Fudan’s New Patent: Five Servos, Fifteen Degrees of Freedom, One Platform
Sarah Xiao A 3-RRR parallel platform on the back of the hand drives all four fingers. Five servos, fifteen degrees of freedom,…
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Stop Using Just Hands
Amazon's WBD dataset (2.51M whole-body grasps) and a real G1 at 90%. Why redefining what counts as manipulation beat a…
The Robot Writes Down the Fix
99% on 80 tasks is the headline; 15% to 99% by swapping only the language model is the finding. What…
Legged Robots Review: From “Can Walk” to “Can Act” — What Still Blocks Deployment
A 2026 Science Robotics review maps legged robots across hardware, control, autonomy, data and deployment — and the four bottlenecks…
The Brain Costs More Than the Robot
The ex-NVIDIA GR00T team's Dream-1 outputs poses, not joint angles. The catch: at $3/hour, the brain costs more per year…
Nine Cells, One Bottleneck: Embodied AI on Device
Compute, communications and control across cloud, edge and device — why the weakest cell sets task success, and six questions…
Reading a Humanoid Robot Spec Sheet: DOF, Payload and Torque
Vendor sheets look comparable, but the numbers are rarely measured the same way. Three figures decide whether a platform survives…
How Torque-Sensing Harmonic Drive Modules Are Perfecting Industry 5.0 Teamwork
Theodore Li Harmonic drive modules with torque sensor is changing the industry 5.0 teamwork ways