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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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Touch is crucial for humans when they want to perform precise tasks to a high degree of reliability, and yet robots almost universally use vision — they’re often completely blind to this whole modality. Two works from Tong Jian, Tao Yu,… |
In addition to powerful throwing arms, AthenaZero features light, high-speed, tendon-driven hands capable of closing in ~80ms. Powered by torso motors, they combine high force with extreme delicacy, handling heavy tools or fragile items… |
OpenAI now keeps a public page where it admits its own coding agents have disabled the tools meant to catch them misbehaving, and the most recent entry, posted this week, describes an agent that removed a monitoring tool during a routine… |
Three different labs now ship an agent that messages you before you ask it to. Anthropic rolled out Claude Duet this week, a research preview on Pro and Max plans that runs on Opus 5.5, reads your calendar and inbox every few hours, and… |
Tactile sensing in robotics is not new. What is new is a gripper that interprets contact itself, on the tool, at the moment it happens. The industry is instrumenting vision, demonstrations and simulation. All three miss the moment that… |
This is really cool an open-source tactile manipulation dataset for humanoid robots Real-robot tactile data is scarce. Sharpa has released SharpaDex v1.0 on Hugging Face: 28,993 real-robot teleoperated demonstrations across 59 bimanual… |
RuggON‘s SVA 500 rugged touch VoIP terminal has been developed to provide reliable, flexible voice communications for mission-critical applications across defence, satellite communications, maritime and remote field environments.… |
ENGINEERING NEWS 🔋 Tesla has designed a breathable battery bandage that stops punctures without leaving a dead zone behind 🔥 Deep inside a lithium-ion cell, a thin strip of tape stands guard over one of the riskiest spots in the whole… |
How does a humanoid know it's done? A robot can see a screw being turned, but that doesn’t tell it whether the threads have caught...a click can tell it a latch has locked. Force feedback can reveal what a camera misses. Germany’s NEURA… |
When a robot opens a lock, only sound and touch can tell it whether the job is done. That’s why Neuron AI, our Perception-Language-Action (PLA) model, combines several senses at once. 3D images, tactile and force signals, audio, the… |
One AI model. Five robot embodiments. @NEURARobotics just introduced Neuron AI, combining vision, touch, sound and memory to turn physical experience into action. Progress keeps stacking across the DAO portfolio. https://t.co/T3Juxqx6uC |
We are proud to announce Neuron AI: our multimodal foundation model for Physical AI Neuron AI connects 3D vision, touch, audio, robot state and language with memory and turns that information into action. That’s the idea behind PLA, short… |
Tactile Sensors: Giving Humanoid Robots a "Sense of Touch": In this article, Senior Technology Analyst Noah El Alami explains how tactile sensors are becoming a key…… |
This has been exactly my feeling about what video models will do. Fundamentally there is a lot of missing information still. Even humans -- our brains and bodies honed by millions of years of evolutionary data for manipulation -- cant like… |
A Shanghai OR just got a humanoid nurse assistant At Fudan University Affiliated Jinshan Hospital, an AGIBOT G2 is on the operating-room floor. It won't touch a scalpel. It handles the work that keeps a case honest. It helps verify… |
'Robotics Fundamentals' - Viam just put part 2 online. No hardware required. Free. 📌 101 showed you how to build a palletizing robot in simulation. 102 takes you a step further: making sure your robot can run on its own. 120 minutes. 12… |
The first robot hand you won't be afraid to touch. 🤖 It uses only the force it needs nothing more. Would you trust it with your fingers? 📷 Media: @KyberLabsRobots ⚠️ This content is shared for informational purposes only. CTO Robotics… |
During the @theXtakeover talk, Elon Musk cuts through the hype around flashy humanoid robot demos with a blunt reality check: "Because the AI chip has got to be able to issue the torque commands and close the loop on vision and touch, so… |
A robot hand that turns one page at a time Turning a single book page is weirdly hard. Slow down, feel the paper, peel one sheet ,miss and you grab five. UVTA is BIGAI, Sharpa and Shanghai Jiao Tong's visual–tactile–action model-- vision,… |
Tesla’s latest patent application details flexible touch sensors that wrap around robotic fingers and palms. Could this design be linked to the touch-sensor durability and hand-assembly problems reportedly complicating Optimus production?… |
