#dexterity — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dexterity, aggregated by home.social.
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“Arming #robots could keep human soldiers out of harm's way, he argues.”
“the black shiny faceless #PhantomRobot is engaged in ‘free play’, manipulating a bunch of coloured kids blocks. "We need #data from it just interacting with its environment…[and] this is today's menu," explains #SankaetPathak, co-founder and CEO of two-year-old #StartUp #FoundationRobotics”
“The company's first-generation model, #PhantomMK1, which I am shown, doesn't have a battery, isn't #dust or #waterproof and can't get back up if it falls. Its #hands – still a major robotics challenge – lack #strength and #dexterity, and it has no proper wrists yet.”
I love the names given to these bits of engineering. Matches the capability. 🤪🤣
🤖 #MechaTronics / #Engineering / #AI / #AITools <https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cedpxwe26l1o>
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“Arming #robots could keep human soldiers out of harm's way, he argues.”
“the black shiny faceless #PhantomRobot is engaged in ‘free play’, manipulating a bunch of coloured kids blocks. "We need #data from it just interacting with its environment…[and] this is today's menu," explains #SankaetPathak, co-founder and CEO of two-year-old #StartUp #FoundationRobotics”
“The company's first-generation model, #PhantomMK1, which I am shown, doesn't have a battery, isn't #dust or #waterproof and can't get back up if it falls. Its #hands – still a major robotics challenge – lack #strength and #dexterity, and it has no proper wrists yet.”
I love the names given to these bits of engineering. Matches the capability. 🤪🤣
🤖 #MechaTronics / #Engineering / #AI / #AITools <https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cedpxwe26l1o>
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“Arming #robots could keep human soldiers out of harm's way, he argues.”
“the black shiny faceless #PhantomRobot is engaged in ‘free play’, manipulating a bunch of coloured kids blocks. "We need #data from it just interacting with its environment…[and] this is today's menu," explains #SankaetPathak, co-founder and CEO of two-year-old #StartUp #FoundationRobotics”
“The company's first-generation model, #PhantomMK1, which I am shown, doesn't have a battery, isn't #dust or #waterproof and can't get back up if it falls. Its #hands – still a major robotics challenge – lack #strength and #dexterity, and it has no proper wrists yet.”
I love the names given to these bits of engineering. Matches the capability. 🤪🤣
🤖 #MechaTronics / #Engineering / #AI / #AITools <https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cedpxwe26l1o>
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“Arming #robots could keep human soldiers out of harm's way, he argues.”
“the black shiny faceless #PhantomRobot is engaged in ‘free play’, manipulating a bunch of coloured kids blocks. "We need #data from it just interacting with its environment…[and] this is today's menu," explains #SankaetPathak, co-founder and CEO of two-year-old #StartUp #FoundationRobotics”
“The company's first-generation model, #PhantomMK1, which I am shown, doesn't have a battery, isn't #dust or #waterproof and can't get back up if it falls. Its #hands – still a major robotics challenge – lack #strength and #dexterity, and it has no proper wrists yet.”
I love the names given to these bits of engineering. Matches the capability. 🤪🤣
🤖 #MechaTronics / #Engineering / #AI / #AITools <https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cedpxwe26l1o>
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“Arming #robots could keep human soldiers out of harm's way, he argues.”
“the black shiny faceless #PhantomRobot is engaged in ‘free play’, manipulating a bunch of coloured kids blocks. "We need #data from it just interacting with its environment…[and] this is today's menu," explains #SankaetPathak, co-founder and CEO of two-year-old #StartUp #FoundationRobotics”
“The company's first-generation model, #PhantomMK1, which I am shown, doesn't have a battery, isn't #dust or #waterproof and can't get back up if it falls. Its #hands – still a major robotics challenge – lack #strength and #dexterity, and it has no proper wrists yet.”
I love the names given to these bits of engineering. Matches the capability. 🤪🤣
🤖 #MechaTronics / #Engineering / #AI / #AITools <https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cedpxwe26l1o>
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Robot video Friday! (Yes, I know it's Sunday.)
