Dexterity
What changed, and what is the evidence.
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- 🗓️ 2026-10-22 · ✍️ RoboterminalEka's Robot Picks 1,500 Things an Hour. Its Gripper Is Rated for About 139 Days of That.
- 🗓️ 2026-10-21 · ✍️ RoboterminalSchaeffler Will Buy Thousands of Humanoids From Its Actuator Customers. Its €400 Million Order Book Doesn't Count Those Deals.
- 🗓️ 2026-10-19 · ✍️ RoboterminalFifteen Humanoids Are Loading Car Parts at 98%. The Number That Decides Their Future Is 15 Seconds.
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What changed, and what is the evidence.
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BOOM 🆘 2027 is shaping up to be the brilliant year that Tesla's AI ambitions become real 🔥 On the Q3 earnings call, Elon and the team put dates on almost everything enthusiasts have been waiting for, and the biggest one is about the car… |
Super cool! speed + dexterity is critical for hard deployments. congrats on this milestone @pulkitology and the the Eka team! https://t.co/ZFjb9BuwCL |
Humanoids are starting to look more like delivery workers. In warehouses and on delivery routes, hands alone aren't enough. People brace bulky packages against their torso or slide them along an arm to keep them stable and free a hand for… |
Dexterity Explained | How Dexterity Expands Automation In Part 2 of Dexterity Explained, we look at how different levels of dexterity can unlock different kinds of automation. Not every task requires the same level of dexterity. At… |
We heard the hype around LLMs and robotics, so we put Astra and Fable to the test. 16 tasks testing 13 capabilities. Our finding: both did surprisingly well on reasoning and planning and struggled with dexterity. But Astra did better… |
Dexterity lies more in the head than it does in the hand https://t.co/NwIRrO9H2P |
My biggest takeaway from IROS was about hands and dexterity. It used to be so hard to do meaningful work with hands -- and it's still hard, these systems are fragile and expensive, but it's so, so much easier. Human-level dexterity for… |
Cameras see at 60 FPS. By the time a vision frame registers an object slipping from a humanoid hand, gravity has already won. True dexterity isn't visual guessing—it's sub-millisecond shear-force telemetry in electronic fingertips. We… |
Dexterity is the frontier for robotics today Great writeup by @chris_j_paxton - that was my main takeaway from IROS as well https://t.co/dvt1X3b7QI |
What if a robot hand could grip objects with human-like precision? 🤖✋ The WUJI Hand features 20 degrees of freedom, 1 kHz control and a peak fingertip force of 12N bringing increasingly dexterous robotic manipulation closer to reality.… |
WUJI is showcasing its dexterous robotic hands at IROS 2026, demonstrating how human hand movements can control a robot through glove-based teleoperation. Its WUJI Hand 2 can also perform precise tasks like pen spinning using a policy… |
Pen spinning is a classic test of human finger dexterity. WUJI just trained a robot hand to do it. Their sim-to-real policy, trained entirely in simulation, spins a pen on a physical WUJI Hand 2. At IROS 2026 they also showed glove-based… |
Robots Doing Stuff #66 | Peeling & Sealing an Envelope Peeling a thin adhesive liner is a surprisingly demanding manipulation task. Our dexterous hands coordinate throughout the task to remove the liner, fold the flap, and seal the… |
98% success at each step sounds impressive. But across a 100-step task, independent errors can bring a robot’s chance of finishing the whole job down to just 13%. That’s why teaching robots to spot mistakes and recover matters so much.… |
This hand is built for speed. And it can catch a ball in mid-air. 🤯🖐️ PSYONIC’s Ability Hand uses high-speed sensing and control to catch, manipulate and react to objects in real time. The impressive part? This is not just about strength… |
🚨 BREAKING: Minerva Humanoids (@mnv_humanoids) has just emerged from stealth with $10M in pre-seed funding led by @generalcatalyst. It's building humanoid robots for the world's most dangerous jobs. Oil and gas. Explosive ordnance… |
Four warehouse robots, four different parts of the workflow. ✸ Boston Dynamics Stretch | unloads trailers ✸ Dexterity Mech | loads trailers ✸ AmbiSort A-Series | sorts parcels into sacks ✸ Exotec Skypod | retrieves storage bins… |
Dexterity unlocks a new level of robot capabilities. Touch, force and sensors play an important role in this. Scott Walter @GoingBallistic5 @RoboStrategy explains here https://t.co/faj7543eof |
So the biggest trend I saw at IROS was the huge push towards dexterity (and to a lesser extent touch and force sensing, which are usually considered prerequisites) https://t.co/1PxhXEc6SZ |
Not every robot needs a human-like hand. 🤖🖐️ The end-effector is often designed around the job it needs to perform. 🇺🇸 Sunday Robotics | Unique gripper 🏠 Designed for home chores and fine manipulation 🇨🇳 Sharpa | Five-finger hand ✋… |
Boston Dynamics unveiled a new hand for Atlas: four fingers, 13 DoF. The team decided not to add a pinky. Elon Musk previously pointed out, while discussing Optimus on a podcast, that losing your pinky would noticeably reduce overall hand… |
Directly actuated hands with 13 degrees of freedom solve dexterity in simulation, but the real test on factory floors is maintenance and durability. When an end effector takes thousands of impacts per shift on an assembly line, mechanical… |
Robotic Dexterity Explained | "What is robotic dexterity?" In Part 1 of Dexterity Explained, we break down what manual dexterity is, why it matters, and how robotic hands and Physical AI work together to bring greater skill, precision, and… |
If your humanoid robot drops fragile glassware without looking at its hands, it has already lost the dexterity race 🦾⚡ 144 nodes/cm² piezoresistive micro-pressure matrix + sub-5ms micro-slip detection running on high-speed SPI… |