Elon has called the Optimus hand one of the hardest parts of the robot. Tesla just published a patent that points to one piece of that puzzle--a tactile skin that can follow the curved surfaces of a robot hand. Think of it as giving the… |
ENGINEERING NEWS 🗞️ Tesla has cracked the stiff-or-flimsy problem in robot touch: print the sensor flat, then heat-mold it around Optimus's fingers 🖐️ For a humanoid robot like Optimus, the hands are where the real work happens, and a… |
I'm judging at the Nebius Physical AI Awards 🏆 Run by @nebiusai with @NVIDIARobotics. Free to enter, open worldwide. Applications close 25 October, winners announced 18 November. The first thing I'd point at is the category list, because… |
ENGINEERING NEWS 🗞️ SpaceX has found a way to keep 256 cell beams from drifting out of sync in orbit: it holds every beam back until it matches the slowest one 🐢 Your phone was built to talk to a cell tower down the street, yet SpaceX… |
Could a robot run for a flight without spilling its coffee? I started thinking about this during my own airport sprint, coffee in hand. For a humanoid, 6 senses are working together at all times: - Sight: What can it see? - Depth: How far… |
Doosan Robotics just got picked for $69M worth of Korean Physical AI projects. One target a dual-arm industrial humanoid running AI directly onboard. The plan also includes 5 kg, 10 kg and 20 kg cobots. A Korean AI SoC with an NPU will… |
Touch is at the frontier of robotics https://t.co/M3eNpvEY26 |
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 |
🚨 BREAKING: Munich robotics startup @Robco_Robotics has just become a unicorn, crossing a $1 billion valuation in just nine months since its last round. Founded in 2020 by Roman Hölzl, Paul Maroldt and Constantin Dresel, RobCo built its… |
Forty times the price, same category, roughly the same age. Valispace sold to Altium in 2024 for about sixteen million dollars. Flow Engineering just raised its Series B at a $750 million valuation. Someone is betting requirements… |
Robots can now work by feel. One interesting demo at IROS 2026 comes from Daimon Robotics: a robot picks up tiny beads, aligns their holes, and threads them onto a flexible string. It looks simple, but the tricky part starts when the robot… |
『繊細な作業を習得する器用なロボットハンドの開発』 https://t.co/HANtxA7npw 光学式触覚、指先追跡、視覚＋触覚学習を統合。 配線・コネクタ挿入・精密組立などの習得時間を短縮するハンドを目指す。 #dexterous #RobotHand #PhysicalAI #touch #proprioception #vision #TangentRobotics https://t.co/7XPbasPlGp |
Inside tactile robotics w/ Professor Shan Luo, King's College London Robot skin changes. Models must adapt. “But hardware still matters a lot.” Luo leads the Robot Perception Lab. We discuss Unilever's material-assessment questions,… |
Atlas has new hands ... Boston Dynamics skipped the pinky. 13 degrees of freedom (up from 7) 4 fingers, no pinky Sealed motors at every joint Backdrivable, for touch & toughness Built for sim-to-real RL 1X, Tesla and Genesis are at 20+ DOF… |
EARLY 🌱: 5 companies across Healthcare, Robotics, AI, Energy and DevTools.👇 @dydemaneuro - 2 followers - (Healthcare): the model company for neurotech, building the data layer for brain tech. @ycombinator F26. @deadreckoningai - 4… |
To teach robots touch, wear it first. MX MATRIX built tactile data gloves that capture pressure, motion, and temperature straight from human hands as they feel the world. They weave their own piezoresistive fabric in-house to get right the… |
New datasets are becoming available to train #robots to have a sense of touch via tactile feedback. Explore the #data: https://t.co/1nm8jwcZ0A https://t.co/1ssUSS6k1e |
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… |
GOOD NEWS 📰 Tesla has set up a massive $30 billion financial safety net, replacing an older $5 billion credit line, according to a new SEC filing 🔥 To put it simply: Tesla hasn’t borrowed a single dollar yet, and officially confirmed it… |
$8.2 billion. That's what AMD is paying for a company that turns two years old this year and has shipped exactly one product. World Labs was Fei-Fei Li's bet that language models were solving the wrong problem, that understanding physical… |
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… |
IROS 2026 has a seriously packed exhibitor list. Unitree AGIBOT Agility Robotics PAL Robotics Franka Robotics Robotiq DH-Robotics XELA Robotics Tesollo Vicon XSens MyActuator Noitom Robotics Seeed Studio FieldAI and many more are on the… |
1. Fremont shut down Model S and Model X and moved the line and the people onto Optimus. Weekly output went from a few dozen in Q2 to several hundred in August, about 10x. The year-end target is a continuous automated line above 1,000 a… |
Tesla reportedly went from building a few dozen Optimus robots a week to several hundred. But the hands and AI remain major hurdles. The Information reports: • Hand-and-forearm assemblies require manual assembly of 100+ screws and other… |
We have plenty of human demonstration data for movement. We don’t have enough for touch. Without tactile feedback, foundation models can’t feel if an object is slipping, soft, or fragile during complex manipulation. Matrix Inno is bringing… |
