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Touch alone isn’t enough. 🖐️ For robotics, tactile intelligence truly levels up when touch gains spatial meaning. At #ICRA2026, we dove into the core concept behind SaTA: Spatially-anchored Tactile Awareness for robust, dexterous manipulation. Read it here: The challenge is fundamental: a robot shouldn’t just register a touch, it...

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Robots need to feel the world to operate in it. Most manipulation policies today are tactile-blind. They either cannot interpret high-frequency tactile signals or treat them as a static channel. And the field lacks enough touch-rich datasets to train tactile-reactive policies at scale. T-Rex was built to answer both. Dantong Niu and team, advised by Jim Fan, Fei-Fei Li, Jitendra MALIK, Pieter Abbeel trevordarrell have tested whether a robot policy can react to high-frequency tactile signals the way human hands do, without giving up the generalization power of modern VLAs. The result: 65% average success rate across 12 real-world tasks. +30 absolute points over the strongest baseline. In one year, tactile VLAs have gone from promising to outperforming non-tactile baselines like pi0.5 on dexterous tasks. #Robotics #SharpaWave #Sharpa #EmbodiedAI #DexterousManipulation #TactileSensing #RobotLearning Project link:
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Robots need to feel the world to operate in it. Most manipulation policies today are tactile-blind. They either cannot interpret high-frequency tactile signals or treat them as a static channel. And the field lacks enough touch-rich datasets to train tactile-reactive policies at scale. T-Rex was built to answer both. Dantong Niu and team, advised by Jim Fan, Fei-Fei Li, Jitendra MALIK, Pieter Abbeel trevordarrell have tested whether a robot policy can react to high-frequency tactile signals the way human hands do, without giving up the generalization power of modern VLAs. The result: 65% average success rate across 12 real-world tasks. +30 absolute points over the strongest baseline. In one year, tactile VLAs have gone from promising to outperforming non-tactile baselines like pi0.5 on dexterous tasks. #Robotics #SharpaWave #Sharpa #EmbodiedAI #DexterousManipulation #TactileSensing #RobotLearning Project link:

Sharpa

12,931 views • 2 months ago

Feeling what a robot feels is becoming real! 🫰 Fluid Reality just ran its first full end-to-end touch teleoperation system, and the demo shows why high-resolution haptics might be the missing piece in robot control. A 22 mm fingertip display with 32 independently actuated “bubbles” was mapped directly to tactile sensors on a robot hand. 🫧 Three fingers streamed real-time touch data robot → human, giving the operator actual contact feedback instead of waving their hands blind, like most teleop systems today. It’s still early, but this is a real step toward dexterous ops and high-quality data for training Physical AI systems. Companies involved: Samsung Electronics, Alt-Bionics, Inc. (the robot hand), MANUS™ (hand tracking), and Sensible Robotics (fingertip sensors) Touch isn’t a nice-to-have in robotics. It’s the difference between manipulation that works in the real world P.S. Guess how many touch receptors we humans, have in our hand! :) ~~ ♻ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →
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Feeling what a robot feels is becoming real! 🫰 Fluid Reality just ran its first full end-to-end touch teleoperation system, and the demo shows why high-resolution haptics might be the missing piece in robot control. A 22 mm fingertip display with 32 independently actuated “bubbles” was mapped directly to tactile sensors on a robot hand. 🫧 Three fingers streamed real-time touch data robot → human, giving the operator actual contact feedback instead of waving their hands blind, like most teleop systems today. It’s still early, but this is a real step toward dexterous ops and high-quality data for training Physical AI systems. Companies involved: Samsung Electronics, Alt-Bionics, Inc. (the robot hand), MANUS™ (hand tracking), and Sensible Robotics (fingertip sensors) Touch isn’t a nice-to-have in robotics. It’s the difference between manipulation that works in the real world P.S. Guess how many touch receptors we humans, have in our hand! :) ~~ ♻ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

Lukas Ziegler

46,927 views • 9 months ago

Today at Meta FAIR we’re announcing three new cutting-edge developments in robotics and touch perception — and releasing a collection of artifacts to empower the community to build on this work. Details on all of this new work ➡️ 1️⃣ Meta Sparsh is the first general-purpose encoder for vision-based tactile sensing that works across many tactile sensors and many tasks. Trained on 460K+ tactile images using self-supervised learning. 2️⃣ Meta Digit 360 is a breakthrough artificial fingertip-based tactile sensor, equipped with 18+ sensing features to deliver detailed touch data with human-level precision and touch-sensing capabilities. 3️⃣ Meta Digit Plexus is a standardized platform for robotic sensor connections and interactions. It provides a hardware-software solution to integrate tactile sensors on a single robot hand and enables seamless data collection, control and analysis over a single cable. The potential impact of expanding capabilities and components like these for the open source community ranges from medical research to supply chain, manufacturing and much more. We’re excited to continue this work with the broader community.
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Today at Meta FAIR we’re announcing three new cutting-edge developments in robotics and touch perception — and releasing a collection of artifacts to empower the community to build on this work. Details on all of this new work ➡️ 1️⃣ Meta Sparsh is the first general-purpose encoder for vision-based tactile sensing that works across many tactile sensors and many tasks. Trained on 460K+ tactile images using self-supervised learning. 2️⃣ Meta Digit 360 is a breakthrough artificial fingertip-based tactile sensor, equipped with 18+ sensing features to deliver detailed touch data with human-level precision and touch-sensing capabilities. 3️⃣ Meta Digit Plexus is a standardized platform for robotic sensor connections and interactions. It provides a hardware-software solution to integrate tactile sensors on a single robot hand and enables seamless data collection, control and analysis over a single cable. The potential impact of expanding capabilities and components like these for the open source community ranges from medical research to supply chain, manufacturing and much more. We’re excited to continue this work with the broader community.