A robot that catches falling objects in real time. 👀🤖 Sharpa’s humanoid robot is demonstrating remarkably fast reaction and manipulation capabilities at IROS 2026 catching randomly falling objects before they hit the ground. This is the… |
Use humanoids when human-like mobility and dexterity solve an automation problem better than the alternatives. Not because they look human. Rahul Garg, VP of Industrial Machinery at @Siemens, on when humanoid economics actually make sense.… |
Go from internet or generated videos to high-quality dexterous robot data. A way to answer the question: how can we actually scale robot dexterity? https://t.co/8OKcyRqyjB https://t.co/xs1HAL47uu |
Achieving human-like dexterity is the next frontier for robotics, and yet dexterity data is often subtly hard to scale. Real-world dexterity data, including things like finger-pose estimates, is often slightly off, making it physically… |
Some of the absolute coolest robot dexterity in the world. Folding origami! https://t.co/WGx8ZgWYsQ |
Wuji Hand is a biomimetic robotic hand with 20 active degrees of freedom, designed to reproduce human-like dexterity. Weighing under 600 g, it delivers 15 N fingertip force, 10 kg static grasping load, and precise, responsive motion. Video… |
This robotic hand moves like a human hand but at incredible speed. 🤯🖐️ LINKERBOT is showcasing its tendon-driven dexterous robotic hand manipulating nuts, bolts and other objects with highly coordinated finger movements. The… |
Sharpa Robotics just dropped a new hand video and the level keeps going up. This is the Sharpa Wave running WM Craftnet on a human scale fivefinger hand with 22 active DoF. The policy combines wrist depth, tactile sensing, proprioception… |
Brett Adcock says building humanoid robots comes down to four chapters — and the first two can't be bought with money. They need an obsessed "nuts" engineering team working day and night. Chapters 3 and 4 are different: they're capital… |
By advancing sensor fusion, AI, and real-time control, ADI is pushing the boundaries of industrial dexterity to help robots adapt and manipulate complex tasks with greater precision and reliability. Discover how: https://t.co/BDDO9QogbZ… |
🤖 AI robot or just ChatGPT on a body? Dhruv Batra says language isn’t enough. Show the dexterity, navigation and physical understanding. https://t.co/pCfWh92x7L |
Robots Doing Stuff #65 | Ep. 60 - 64 Highlights Five episodes. Five different looks at what it takes to automate complex physical work. From welding and failure recovery to bimanual threading, power tool use, and delicate object handling,… |
Tactile sensing and precision dexterity separate industrial manipulation from staged demos. Chinese hardware ecosystems iterate rapidly on end-effectors, but long-term adoption depends on continuous reliability under harsh factory floor… |
A robot hand just pulled off human-like dexterity. 🤯 Genesis AI’s GENE-26.5 is a robotics-native foundation model designed for complex physical manipulation. In this demonstration, the robotic hand simultaneously handles multiple objects… |
Our Robotic Tableware Cleaning Workstation combines AI-powered vision, high-precision #forcecontrol, and flexible dual-arm coordination to recognize, clean, and organize tableware with human-like dexterity. It's another step toward… |
High-speed open-loop dexterity is impressive in laboratory demos. Deploying those actuators into industrial assembly requires verifying that high-speed tendon linkages maintain positioning repeatability over millions of continuous duty… |
Curious how robots manipulate objects they can’t fully see? Sanctuary AI Co-Founder & Chief Engineering & Operations Officer Olivia Norton explains why touch and force feedback are critical for dexterous manipulation, especially when… |
408 tactile sensors closes the dexterity gap. When robots feel force distribution, slip, and texture in real time, assembly tasks that required human hands become automatable. Haptic sensing bridges vision and manipulation.… |
Elon Musk thinks humanoid robots could become a bigger industry than almost anyone expects (Save this). @elonmusk said the usefulness of a humanoid robot depends on three factors, the quality of its artificial intelligence software, the… |
It turns out removing arms & hands completely gets us closer to the GPT moment for robotics! Obviously, the tasks that you can teach to a microduck is limited. But, one can't be more excited about how this will change once we have hand… |
Post Log in Sign up Post Humanoid Scott on X: "When Will a Humanoid Break the Decathlon World Record? Here's why that question matters 1\. The decathlon is the closest thing to a real fitness test for a humanoid body, 10 events, 1 machine,… |
Tesla building Optimus at Fremont. Same line that made Model S and X now makes humanoid robots. Early units go to Tesla’s own factory floor to learn real work. Hands with human level dexterity. Built to work 10 hour shifts. The car company… |
Physical AI has made huge progress, but scaling intelligent robots is still constrained by problems far beyond the model itself. 7 bottlenecks stand out: 1️⃣ Data: robots need massive amounts of diverse real-world data, and collecting it… |
Robots Doing Stuff #64 | Delicate Object Handling Will you find crackers and grapes on the production floor? Probably not. But what you will find are tasks that require the manipulation of delicate, irregular, and easily damaged objects.… |
Skip to main content July 30, 2026 Models Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots Carolina Parada Share Your browser does not support the video tag. From feet to fingertips — we are teaching robots intelligent whole-body… |
Skip to main content July 30, 2026 Models Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots Carolina Parada Share Your browser does not support the video tag. From feet to fingertips — we are teaching robots intelligent whole-body… |