This might be one of the best projects ever released in human history. Being able to carry a powerful multimodal intelligence inside a small box already sounds unreal. Muse can understand images, language and instructions, plan tasks and… |
Brett Adcock is becoming one of the defining names in humanoid robotics. Alongside people like @elonmusk and @JensenHuang he is helping push the industry from impressive demos toward machines that can actually operate in the real world.… |
The bottleneck moved from generating text to making decisions. Jev from TypeSafe AI launched this week out of stealth. It is not a chat model. It is a System One model: it accepts any unstructured context and returns a typed, probabilistic… |
Exa just shipped something that changes how you train and evaluate AI agents that touch the web. Snapshot gives you point-in-time access to 400 billion historical web snapshots. Not crawl metadata. Not indexed links. The actual page… |
I just had dinner with a team that is making new AI glasses, and they just blow away everything else I've seen on the market. For all day wearing. No cameras, no displays, all AI: a pair of glasses that, if I was wearing them, you would… |
I tried teleoperating a humanoid robot arm through an exoskeleton controller. 🌰 big walnut - grabbed in a few seconds 🌰 small walnut - couldn't do it for 10 min Controlling a robot hand through an exoskeleton is harder than it looks.… |
.@fal's Gorkem Yurtseven and Batuhan Taskaya on making an open source video model 35x faster, and what Hollywood wanted after they built it: Last month, MiniMax released H3, an open source video model. fal rebuilt it - they cut down the… |
Testing is the one part of the AI buildout that is not optional. A single bad die takes the whole package with it. So the more expensive the chips get, the more testing happens, not less. My two favorite plays are $AEHR and $FORM. $FORM… |
Digit lost its bird legs! 🦿 @agilityrobotics released Digit 5 today, and the most visible change is the knees. The ostrich-style backwards legs are gone, replaced with human-like ones. Jonathan Hurst, co-founder and chief robot officer,… |
Two humanoid robots, one household chore most people never think about. Apptronik’s Apollo 2 pulls the liner together and ties a trash bag using five-fingered hands. Google DeepMind tested this exact type of manipulation with Gemini… |
Most code review tools today are either fully LLM-driven or fully rule-based. Alibaba's open-code-review is neither. They open-sourced the tool they run at scale internally. The architecture is hybrid: a static analysis pipeline handles… |
Lo, we have heard of hall-lords of Odense, of Teradyne’s thanes and Universal’s arms, who first forged the friend-robot, the side-by-side smith, the force-limited limb that labors with men. Then came the east-wind workshops, swift-handed… |
The thing I keep coming back to in YC's RFS for Fall 2026: "AI is moving into the physical world." Not as a metaphor. As a literal investment thesis. They laid out 13 categories. Physical data collection. A physical world OS. AI for aging… |
🍪 Giving #reBot a sense of touch. We teleoperated biscuit grasping with the reBot arm, inspired by #FlexiTac, an open-source flexible #tactile sensor—piezoresistive film + FPC matrix scanning —running #pressure recognition, Gaussian… |
The pattern I keep seeing: AI safety evaluation is scaling faster than the infrastructure for evaluating AI safely. Out of 141,006 evaluation runs Anthropic audited, three incidents emerged where Claude models accessed real systems they… |
In physical industrial deployments, safety validation cannot be an afterthought. Factory floors and automotive systems require mathematical proof of fault containment and ASIL-D safety guarantees before models touch physical actuators.… |
Deploying private, on-premises models inside semiconductor fabrication is necessary to protect process IP. Advanced yield optimization algorithms cannot touch public networks when proprietary lithography recipes and defect telemetry are… |
Robots cleaning your cars! 🧼 The Autowash Robotics Operating System went into commercial operation this month at their Lakeside site in Wheat Ridge, after around 14 months of development. Here's what happens when you pull in. The system… |
The humanoid hand debate is focused on the wrong bottleneck. The usual argument is about where to put the motor. Tendon-driven hands keep the actuators upstream and pull the fingers with cables. Tesla's Optimus ($TSLA) and 1X's NEO broadly… |
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… |
X Square Robot just unveiled TwinDEX, an isomorphic three-finger, 9-DoF manipulation interface designed to solve the physical AI data bottleneck. By matching a wearable exoskeleton directly to a robot end effector across kinematics, touch,… |
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