AI at Meta

453,518 views • 1 year ago

The sense of touch is the most criminally under-explored modality in robotics. Imagine doing sleight of hand wearing thick oven mitts. That's exactly how a robot feels today if it were alive. A magnetic piece snapping into place, a paper cup peeling out of a stack, a USB negotiating its way into the port - all invisible to the camera. Learning how to feel must be a full-stack co-designed effort. We are open-sourcing a principled methodology called "T-Rex": 1. Tactile as first-class citizen of the model. Our mixture-of-transformer runs two clocks asynchronously: a slow visuomotor expert plans the motion, and a fast tactile expert refines it in real time with high-frequency corrections at 4 "touch ticks" per vision tick. Forces change faster than frames arrive, so the architecture had to as well. 2. Open data. The largest tactile dataset ever released to our knowledge: a 50-hour (~5,500 episodes) high-quality, carefully synchronized robot play corpus, collected on SOTA tactile hand hardware with 22 degrees of freedom. Available today on HuggingFace! 3. Training recipe: T-Rex extends our prior work, EgoScale. Human egocentric videos for pretraining, a diverse dose of tactile robot play for mid-training. Our experiments show this bridges contact-free pretraining to contact-rich manipulation remarkably well. Pixels are cheap and everywhere, but they run out of steam at the moment of contact. Tactile will carry the last mile. The next scaling curve will be measured in hours of touch. T-Rex is a great collaboration between NVIDIA and Berkeley: 🧵
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The sense of touch is the most criminally under-explored modality in robotics. Imagine doing sleight of hand wearing thick oven mitts. That's exactly how a robot feels today if it were alive. A magnetic piece snapping into place, a paper cup peeling out of a stack, a USB negotiating its way into the port - all invisible to the camera. Learning how to feel must be a full-stack co-designed effort. We are open-sourcing a principled methodology called "T-Rex": 1. Tactile as first-class citizen of the model. Our mixture-of-transformer runs two clocks asynchronously: a slow visuomotor expert plans the motion, and a fast tactile expert refines it in real time with high-frequency corrections at 4 "touch ticks" per vision tick. Forces change faster than frames arrive, so the architecture had to as well. 2. Open data. The largest tactile dataset ever released to our knowledge: a 50-hour (~5,500 episodes) high-quality, carefully synchronized robot play corpus, collected on SOTA tactile hand hardware with 22 degrees of freedom. Available today on HuggingFace! 3. Training recipe: T-Rex extends our prior work, EgoScale. Human egocentric videos for pretraining, a diverse dose of tactile robot play for mid-training. Our experiments show this bridges contact-free pretraining to contact-rich manipulation remarkably well. Pixels are cheap and everywhere, but they run out of steam at the moment of contact. Tactile will carry the last mile. The next scaling curve will be measured in hours of touch. T-Rex is a great collaboration between NVIDIA and Berkeley: 🧵

Jim Fan

172,307 views • 25 days ago

A policy that teaches robot hands to touch things the way humans do... not just grab and move, but feel and adjust in real time. Robot manipulation research often stops at picking up objects and placing them. CGP goes further: it handles tasks like opening jars, flipping objects in-hand, wiping dishes, and grasping fragile eggs, the kind of dexterous, contact-rich skills that require constant micro-adjustments based on what the fingers are actually feeling. The robot doesn't just see what it's doing; it predicts what contact should feel like at each step, then checks whether reality matches the prediction. If a finger is slipping, the policy knows before the object drops. Works on real robot hands (both 4-finger and 5-finger designs) with tactile sensors embedded in the fingertips Robust to visual distractions! The robot keeps flipping a box correctly even when the camera view is disrupted, because it's grounding decisions in touch, not just vision. Baseline policies without contact grounding fail in predictable ways: slipping mid-task, incomplete motions, loss of grasp, CGP avoids these This is a meaningful step toward robots that can handle the physical world with the kind of reliable, adaptive grip that humans take for granted. Relevant for manufacturing, logistics, assistive robotics, and anywhere fragile or irregular objects need to be handled carefully. Published at RSS 2026, developed with Meta Reality Labs Research. Thanks for sharing, Zhengtong Xu / Zhengtong Xu ——- Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free:
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Ilir Aliu

