Rocking Tech

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

Unboxing a humanoid robot shipped from China in Malaysia makes the future feel weirdly close 🤖

[Space and Technology @spaceandtech_]

Chinese robotics startup Rochu Robotics has developed a humanoid hand with a human-like skeletal structure for natural movement.

The hand uses a hydraulic system and 24 biomimetic tendons instead of electric motors.

This design improves flexibility, strength, and precise fingertip control.

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

Tesla Optimus robot now walks with Swagger

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Figure ends its F.03 humanoid livestream after 200 continuous hours with zero failures, autonomously sorting 249,560 packages.

Real humans were the ones celebrating the win. The robot clocked out for a well-deserved nap.

[The Humanoid Hub @TheHumanoidHub]

The human hand is the product of 400 million years of evolution, carefully sculpted through countless generations of biological selection.

It’s the one design we know for sure works exceptionally well for the full spectrum of human affordances.

Genesis AI's brain + Wuji hands:

[CyberRobo @CyberRobooo]

Milestone in Humanoid Robotics: A Thousand Humanoid Sorters Entering Logistics Centers

Beijing-based RobotEra is deploying its L7 humanoid robot across more than 10 logistics centers operated by China Post, SF Express Group, and other major players.

In several of these centers, the embodied AI robots have already reached over 85% of human-level efficiency while operating stably 24/7.
The company is set to begin batch deliveries of robots at the thousand-unit scale in Q2 this year.

RobotEra recently raised $200 million in funding. By combining external capital with self-generated revenue, it is accelerating the real-world deployment of humanoid robots.

I wonder what UPS would think if they saw this solution? Rumors have been circulating recently that they intend to deploy Figure's humanoid robots in their logistics centers.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

I got to see various phases of this robot be developed.

This is Kinetix Al new robot.

It is quite interesting…

[CyberRobo @CyberRobooo]

Holy… is this really not a human?

That was my reaction too,I could hardly believe it.

This is an ultra-humanlike humanoid robot.

1.73 m tall, 70 kg, with 115 degrees of freedom across the body,36 in the hands alone,and full-body tactile skin.

…

This is KAI, the first humanoid robot from Shenzhen-based KinetixAI.

It’s essentially a 1:1 human replica，except it has no face.

I wonder if it could use Aheadform’s M1? that will be interesting.

Powered by its KAI World Model and trained on large-scale Engocentric data, it can fold clothes, use tools, handle deliveries and takeout, and assist with childcare,covering a wide range of household tasks.

Ok, expectations for Tesla Optimus v3 have been raised once again.

[Friday, Invent your future @talktofriday]

Skip the Work Week with Friday. If you had a Genius CoWorker to solve complex problems, every day would feel like Friday. Friday turns a week of work into minutes, so you can focus on doing great work. Think bigger. Move faster

[Johannes Maria @luo_yuehan]

At a tablet manufacturing workshop, AgiBot's Genie G2 humanoid robots completed an eight-hour shift on a real assembly line requiring high-speed precision operations and human-machine collaboration throughout the process. They made no mistakes in 2,283 operations, marking the start of embodied Al's routine, industrial-grade deployment.

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

MIT researchers just replicated human muscles with AI-controlled fibers.

Inside each fiber is a sealed tube of electrically charged liquid and a tiny electric pump.

When the pump activates, one side contracts while the other relaxes, just as your biceps and triceps do when you bend your arm.

How it works:

> The pump injects electrical charge into the fluid
> This creates ions that drag the liquid along with them
> No motors, no external pumps, completely silent

Because they're fibers, they bundle together just like real muscles, scaling up force by adding more strands.

In demos, these fibers were strong enough to bend a robotic arm and curl a dumbbell... but gentle enough to shake someone's hand.

From prosthetics to exoskeletons to industrial robots, this is what happens when engineers stop building around motors and start building around biology.

[The Humanoid Hub @TheHumanoidHub]

Kia’s CEO announced a phased roadmap for deploying the Boston Dynamics Atlas humanoid:

- 2028: Full-scale deployment of Atlas at Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America (HMGMA) in Georgia.

- Second half of 2029: Expansion to Kia AutoLand (Georgia) and other global Group production facilities.

Deployment will initially involve 16 core manufacturing processes.

Kia and Boston Dynamics are both Hyundai Motor Group companies.

[CyberRobo @CyberRobooo]

BCI company BrainCo just released a new dexterous hand: Revo3.

But this time, it’s not for humans, it’s built for humanoid robots.

＞21 DOF
＞Full-palm + fingertip tactile sensing
＞Direct drive + backdrivable design
＞33 grasp types
＞20N fingertip pinch force
＞Open-source ecosystem, one-click deployment

It looks bigger and heavier than the previous versions, but clearly designed for real robot work:picking up objects, using tools, and performing tasks...

btw, what do you think are the real differences between the hands of humanoid robots and the bionic hands used by humans?

[Electrical Knowledge @electric_4u]

Electronics beginners should know the meaning of component symbols printed on PCB

[CyberRobo @CyberRobooo]

No one could turn down a humanoid robot with human-like tactile sensitivity.

JQ Industries equipped the Unitree G1 humanoid robot with a fabric-based electronic skin (piezoresistive flexible tactile sensors).

A light touch can convert pressure, deformation, and slip into electrical signals, which are then processed by AI for real-time closed-loop control.(Integrates NVIDIA Isaac Sim)

With this skin,humanoid robots start to behave more naturally:

Touch sensing is no longer limited to dexterous hands,the entire body can feel, allowing the robot to stop or adjust posture instantly during collisions.

It can also detect hugs, taps on the shoulder, or gentle touches, and respond in a softer, more human-like way.

This matters especially in elder care and medical rehabilitation.

A humanoid robot could gently help someone stand up, or control force precisely during assisted massage without harming the skin.

Rigid mechanical systems deliver superhuman physical strength, while flexible sensing systems enable nuanced emotions.

Electronic skin bridges high intelligence and high emotional intelligence.

[CyberRobo @CyberRobooo]

Generalist AI has just broken the "impossible triangle" of speed, reliability, and intelligence in robotics.

They’ve pushed their embodied foundation model forward in a big way: GEN-1 hits “Mastery” on simple physical tasks,99% average success rate, and it can improvise when things go wrong.

Smooth, natural, fast(factory owners must be very interested)👇

>Folding boxes: 200 runs at 99% success in ~12 seconds ( ~34s before)
>Packing phones, folding T-shirts, servicing robot vacuums,hundreds of reps with almost zero failures
> Intelligent improvisation, handling uncertain tasks
>Needs only about 1 hour of robot-specific data per task

This feels like a real step toward humanoid robots that are actually reliable enough for factories, warehouse or homes.

Physical AGI is accelerating