Dexterous hands/arms, Labububot, Spot does parkour, and more!
https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-robotic-hand-dexterity
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Robot video Friday! (Yes, I know it's Sunday.)
Dexterous hands/arms, Labububot, Spot does parkour, and more!
https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-robotic-hand-dexterity
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Rich Walker is the Director of Shadow Robot Company. He worked initially on software and systems engineering before "jumping the fence" into management. Rich represents robotics SMEs at the European level as one of the Directors of euRobotics, as well as maintaining Shadow Robot's research engagements and policy programme.
Listen to our chat here: https://www.robottalk.org/2026/04/17/episode-152-rich-walker/
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Rich Walker is the Director of Shadow Robot Company. He worked initially on software and systems engineering before "jumping the fence" into management. Rich represents robotics SMEs at the European level as one of the Directors of euRobotics, as well as maintaining Shadow Robot's research engagements and policy programme.
Listen to our chat here: https://www.robottalk.org/2026/04/17/episode-152-rich-walker/
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Weekly output: Most Innovative Companies, Serve Robotics, Android 17, United Airlines’ ambitions, Polymarket’s pop-up bar
CHICAGO–This is one of my favorite cities in the U.S., but it doesn’t show up in my work travel as often as I’d like. So I’m delighted that the Online News Association decided to move its annual conference from late summer to early spring and then stage this year’s event here–in a hotel that should be familiar to everybody who’s seen The Fugitive.
Patreon readers got a bonus post that I’d meant to have written weeks earlier: a recap of MWC Barcelona in which I also gave away a global eSIM to the first reader to ask for it.
3/24/2026: The most innovative robotics and engineering companies of 2026, Fast Company
This list, the product of months of research and editorial back-and-forth, finally emerged online this week. And then we had to run a quick correction after one of the companies honored said that we’d mentioned an achievement that they did not want disclosed.
3/25/2026: Delivery Robots Have a Mapping Problem, PCMag
I sat down in a hotel lobby in Austin during SXSW with MJ Burk Chun, co-founder and vice president of product and design at Serve Robotics, to talk about the issues that company is working to address as it tries to scale up having four-wheeled robots cart food deliveries to customers.
3/27/2026: Google Ships Latest Android 17 Beta. Here’s What’s New, PCMag
In between having so many longer stories to write, I was happy to get one that I could bang out in an hour or so.
3/28/2026: United’s New Upgrades Aim to Keep You Online and Fully Charged at 35,000 Feet, PCMag
My week started with me flying to another one of United’s hubs–with the airline covering my airfare and lodging–for its United Elevated event at LAX. In addition to looping me into UA’s ambitions for its onboard product, this event doubled as a reunion with some of the avgeek journalists I met at Cranky Dorkfest in September and with my former Washington Post colleague Lori Aratani, who interviewed United CEO Scott Kirby onstage Tuesday morning.
3/29/2026: Pints meet prop bets: Polymarket’s “Situation Room” pop-up bar in DC, Ars Technica
I thought I saw an opportunity to write for this occasional client for the first time since the summer of 2023; fortunately, my editor then and now agreed.
#AIMIntelligentMachines #Android17 #Austin #BostonDynamics #Chicago #deliveryRobots #Dexterity #ForwardXRobotics #GlacierRobotics #Infravision #LAX #LosAngeles #LucidBots #ONA #OnlineNewsAssociation #ORD #Polymarket #predictionMarkets #RobustAi #ServeRobotics #sxsw #Symbotic #TerabaseEnergy #UA #United #UnitedAirlines -
Weekly output: Most Innovative Companies, Serve Robotics, Android 17, United Airlines’ ambitions, Polymarket’s pop-up bar
CHICAGO–This is one of my favorite cities in the U.S., but it doesn’t show up in my work travel as often as I’d like. So I’m delighted that the Online News Association decided to move its annual conference from late summer to early spring and then stage this year’s event here–in a hotel that should be familiar to everybody who’s seen The Fugitive.
Patreon readers got a bonus post that I’d meant to have written weeks earlier: a recap of MWC Barcelona in which I also gave away a global eSIM to the first reader to ask for it.