12,769 views • 3 months ago

Who can say no to a humanoid robot that can actually feel a hug? 🤖 JQ Industries just built a fabric-based electronic skin for Unitree G1 — covering the torso, hands, and feet. This is not about appearance. It’s about giving robots real tactile sensing and pressure feedback. According to the company, the system includes tactile gloves, upper-body skin, and foot sensors. That means the robot can feel contact through its hands, detect pressure across its body, and use foot feedback to adjust balance. This is the missing layer in most humanoids. Vision alone can’t handle physical interaction. Robots need touch to grip safely, react to humans, and stay stable in real-world environments. JQ says its fiber sensors can detect forces as low as 0.01N, handle up to 3500kPa, and bend below 0.1mm radius. The system can also integrate with Isaac Sim, making tactile data usable for training and deployment. Unitree G1 is already built for manipulation and control — this adds the sensing layer it lacked. JQ says it’s now working with multiple humanoid companies, with some systems already shipping at scale. This is what happens when robots stop just seeing the world — and start physically feeling it.
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Who can say no to a humanoid robot that can actually feel a hug? 🤖 JQ Industries just built a fabric-based electronic skin for Unitree G1 — covering the torso, hands, and feet. This is not about appearance. It’s about giving robots real tactile sensing and pressure feedback. According to the company, the system includes tactile gloves, upper-body skin, and foot sensors. That means the robot can feel contact through its hands, detect pressure across its body, and use foot feedback to adjust balance. This is the missing layer in most humanoids. Vision alone can’t handle physical interaction. Robots need touch to grip safely, react to humans, and stay stable in real-world environments. JQ says its fiber sensors can detect forces as low as 0.01N, handle up to 3500kPa, and bend below 0.1mm radius. The system can also integrate with Isaac Sim, making tactile data usable for training and deployment. Unitree G1 is already built for manipulation and control — this adds the sensing layer it lacked. JQ says it’s now working with multiple humanoid companies, with some systems already shipping at scale. This is what happens when robots stop just seeing the world — and start physically feeling it.

RoboHub🤖

10,952 views • 5 months ago

Jeff Bezos tries the Tactile Telerobot. The Tactile Telerobot is a haptic telerobotic system capable of transmitting realistic touch feedback to an operator located anywhere in the world. Developed through a joint collaboration between Shadow Robot Company, HaptX, and SynTouch, the project’s initial research and development was funded by All Nippon Airways. -- Robotics teams are challenged to turn human-like dexterity from theory into real-world systems. While dexterous manipulation promises major impact across industries, a gap remains between capability and deployment. Shadow Robot helps close this gap through a dexterity-first, structured engagement model that transforms ideas into prototypes and scalable solutions. The "Trusted Hands: Engineering Collaboration with Shadow Robot" whitepaper highlights how collaboration and repeatable frameworks enable organizations to overcome barriers and advance dexterous robotics in new domains. Get it here: #robotics #robots #engineering #technology
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Jeff Bezos tries the Tactile Telerobot. The Tactile Telerobot is a haptic telerobotic system capable of transmitting realistic touch feedback to an operator located anywhere in the world. Developed through a joint collaboration between Shadow Robot Company, HaptX, and SynTouch, the project’s initial research and development was funded by All Nippon Airways. -- Robotics teams are challenged to turn human-like dexterity from theory into real-world systems. While dexterous manipulation promises major impact across industries, a gap remains between capability and deployment. Shadow Robot helps close this gap through a dexterity-first, structured engagement model that transforms ideas into prototypes and scalable solutions. The "Trusted Hands: Engineering Collaboration with Shadow Robot" whitepaper highlights how collaboration and repeatable frameworks enable organizations to overcome barriers and advance dexterous robotics in new domains. Get it here: #robotics #robots #engineering #technology

Wevolver

31,354 views • 7 months ago

We believe we’re the first robotics company to demonstrate a robot peeling an apple with dual dexterous human-like hands. This breakthrough closes a key gap in robotics, achieving bimanual, contact-rich manipulation and moving far beyond the limits of simple grippers. 🧵↓ Today’s AI models (VLMs) are excellent at perception but struggle with action. Controlling high-degree-of-freedom hands for tasks like this is incredibly complex, and precise finger-level teleoperation is nearly impossible for humans. Our first step was a shared-autonomy system: rather than controlling every finger, the operator triggers pre-learned skills like a “rotate apple or tennis ball” primitive via a keyboard press or pedal. This makes scalable data collection and RL training possible. How does the AI manage this? We created "MoDE-VLA" (Mixture of Dexterous Experts). It fuses vision, language, force, and touch data by using a team of specialist "experts," making control in high-dimensional spaces stable and effective. The combination of these two innovations allows for seamless, contact-rich manipulation. The human provides high-level guidance, and the robot executes the complex in-hand coordination required. This work paves the way for robots that can safely handle delicate tasks in human environments. Want the full technical details? 📄 Read the full research paper: Visit us at NVIDIA GTC Booth #1838, Hall 3 to learn more! #Robotics #AI #DexterousManipulation #VLA #NVIDIAGTC Nancy Villicaña NVIDIA GTC
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We believe we’re the first robotics company to demonstrate a robot peeling an apple with dual dexterous human-like hands. This breakthrough closes a key gap in robotics, achieving bimanual, contact-rich manipulation and moving far beyond the limits of simple grippers. 🧵↓ Today’s AI models (VLMs) are excellent at perception but struggle with action. Controlling high-degree-of-freedom hands for tasks like this is incredibly complex, and precise finger-level teleoperation is nearly impossible for humans. Our first step was a shared-autonomy system: rather than controlling every finger, the operator triggers pre-learned skills like a “rotate apple or tennis ball” primitive via a keyboard press or pedal. This makes scalable data collection and RL training possible. How does the AI manage this? We created "MoDE-VLA" (Mixture of Dexterous Experts). It fuses vision, language, force, and touch data by using a team of specialist "experts," making control in high-dimensional spaces stable and effective. The combination of these two innovations allows for seamless, contact-rich manipulation. The human provides high-level guidance, and the robot executes the complex in-hand coordination required. This work paves the way for robots that can safely handle delicate tasks in human environments. Want the full technical details? 📄 Read the full research paper: Visit us at NVIDIA GTC Booth #1838, Hall 3 to learn more! #Robotics #AI #DexterousManipulation #VLA #NVIDIAGTC Nancy Villicaña NVIDIA GTC

