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Figure CEO Brett Adcock dismissed tendon-driven hands as a "complete local maximum," igniting a fierce debate with Foundation over friction, force, and the future of humanoid manipulation.
1X Technologies has revealed highly dexterous, 25-DoF robotic hands for its NEO humanoid, paired with the strategic appointment of Bill Nash as CFO as the company gears up for consumer shipments.
At ICRA 2026, AGILINK debuted its flagship direct-drive dexterous hand, the OmniHand 3 Ultra-M. By integrating vision-based tactile sensing and a 20-DOF architecture, the newly minted unicorn is moving humanoid robotics beyond motion control and into the era of contact-rich manipulation.
Shenzhen-based Wuji Tech has released a highly polished CGI teaser for its next-generation Wuji Hand 2, promising significant upgrades to transmission efficiency and torque sensing. However, concrete product details and real-world demonstrations remain noticeably absent.
Sanctuary AI has demonstrated successful zero-shot transfer for in-hand manipulation, allowing a policy trained entirely in simulation to reorient objects on physical hardware without real-world fine-tuning.
Following a successful pilot in its EV factory, Xiaomi has completely redesigned its humanoid hand, introducing a 1:1 human form factor, 150,000-cycle durability, and an evaporative liquid-cooling system to manage motor heat.
Following their viral "nut-spinning" demo, Kyber Labs has showcased a robotic hand performing complex wet lab tasks, signaling a shift toward deterministic, "primitive-based" AI for high-stakes laboratory automation.
MIT engineers have developed a wearable ultrasound wristband that tracks hand movements by imaging internal muscle and tendon activity, offering a potential solution to the data bottlenecks currently facing humanoid teleoperation.
PSYONIC’s Ability Hand has become a native asset in NVIDIA Isaac Lab, introducing a "real-to-real" transfer pipeline that uses human-driven data to train dexterous robotic manipulation.
Sharpa Robotics has unveiled a new hierarchical framework that combines shared-autonomy data collection with a "mixture-of-experts" AI model to achieve complex, contact-rich manipulation tasks.
A new technical critique from Origami Robotics argues that high-ratio gearboxes are the "foundational" bottleneck for robotic dexterity, prompting a rare hardware reveal from 1X CEO Bernt Børnich.
Figure CEO Brett Adcock has shared a sneak peek of the company’s 7th-generation robotic hand, showcasing advanced degrees of freedom including thumb rotation and finger abduction/adduction.
