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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.
Oct 12, 2026 · Conference · posted
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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… |
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 |
Some thoughts on a robotics conference: the research community increasingly is looking at enabling contact-rich manipulation with dexterous hands, and has the tools to do so https://t.co/zZhiEHLX49 |
I'm cautiously optimistic about many of the tendon-drive hands coming onto the market (proception is so cool!) but sometimes I worry it's a bit of nerd-sniping. it's this clever cool thing that sounds like a really good idea if only you… |
IROS 2026 lists 183 exhibitors in its official directory including companies and organizations. 1. 42de GmbH 2. Abaka AI 3. Aether AI 4. AGIBOT 5. AgileX Robotics 6. Agility 7. Amazon 8. Analog Devices Inc 9. Apex Sensing LLC 10. Applied… |
the most interesting hardware in robotics isn't robots. @sundayrobotics built a skill capture glove so regular people can record chores. proception built a glove for dexterous hand data. UMI turned gripper data collection into a $300 tool.… |