Sharpa

20,429 views • 6 months ago

Awesome! This is literally a superhuman hand. 🤖✋ ChangingTek Robotics just dropped a dexterous hand that actually morphs between left and right hand configurations on the fly. It uses cable-driven tech to pull off shapes and reverse bends that human hands can't even dream of doing. The power is real too, with a 50N grip force and 10N at the fingertips while staying precise within 0.1N. It is kind of like a rigid octopus, meaning it is tough enough to crank a wrench or screwdriver but smooth enough to grab a drink. Having this much range of motion in a single hand basically doubles the efficiency of any robotic arm in tight spots. Source: ChangingTek Robotics #Robot #Humanoid #Robotics #AI #EmbodiedAI #PhysicalAI #ChangingTek #DexterousHand #Bionics
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Awesome! This is literally a superhuman hand. 🤖✋ ChangingTek Robotics just dropped a dexterous hand that actually morphs between left and right hand configurations on the fly. It uses cable-driven tech to pull off shapes and reverse bends that human hands can't even dream of doing. The power is real too, with a 50N grip force and 10N at the fingertips while staying precise within 0.1N. It is kind of like a rigid octopus, meaning it is tough enough to crank a wrench or screwdriver but smooth enough to grab a drink. Having this much range of motion in a single hand basically doubles the efficiency of any robotic arm in tight spots. Source: ChangingTek Robotics #Robot #Humanoid #Robotics #AI #EmbodiedAI #PhysicalAI #ChangingTek #DexterousHand #Bionics

RoboHub🤖

13,855 views • 6 months ago

TARS has made some big announcements at ICRA 2026. DexHand - A dexterous hand with 1:1 replication of human metacarpal and finger structure, multi-axis thumb opposition - Quasi-direct-drive + backdrivable joints, 21 degrees of freedom - All 26 ASL letter signs reproduced at high precision -0.05mm fingertip tactile sensing - Data. Model. Hand. Fused into one embodied AI-native dexterous hand. OmniVTA with TacForeSight A visuo-tactile world model for general-use, paired with TacForeSight, a force-guided technology that not only allows robots to understand contact but also enables them to predict contact before it happens. - Semantic touch ("slippery," "rough," "soft," "hard") enabling texture-based material cognition. - Operates inside a real-time closed loop - Contact state prediction and reaction at the microsecond scale, faster than human AWE 3.0 - Claimed to be the world's leading general-purpose embodied foundation model for real-world work - A1 robot packing demo as the showcase: long-horizon, bimanual, with autonomous error recovery and end-to-end imitation learning - Set a Guinness World Record in March 2026 for "Most sub-millimeter wire harness assembled by a robot in one hour" - SenseHub data acquisition suite captures human experience data to train AWE 3.0
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TARS has made some big announcements at ICRA 2026. DexHand - A dexterous hand with 1:1 replication of human metacarpal and finger structure, multi-axis thumb opposition - Quasi-direct-drive + backdrivable joints, 21 degrees of freedom - All 26 ASL letter signs reproduced at high precision -0.05mm fingertip tactile sensing - Data. Model. Hand. Fused into one embodied AI-native dexterous hand. OmniVTA with TacForeSight A visuo-tactile world model for general-use, paired with TacForeSight, a force-guided technology that not only allows robots to understand contact but also enables them to predict contact before it happens. - Semantic touch ("slippery," "rough," "soft," "hard") enabling texture-based material cognition. - Operates inside a real-time closed loop - Contact state prediction and reaction at the microsecond scale, faster than human AWE 3.0 - Claimed to be the world's leading general-purpose embodied foundation model for real-world work - A1 robot packing demo as the showcase: long-horizon, bimanual, with autonomous error recovery and end-to-end imitation learning - Set a Guinness World Record in March 2026 for "Most sub-millimeter wire harness assembled by a robot in one hour" - SenseHub data acquisition suite captures human experience data to train AWE 3.0

