgical tools, not custom robotic ones. The G1 completed two live gallbladder removals on pigs. The work just published in Nature.

This Unitree G1 performed surgery with teleoperation. First successful surgery with a humanoid. A surgeon steered it from a console the whole time. It used real surgical tools, not custom robotic ones. The G1 completed two live gallbladder removals on pigs. The work just published in Nature.

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Check out this crazy quadruped at WRC 2026. Forget grasshopper. It’s Clankhopper now. 🤖

Check out this crazy quadruped at WRC 2026. Forget grasshopper. It’s Clankhopper now. 🤖

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Tesla Optimus Gen 3 is entering production soon. What we know so far: 🔵 Nearly 1.8 m tall with a human-like design. 🔵 Redesigned hands with custom motors and sensors. 🔵 Vision-based AI adapted from Tesla’s driving stack. 🔵 First units will train inside the Optimus Academy.

Tesla Optimus Gen 3 is entering production soon. What we know so far: 🔵 Nearly 1.8 m tall with a human-like design. 🔵 Redesigned hands with custom motors and sensors. 🔵 Vision-based AI adapted from Tesla’s driving stack. 🔵 First units will train inside the Optimus Academy.

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Making a humanoid robot. Step by step guide. Complex, isn't it?

Making a humanoid robot. Step by step guide. Complex, isn't it?

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This robot hand can easily lift a 100 kg bar. Quite a reality check after all those dancing robots, right? Some robots are seriously strong!

This robot hand can easily lift a 100 kg bar. Quite a reality check after all those dancing robots, right? Some robots are seriously strong!

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China built a robot you can actually ride. VOGEBOT is a wheeled quadruped that can carry a human. It climbs slopes and handles rough terrain. Would you ride one?

China built a robot you can actually ride. VOGEBOT is a wheeled quadruped that can carry a human. It climbs slopes and handles rough terrain. Would you ride one?

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Humanoid robots just shut down a car factory for the first time. Hyundai workers in South Korea launched a partial strike. They fear Boston Dynamics robot Atlas could replace jobs. The humanoid labor fight has reached the factory floor.

Humanoid robots just shut down a car factory for the first time. Hyundai workers in South Korea launched a partial strike. They fear Boston Dynamics robot Atlas could replace jobs. The humanoid labor fight has reached the factory floor.

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This is how robots prepare for their dance performances.

This is how robots prepare for their dance performances.

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Forget robot dogs. China is building robot mounts. DEEP Robotics built a full-sized robot horse. Qiji X1 works like a rideable robotic mule. RunRobotics developed a centaur for hazardous industrial work. Which one is your favorite?

Forget robot dogs. China is building robot mounts. DEEP Robotics built a full-sized robot horse. Qiji X1 works like a rideable robotic mule. RunRobotics developed a centaur for hazardous industrial work. Which one is your favorite?

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Wow! Humanoids are getting dangerously athletic. Beijing Institute of Technology introduced Extreme-RGMT. It lets Unitree G1 perform backflips and aerial cartwheels. The robot can also copy extreme moves live from a human. Video speaks for itself!

Wow! Humanoids are getting dangerously athletic. Beijing Institute of Technology introduced Extreme-RGMT. It lets Unitree G1 perform backflips and aerial cartwheels. The robot can also copy extreme moves live from a human. Video speaks for itself!

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THESE ARE NOT HUMANS! Meet HokMind's Primal M1. A full-body bionic robot with a 32-DOF face. It has lifelike skin, gaze tracking and expressions. HokMind says it is built for human-like interaction. This is its first public dynamic appearance at WRC 2026.

THESE ARE NOT HUMANS! Meet HokMind's Primal M1. A full-body bionic robot with a 32-DOF face. It has lifelike skin, gaze tracking and expressions. HokMind says it is built for human-like interaction. This is its first public dynamic appearance at WRC 2026.

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