China wants to solve the hardest problem in robotics – making hands

Race to develop ‘embodied AI’ focuses on creating dextrous hands to transform humanoid robots from gimmicks into useful products ...
TMCnet

Joyson Electronics Unveils Embodied AI Core Component Portfolio, Including Dexterous Robotic Hand and Solid-Liquid Hybrid Battery, at WAIC 2026

Joyson Electronics (600699.SH/0699.HK) announced at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) a suite of robotic component solutions, including a dexterous robotic hand, solid-liquid ...
TechCrunch

Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI has gone full stack, demo shows

Genesis AI, a startup that raised a $105 million seed round to build foundational AI for robotics, has unveiled its first model, GENE-26.5, and it comes with surprise hands. In a demo video, the ...
The New York Times

Life Resembles ‘The Addams Family’ With Thing-Like Robotic Hand

The very capable robotic picker-upper can grasp things on both sides and roam around freely. By Ari Daniel As a mother of three, Aude Billard, a roboticist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

New robotic hand lifts 55 pounds while handling fragile items with human-like skill

Swiss robotics startup Mimic Robotics has unveiled the Mimic Hand M1, a dexterous robotic ...
Ars Technica

From folding boxes to fixing vacuums, GEN-1 robotics model hits 99% reliability

Robotic machine-learning company Generalist has announced GEN-1, a new physical AI system that it says “crosses into production-level success rates” on “a broad range of physical skills” that used to ...