The Humanoid Hub

11,322 views • 3 months ago

NEW ROBOT BENCHMARK: If your robot can do Origami, it can do anything! Called The Robotic Origami Challenge, it is a dexterous-manipulation competition and benchmark held at IROS 2026, organized by 13 co-organizers with the Nippon Origami Association as judge and task curator -> pretty cool to have them on board imho. The evaluation consists of single task: a traditional Japanese paper airplane, in exactly six folds, from a 15×15 cm sheet of ≥60 gsm paper, on a competition-supplied standardized rig (bimanual arms + Sharpa Hands), both remotely and on-site. Teams bring policies, not hardware. An "Origami Grand Master" declares pass/fail on crease accuracy, structural fidelity, symmetry and paper integrity. Among passes, faster folds rank higher, with a 10-minute-per-attempt ceiling and flight explicitly irrelevant to the score. -> I find it interesting how they chose to evaluate the task. Quality is a binary pass or fail, therefore speed becomes the only thing graded here. Speed is currently the bottleneck in dexterous manipulation though, so this choice makes sense. I wonder whether there could be finer ways to grade the qaulity of such a creative task though. When it comes to data, registered teams get 500+ teleoperation episodes (six camera streams, 65-D joint state/action, 10-fingertip 6-axis tactile), an NVIDIA Isaac Sim environment with thin-shell paper physics (plastic creasing + fold memory), digital twins of every partner hand, and a remote eval lab (upload a policy, queue an eval, get scored). Still, I think it is a great dexterity benchmark the field badly needs, it supplies the hardware, an outside human judges, and the pass criterion is externally defined -> all three degrees of freedom are checked! Neutral measurement layer, here we go! The task is engineered to be un-gameable and to isolate pure dexterity. A known figure, exactly six folds, judged on creases, with flight explicitly declared irrelevant (the latter makes sense to me). Therefore, this underlines the goal to focus on dexterity, not task-selection or other strategies. I really like origami as an ideal controlled dexterity task: deterministic goal, deformable medium, sequential, bimanual, precision-bound. I am just not quite satisfied again by the binary pass or fail, I think quality of execution could be finely graded! But again, I understand this is not the goal yet. Also interesting to see the Sharpa Hands as de facto standard for everyone. Total land-grab that anoints Sharpa as the reference dexterous hand, also featured in Google's Gemini Robotics 2. By providing the hardware, the benchmark measures software while quietly making "good on Sharpa" the definition of good, and Sharpa gets real world data and feedback as a bonus. That's smart, the data flywheel starts spinning. The provided dataset is the richest tactile-manipulation corpus I have seen yet: 10-fingertip 6-axis tactile, plus plastic creasing and fold memory. 500+ teleop episodes with six camera streams, 65-D joint state/action, and ten fingertip 6-axis tactile sensors. The force/tactile channel are parts of the the benchmark's data, this is the first time I see this. Credits where it's due: organizers include Yang Gao, Noriaki Hirose, Steve Xie, Chris Paxton, Jiafei Duan, Michael Cho - Rbt/Acc, Michael Yuan, Haoquan Fang, and others.
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NEW ROBOT BENCHMARK: If your robot can do Origami, it can do anything! Called The Robotic Origami Challenge, it is a dexterous-manipulation competition and benchmark held at IROS 2026, organized by 13 co-organizers with the Nippon Origami Association as judge and task curator -> pretty cool to have them on board imho. The evaluation consists of single task: a traditional Japanese paper airplane, in exactly six folds, from a 15×15 cm sheet of ≥60 gsm paper, on a competition-supplied standardized rig (bimanual arms + Sharpa Hands), both remotely and on-site. Teams bring policies, not hardware. An "Origami Grand Master" declares pass/fail on crease accuracy, structural fidelity, symmetry and paper integrity. Among passes, faster folds rank higher, with a 10-minute-per-attempt ceiling and flight explicitly irrelevant to the score. -> I find it interesting how they chose to evaluate the task. Quality is a binary pass or fail, therefore speed becomes the only thing graded here. Speed is currently the bottleneck in dexterous manipulation though, so this choice makes sense. I wonder whether there could be finer ways to grade the qaulity of such a creative task though. When it comes to data, registered teams get 500+ teleoperation episodes (six camera streams, 65-D joint state/action, 10-fingertip 6-axis tactile), an NVIDIA Isaac Sim environment with thin-shell paper physics (plastic creasing + fold memory), digital twins of every partner hand, and a remote eval lab (upload a policy, queue an eval, get scored). Still, I think it is a great dexterity benchmark the field badly needs, it supplies the hardware, an outside human judges, and the pass criterion is externally defined -> all three degrees of freedom are checked! Neutral measurement layer, here we go! The task is engineered to be un-gameable and to isolate pure dexterity. A known figure, exactly six folds, judged on creases, with flight explicitly declared irrelevant (the latter makes sense to me). Therefore, this underlines the goal to focus on dexterity, not task-selection or other strategies. I really like origami as an ideal controlled dexterity task: deterministic goal, deformable medium, sequential, bimanual, precision-bound. I am just not quite satisfied again by the binary pass or fail, I think quality of execution could be finely graded! But again, I understand this is not the goal yet. Also interesting to see the Sharpa Hands as de facto standard for everyone. Total land-grab that anoints Sharpa as the reference dexterous hand, also featured in Google's Gemini Robotics 2. By providing the hardware, the benchmark measures software while quietly making "good on Sharpa" the definition of good, and Sharpa gets real world data and feedback as a bonus. That's smart, the data flywheel starts spinning. The provided dataset is the richest tactile-manipulation corpus I have seen yet: 10-fingertip 6-axis tactile, plus plastic creasing and fold memory. 500+ teleop episodes with six camera streams, 65-D joint state/action, and ten fingertip 6-axis tactile sensors. The force/tactile channel are parts of the the benchmark's data, this is the first time I see this. Credits where it's due: organizers include Yang Gao, Noriaki Hirose, Steve Xie, Chris Paxton, Jiafei Duan, Michael Cho - Rbt/Acc, Michael Yuan, Haoquan Fang, and others.

