The hand is the missing interface layer between AI and the physical world.
Worth noting where the components are actually being built.
The dexterous hand ecosystem, both the components and integrated products, is consolidating across a handful of Asian suppliers.
✋🏻 Finished hands:
- @SharpaRobotics Wave, @wuji_global, @PaXiniTech Tech's DexH13, @AGIBOTofficial spinout AgiLink’s OmniHand, and XYNOVA's Flex 2.
Just a few examples that are shipping commercially.
⚙️ The component tier:
- micro harmonic reducers (Leaderdrive, Laifu Harmonic),
- precision ball screws (Wuzhou Xinchun),
- embedded controllers and flex PCBs (Leadshine, Avary, Dongshan).
In terms of sensors, @gelsight is developing a miniaturized "digital fingertip" and soft tactile sensor with a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the United States Air Force.
XELA, a Tokyo/Waseda spinout, is unveiling several new major tactile sensor enhancements at Automate in Chicago later this month.
The dexterous hand is not just a hardware business.
It’s a data business.
Whoever ships the most tactile sensors and dexterous hands, accumulates the most tactile data.
And that is the key missing piece in training better models.
@Any22309@gruenebombe@olivergorus seh ich auch so - als nicht-Boomer:
die wollten 70 Jahre / 42 % nach 45 Jahren Arbeit
irre.
staatlich organisierte Altersarmut.
Sehr interessant! Unbedingt anhören: Raffelhüschen spricht Tacheles. Die Lösung des Rentenproblems war mit der Agenda 2010 bereits gefunden – und wurde danach dann von einer Kette von SPD-Ministern zerstört. Die Suppe dürfen die Jungen heute auslöffeln.