3/24/2026: The most innovative robotics and engineering companies of 2026, Fast Company
This list, the product of months of research and editorial back-and-forth, finally emerged online this week. And then we had to run a quick correction after one of the companies honored said that we’d mentioned an achievement that they did not want disclosed.
3/25/2026: Delivery Robots Have a Mapping Problem, PCMag
I sat down in a hotel lobby in Austin during SXSW with MJ Burk Chun, co-founder and vice president of product and design at Serve Robotics, to talk about the issues that company is working to address as it tries to scale up having four-wheeled robots cart food deliveries to customers.
3/27/2026: Google Ships Latest Android 17 Beta. Here’s What’s New, PCMag
In between having so many longer stories to write, I was happy to get one that I could bang out in an hour or so.
3/28/2026: United’s New Upgrades Aim to Keep You Online and Fully Charged at 35,000 Feet, PCMag
My week started with me flying to another one of United’s hubs–with the airline covering my airfare and lodging–for its United Elevated event at LAX. In addition to looping me into UA’s ambitions for its onboard product, this event doubled as a reunion with some of the avgeek journalists I met at Cranky Dorkfest in September and with my former Washington Post colleague Lori Aratani, who interviewed United CEO Scott Kirby onstage Tuesday morning.
3/29/2026: Pints meet prop bets: Polymarket’s “Situation Room” pop-up bar in DC, Ars Technica
I thought I saw an opportunity to write for this occasional client for the first time since the summer of 2023; fortunately, my editor then and now agreed.
#AIMIntelligentMachines #Android17 #Austin #BostonDynamics #Chicago #deliveryRobots #Dexterity #ForwardXRobotics #GlacierRobotics #Infravision #LAX #LosAngeles #LucidBots #ONA #OnlineNewsAssociation #ORD #Polymarket #predictionMarkets #RobustAi #ServeRobotics #sxsw #Symbotic #TerabaseEnergy #UA #United #UnitedAirlines -
#SMpinne nummer 1 i hopp för Alice ( #Kiebas Incredible) och Sara efter ett felfritt lopp på vastrahundsportcentrum.se #puglife #agilitycaddy Tack till logreklinikken.no och #Dexterity
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Weird nightly thought:
Is it just my midnight-brainfart or is there some relationship among vertebrates between how versatile their limbs can manipulate objects and how developed their reasoning abilities are?Like "a species that can't do opposed-thumb-kind-of-actions" doesn't benefit from expending resources on developing a brain that can analyse things for their opposed-thumb-kind-of-manipulatability"
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Essay by Rodney Brooks.
"In this post I explain why today’s humanoid robots will not learn how to be dexterous despite the hundreds of millions, or perhaps many billions of dollars, being donated by VCs and major tech companies to pay for their training."
https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dexterity/
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Essay by Rodney Brooks.
"In this post I explain why today’s humanoid robots will not learn how to be dexterous despite the hundreds of millions, or perhaps many billions of dollars, being donated by VCs and major tech companies to pay for their training."