Léo

28,718 views • 1 month ago

We are back. After one year of quiet building. Introducing GENE-26.5, our first robotic brain that takes a major step toward human-level capability. For years, robotics has struggled to learn from the world’s largest and valuable data source: Humans. Solving it means rethinking the whole stack from the ground up: - A robotics-native foundation model. - A 1:1 human-like robotic hand. - A noninvasive data collection glove for motion, force, and touch. - A simulator that turns weeks of experiments into minutes. GENE-26.5 is trained across language, vision, proprioception, tactile, and action. We designed a set of tasks to test how far we can go with this new paradigm. Fully autonomous, 1x speed, one model, same weights. (Enjoy with sound on) We are approaching the endgame for robotics. And this is just a beginning.
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We are back. After one year of quiet building. Introducing GENE-26.5, our first robotic brain that takes a major step toward human-level capability. For years, robotics has struggled to learn from the world’s largest and valuable data source: Humans. Solving it means rethinking the whole stack from the ground up: - A robotics-native foundation model. - A 1:1 human-like robotic hand. - A noninvasive data collection glove for motion, force, and touch. - A simulator that turns weeks of experiments into minutes. GENE-26.5 is trained across language, vision, proprioception, tactile, and action. We designed a set of tasks to test how far we can go with this new paradigm. Fully autonomous, 1x speed, one model, same weights. (Enjoy with sound on) We are approaching the endgame for robotics. And this is just a beginning.

Genesis AI

2,738,664 views • 4 months ago

Modern AI is confined to the digital world. At Skild AI, we are building towards AGI for the real world, unconstrained by robot type or task — a single, omni-bodied brain. Today, we are sharing our journey, starting with early milestones, with more to come in the weeks ahead. Our Mission: Artificial General Intelligence grounded in the physical world. We believe AGI that can truly understand and reason in the real world can only be built through grounding in the physical world. Our Vision: Any robot, Any task, One brain. We tackle robotics in its full generality – building a continually improving, omni-bodied brain that can control any hardware for any task. Who are we? A passionate group of scientists & engineers driven by our shared vision. We have been researching AI and robotics for more than a decade. Our team includes pioneers of self-supervised learning, curiosity-driven exploration, end-to-end sim2real for visual locomotion, dexterous manipulation, learning from human videos, robot parkour, and many more. Many of these works have won awards at top-tier AI and Robotics conferences. Our team has also built production-ready systems at Anduril, Tesla, Nvidia, Meta, Kitty Hawk, Google, Everyday Robotics, and Amazon. Join us in our mission to build the robot brains of tomorrow.
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Modern AI is confined to the digital world. At Skild AI, we are building towards AGI for the real world, unconstrained by robot type or task — a single, omni-bodied brain. Today, we are sharing our journey, starting with early milestones, with more to come in the weeks ahead. Our Mission: Artificial General Intelligence grounded in the physical world. We believe AGI that can truly understand and reason in the real world can only be built through grounding in the physical world. Our Vision: Any robot, Any task, One brain. We tackle robotics in its full generality – building a continually improving, omni-bodied brain that can control any hardware for any task. Who are we? A passionate group of scientists & engineers driven by our shared vision. We have been researching AI and robotics for more than a decade. Our team includes pioneers of self-supervised learning, curiosity-driven exploration, end-to-end sim2real for visual locomotion, dexterous manipulation, learning from human videos, robot parkour, and many more. Many of these works have won awards at top-tier AI and Robotics conferences. Our team has also built production-ready systems at Anduril, Tesla, Nvidia, Meta, Kitty Hawk, Google, Everyday Robotics, and Amazon. Join us in our mission to build the robot brains of tomorrow.

Skild AI

385,623 views • 1 year ago

Open-source magnetic tactile sensor for $5! 🧲 Researchers introduced a magnetic tactile sensor that's low-cost, and easy to fabricate, democratizing tactile sensing for robotics. Operating in unstructured environments like homes and offices requires robots to sense forces during physical interaction. Yet the lack of a versatile, accessible tactile sensor has led to fragmented solutions and often force-unaware, sensorless approaches. Building an eFlesh sensor requires four components: a hobbyist 3D printer, off-the-shelf magnets (less than $5), a CAD model, and a magnetometer circuit board. The sensor is 3D printed with magnets embedded in the middle layer. Based on chosen mechanical properties, magnets displace in response to contact forces, measured by a magnetometer underneath. An open-source design tool converts simple OBJ/STL files into 3D-printable STLs. This enables application-specific sensors for robot hands, grippers, quadruped feet, and more. Slip detection generalizes to unseen objects with 95% accuracy. Visual-tactile control policies improve manipulation by 40% over vision-only baselines, achieving 90% success on precise tasks like plug insertion and credit card swiping. All design files, code, trained models, and conversion tools are openly available. Project page: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →
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Open-source magnetic tactile sensor for $5! 🧲 Researchers introduced a magnetic tactile sensor that's low-cost, and easy to fabricate, democratizing tactile sensing for robotics. Operating in unstructured environments like homes and offices requires robots to sense forces during physical interaction. Yet the lack of a versatile, accessible tactile sensor has led to fragmented solutions and often force-unaware, sensorless approaches. Building an eFlesh sensor requires four components: a hobbyist 3D printer, off-the-shelf magnets (less than $5), a CAD model, and a magnetometer circuit board. The sensor is 3D printed with magnets embedded in the middle layer. Based on chosen mechanical properties, magnets displace in response to contact forces, measured by a magnetometer underneath. An open-source design tool converts simple OBJ/STL files into 3D-printable STLs. This enables application-specific sensors for robot hands, grippers, quadruped feet, and more. Slip detection generalizes to unseen objects with 95% accuracy. Visual-tactile control policies improve manipulation by 40% over vision-only baselines, achieving 90% success on precise tasks like plug insertion and credit card swiping. All design files, code, trained models, and conversion tools are openly available. Project page: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

