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fromEngadget
3 days ago

Sharpa's ping-pong playing, blackjack dealing humanoid is working overtime at CES 2026

The hand has 22 active degrees of freedom, according to the company, allowing for precise and intricate finger movements. It mirrored my gestures as I wiggled my hand in front of its camera, getting everything mostly right, which was honestly pretty cool. Each fingertip contains a minicamera and over 1,000 tactile pixels so it can pick up objects with the appropriate amount of delicateness for the task at hand, like plucking a playing card from a deck and placing it gently on the table.
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fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

This startup bucked mainstream robotics training methods to teach a robot how to load the dishes

Sunday Robotics built Memo, a mobile home robot that autonomously clears tables, loads dishwashers, handles fragile items and performs household tasks using glove-based training.
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fromThe Verge
3 months ago

Humanoid robots are Meta's next 'AR-size bet'

Meta is building humanoid robots as a multi‑billion dollar AR‑sized bet and identifies software, especially dexterous manipulation, as the primary bottleneck.
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