BrainCo just released the Revo 3 dexterous hand ๐ค
A 21-DoF dexterous hand built fully on direct-drive, backdrivable joints โ designed for precision, speed, and control beyond typical robotic hands.
It integrates full-palm tactile sensing at 0.01N resolution, plus fingertip visuotactile sensing capable of detecting ~130ฮผm deformation.
That combination matters: it enables stable in-hand manipulation instead of just grasping.
Revo 3 hits 20N pinch force while maintaining fine control, and runs at 500Hz control frequency across position, impedance, MIT force-position, and zero-torque modes.
It supports EtherCAT, CAN FD, and RS485, with a wide 12โ80V operating range โ clearly built for real deployment, not just lab setups.
On motion, it runs 3Hz open-close cycles, covers 33 grasp types, and reportedly exceeds human hand range in Kapandji testing.
The bigger signal is integration:
full tactile + visuotactile + sim2real + open ecosystem, with one-click deployment.
This is what a production-ready dexterous hand stack starts to look like.
๐จ๐ซ๐ท BREAKING: Franceโs Aerix Systems Unveils Drone That Can Stay Stable Even After Mid-Air Propeller Failure.
France-based Aerix Systems is developing the AXS-ฮผ1 drone, a next-generation platform designed to maintain balance even when a propellerโs direction is disrupted during flight.
The technology aims to significantly improve drone resilience, allowing continued operation in situations that would normally cause most drones to crash.
If successful, this could reshape how drones are used in surveillance, defense, and high risk environments.
Source: Aerix Systems / industry reports
NVIDIA's Kimodo is the release of the week ๐ฅ
Prompt the timeline whatever your want like: "a person walks forward" โ "a person starts jumping", hit Generate, and watch a 3D character do it in seconds
(700hrs of pro mocap training. Works on human + robot skeletons. Super fast + free to use on HF)
Al creates indestructible robot that can adapt, reconfigure itself and almost impossible to destroy.
Researchers at Northwestern University have built a highly adaptable and technically indestructible robot, the "legged metamachine," designed using artificial intelligence.
The modular robot can reconfigure itself and adapt its movements according to different situations. Interestingly, each module of this unique robot is capable of independent movement, making it more resilient than traditional robots designed for specific tasks.
In fact, it can keep moving even after losing an entire leg.
We built this demo in collaboration with a clinical pathology lab. It shows a single system doing real lab tasks: tool use, precision manipulation, and high level planning.
This was done in one take with no teleop and uses our skills based AI to enable generality while staying deterministic and reliable for real world workflows.
See more here: https://t.co/ZYCuUkOJKq