Lukas Ziegler

289,657 views • 4 months ago

A lot of robot learning pipelines treat embodiment mismatch as a software problem. Collect data with one device, retarget the motion to another robot, and try to deal with the differences later. TwinDEX flips that idea around. This system is from a Chinese robotics company called X Square. Instead of starting with a generic data-collection device, the team co-designs a wearable three-finger end-effector and a robotic hand as two sides of the same learning system. They align the things that actually matter during manipulation: joint structure, link proportions, contact geometry, surface properties, visual appearance, sensing, and timing. That matters because dexterous manipulation is much more than matching hand poses. A few millimeters of contact error or a different force relationship can completely change how a task is executed. In the collection evaluation, TwinDEX delivered up to 5.3 times the effective throughput of on-robot teleoperation. It’s a useful reminder that scaling robot learning may not only be about bigger models and more data. Sometimes the hardware collecting the data is part of the data problem itself.
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A lot of robot learning pipelines treat embodiment mismatch as a software problem. Collect data with one device, retarget the motion to another robot, and try to deal with the differences later. TwinDEX flips that idea around. This system is from a Chinese robotics company called X Square. Instead of starting with a generic data-collection device, the team co-designs a wearable three-finger end-effector and a robotic hand as two sides of the same learning system. They align the things that actually matter during manipulation: joint structure, link proportions, contact geometry, surface properties, visual appearance, sensing, and timing. That matters because dexterous manipulation is much more than matching hand poses. A few millimeters of contact error or a different force relationship can completely change how a task is executed. In the collection evaluation, TwinDEX delivered up to 5.3 times the effective throughput of on-robot teleoperation. It’s a useful reminder that scaling robot learning may not only be about bigger models and more data. Sometimes the hardware collecting the data is part of the data problem itself.

Alamin

48,112 views • 13 days ago

Touch: A Game-Changer in Dexterity for Robots You can’t be responsive to the world if you can’t feel it. That’s true for people—and it's just as true for robots. We’re zeroed in on a practical, yet innovative, approach to creating general purpose robots designed to perform physical work. And that means hands, powered not just by vision, but by touch. Vision alone falls short. There are many instances where our vision is obstructed while performing work tasks–like grabbing items out of a bin–you lose line of sight. You need tactile intelligence—texture, pressure, contact—with real-time feedback to move faster, smarter, and with confidence. Watch a full explainer video on Sanctuary AI’s latest touch sensors on our blog: #Robotics #AI #HumanoidRobots #Dexterity #TactileSensing #SanctuaryAI
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Touch: A Game-Changer in Dexterity for Robots You can’t be responsive to the world if you can’t feel it. That’s true for people—and it's just as true for robots. We’re zeroed in on a practical, yet innovative, approach to creating general purpose robots designed to perform physical work. And that means hands, powered not just by vision, but by touch. Vision alone falls short. There are many instances where our vision is obstructed while performing work tasks–like grabbing items out of a bin–you lose line of sight. You need tactile intelligence—texture, pressure, contact—with real-time feedback to move faster, smarter, and with confidence. Watch a full explainer video on Sanctuary AI’s latest touch sensors on our blog: #Robotics #AI #HumanoidRobots #Dexterity #TactileSensing #SanctuaryAI

Sanctuary AI

53,293 views • 1 year ago

Shanghai MATRIX ROBOTICS has released a video of its new generation general-purpose humanoid robot: MATRIX-3. Much more compact than the first generation, without a protruding "rear end," it features an impressive futuristic design, 27-DOF dexterous hand with tendon-driven joints, 3D soft fabric bionic skin (claimed to have tactile sensing), and incorporates a new neural network that allows for zero-shot learning, enabling it to perform tasks in complex environments. It is planned for use in general scenarios such as manufacturing plants, logistics warehouses, and retail supermarkets. However, this is currently just a video, and its actual performance remains to be seen, especially the rapid, sensitive, and free movements of the hands as shown in the video: this would truly be a huge breakthrough.
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Shanghai MATRIX ROBOTICS has released a video of its new generation general-purpose humanoid robot: MATRIX-3. Much more compact than the first generation, without a protruding "rear end," it features an impressive futuristic design, 27-DOF dexterous hand with tendon-driven joints, 3D soft fabric bionic skin (claimed to have tactile sensing), and incorporates a new neural network that allows for zero-shot learning, enabling it to perform tasks in complex environments. It is planned for use in general scenarios such as manufacturing plants, logistics warehouses, and retail supermarkets. However, this is currently just a video, and its actual performance remains to be seen, especially the rapid, sensitive, and free movements of the hands as shown in the video: this would truly be a huge breakthrough.

CyberRobo

192,751 views • 8 months ago

🚨 READ THIS CAREFULLY The S&P 500 is entering the most dangerous part of the pattern. We are currently at point 6. The final all-time high zone. This is the phase where everyone thinks the worst is over. It isn’t. This is where the market turns back. This is a 7 point structure. And so far, it has followed the script perfectly. 1 → First support touch. 2 → First rejection from upper resistance. 3 → Second support touch. 4 → Second rejection. 5 → Panic flush into lower support. 6 → Final all-time high and reversal zone. Now comes 7. That is not the start of the dip. That is already the target zone after the reversal. And this is where the real damage starts. If this structure keeps playing out, the S&P 500 is heading toward 5,200 to 5,300. That is where this pattern completes. We are not there yet. Narratives will break there. Bulls will give up there. And most people will only realize it when the dump is already deep. This is exactly why I keep saying the market is much weaker than it looks. The rally is not strength. It is the final squeeze before the next leg down. I’ve studied macro for 10 years and I called almost every major market top, including the October BTC ATH. Follow and turn notifications on. I’ll post the warning BEFORE it hits the headlines.
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🚨 READ THIS CAREFULLY The S&P 500 is entering the most dangerous part of the pattern. We are currently at point 6. The final all-time high zone. This is the phase where everyone thinks the worst is over. It isn’t. This is where the market turns back. This is a 7 point structure. And so far, it has followed the script perfectly. 1 → First support touch. 2 → First rejection from upper resistance. 3 → Second support touch. 4 → Second rejection. 5 → Panic flush into lower support. 6 → Final all-time high and reversal zone. Now comes 7. That is not the start of the dip. That is already the target zone after the reversal. And this is where the real damage starts. If this structure keeps playing out, the S&P 500 is heading toward 5,200 to 5,300. That is where this pattern completes. We are not there yet. Narratives will break there. Bulls will give up there. And most people will only realize it when the dump is already deep. This is exactly why I keep saying the market is much weaker than it looks. The rally is not strength. It is the final squeeze before the next leg down. I’ve studied macro for 10 years and I called almost every major market top, including the October BTC ATH. Follow and turn notifications on. I’ll post the warning BEFORE it hits the headlines.

Wimar.X

57,995 views • 3 months ago

Jason Ma reveals the first true scaling law in robotics: robots trained on 1 million hours of first-person human video predictably get better without ever seeing robot data "Yesterday we announced our new flagship robot foundation model called Dyna-2. It's very significant for the entire field for many different reasons. First of all, it's the first robot foundation model trained on at least one million hours of data. That in itself is a very challenging infrastructure challenge." "What we demonstrated is that even if the one million hours of data is entirely first-person video of humans doing manipulation tasks, we actually see scaling law for transferring to robot embodiments that the model has never seen before." "By training on more human data, we actually see predictable performance improvement on robots. That's a big deal because the biggest challenge facing robot foundation models is that we don't have enough data." "Unlike language models, there are just not enough robotics data out there, and it's very difficult to collect these robot data. Only by passively observing humans doing things can we scale this kind of data, and this is the first time we showed there is a lot of improvement that can transfer." Jason Ma Dyna Robotics
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Jason Ma reveals the first true scaling law in robotics: robots trained on 1 million hours of first-person human video predictably get better without ever seeing robot data "Yesterday we announced our new flagship robot foundation model called Dyna-2. It's very significant for the entire field for many different reasons. First of all, it's the first robot foundation model trained on at least one million hours of data. That in itself is a very challenging infrastructure challenge." "What we demonstrated is that even if the one million hours of data is entirely first-person video of humans doing manipulation tasks, we actually see scaling law for transferring to robot embodiments that the model has never seen before." "By training on more human data, we actually see predictable performance improvement on robots. That's a big deal because the biggest challenge facing robot foundation models is that we don't have enough data." "Unlike language models, there are just not enough robotics data out there, and it's very difficult to collect these robot data. Only by passively observing humans doing things can we scale this kind of data, and this is the first time we showed there is a lot of improvement that can transfer." Jason Ma Dyna Robotics

MTS

17,637 views • 1 month ago

Xynova just launched Flex 2, its second-gen hybrid dexterous hand — and Xiaomi is already on the cap table. 🤖✋ The spec sheet is sharp: 23 DOF, 400g palm, ±0.1mm repeatability, 0.05N force control, 12kg single-hand grasp load, and multimodal sensing for adaptive grasping and slip detection. Xynova is not only building a robotic hand. It is building the manipulation stack around it: micro linear actuators, joint modules, sensing, control, and developer-facing integration. The Xiaomi link is confirmed. Xiaomi Strategic Investment joined Xynova’s angel round and continued adding in the Pre-A round. What is not confirmed: whether Xiaomi’s own robot hand uses Xynova’s technology. That detail still has no public proof. But the direction is clear: Xiaomi is putting money into the component layer that decides whether humanoids can actually handle objects, tools, and daily tasks. This is the part of robotics that rarely looks flashy on stage. But it decides what a robot can really do with its hands.
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Xynova just launched Flex 2, its second-gen hybrid dexterous hand — and Xiaomi is already on the cap table. 🤖✋ The spec sheet is sharp: 23 DOF, 400g palm, ±0.1mm repeatability, 0.05N force control, 12kg single-hand grasp load, and multimodal sensing for adaptive grasping and slip detection. Xynova is not only building a robotic hand. It is building the manipulation stack around it: micro linear actuators, joint modules, sensing, control, and developer-facing integration. The Xiaomi link is confirmed. Xiaomi Strategic Investment joined Xynova’s angel round and continued adding in the Pre-A round. What is not confirmed: whether Xiaomi’s own robot hand uses Xynova’s technology. That detail still has no public proof. But the direction is clear: Xiaomi is putting money into the component layer that decides whether humanoids can actually handle objects, tools, and daily tasks. This is the part of robotics that rarely looks flashy on stage. But it decides what a robot can really do with its hands.

RoboHub🤖

71,176 views • 4 months ago