https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dexterity/
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Why iRobot’s founder won’t go within 10 feet of today’s walking robots - When a robotics pioneer who has spent decades building human... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/why-irobots-founder-wont-go-within-10-feet-of-todays-walking-robots/ #aidevelopmenttools #agilityrobotics #machinelearning #rethinkrobotics #bostondynamics #humanoidrobots #walkingrobots #manipulation #rodneybrooks #airesearch #dexterity #elonmusk #robotics #optimus #robotai #biz #figure #irobot #openai #robots #ai
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Why iRobot’s founder won’t go within 10 feet of today’s walking robots - When a robotics pioneer who has spent decades building human... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/why-irobots-founder-wont-go-within-10-feet-of-todays-walking-robots/ #aidevelopmenttools #agilityrobotics #machinelearning #rethinkrobotics #bostondynamics #humanoidrobots #walkingrobots #manipulation #rodneybrooks #airesearch #dexterity #elonmusk #robotics #optimus #robotai #biz #figure #irobot #openai #robots #ai
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#RodneyBrooks: Despite significant investment, #humanoidrobots are unlikely to achieve #humanlevel #dexterity in the near future. The manipulation challenge remains a significant #hurdle, with existing #robotichands lacking the robustness, force, and longevity required for real-world applications. Humanoid robots will likely differ significantly from both current designs and human anatomy. https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dexterity/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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#RodneyBrooks: Despite significant investment, #humanoidrobots are unlikely to achieve #humanlevel #dexterity in the near future. The manipulation challenge remains a significant #hurdle, with existing #robotichands lacking the robustness, force, and longevity required for real-world applications. Humanoid robots will likely differ significantly from both current designs and human anatomy. https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dexterity/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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🤖 Ah, a blog post from an #AI guru explaining why #humanoids can't juggle, because obviously, the lack of #dexterity is the true crisis of our time! 🥴 Let's all hold our collective breath while we wait for the deployment of these majestic clumsy robots... any decade now! 🙄
https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dexterity/ #Juggling #Robotics #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated -
🤖 Ah, a blog post from an #AI guru explaining why #humanoids can't juggle, because obviously, the lack of #dexterity is the true crisis of our time! 🥴 Let's all hold our collective breath while we wait for the deployment of these majestic clumsy robots... any decade now! 🙄
https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dexterity/ #Juggling #Robotics #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated -
Why Today's Humanoids Won't Learn Dexterity
https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dexterity/
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Why Today's Humanoids Won't Learn Dexterity
https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dexterity/
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Hackaday Links: June 15, 2025 https://hackaday.com/2025/06/15/hackaday-links-june-15-2025/ #anthropomorphization #commercialization #HackadayColumns #death-cleaning #Hackadaylinks #hackadaylinks #self-driving #autonomous #dexterity #insurance #logistics #hoarding #robotaxi #figure #market #helix #tesla #Waymo
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Hackaday Links: June 15, 2025 https://hackaday.com/2025/06/15/hackaday-links-june-15-2025/ #anthropomorphization #commercialization #HackadayColumns #death-cleaning #Hackadaylinks #hackadaylinks #self-driving #autonomous #dexterity #insurance #logistics #hoarding #robotaxi #figure #market #helix #tesla #Waymo
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Hackaday Links: June 15, 2025 - Are robotaxis poised to be the Next Big Thing in North America? It seems so, at le... - https://hackaday.com/2025/06/15/hackaday-links-june-15-2025/ #anthropomorphization #commercialization #hackadaycolumns #death-cleaning #hackadaylinks #self-driving #autonomous #dexterity #insurance #logistics #hoarding #robotaxi #figure #market #helix #tesla #waymo
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Hackaday Links: June 15, 2025 - Are robotaxis poised to be the Next Big Thing in North America? It seems so, at le... - https://hackaday.com/2025/06/15/hackaday-links-june-15-2025/ #anthropomorphization #commercialization #hackadaycolumns #death-cleaning #hackadaylinks #self-driving #autonomous #dexterity #insurance #logistics #hoarding #robotaxi #figure #market #helix #tesla #waymo
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Hackaday Links: April 27, 2025 - Looks like the Simpsons had it right again, now that an Australian radio station h... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/27/hackaday-links-april-27-2025/ #anti-submarinewarfare #nitrogen-vacancy #hackadaycolumns #tecxt-to-speech #hackadaylinks #magnetomoter #radiostation #dexterity #hooverdam #deepfake #humanoid #quantum #robot #llm #ai #dj
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Hackaday Links: April 27, 2025 - Looks like the Simpsons had it right again, now that an Australian radio station h... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/27/hackaday-links-april-27-2025/ #anti-submarinewarfare #nitrogen-vacancy #hackadaycolumns #tecxt-to-speech #hackadaylinks #magnetomoter #radiostation #dexterity #hooverdam #deepfake #humanoid #quantum #robot #llm #ai #dj
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Hackaday Links: April 27, 2025 https://hackaday.com/2025/04/27/hackaday-links-april-27-2025/ #anti-submarinewarfare #nitrogen-vacancy #HackadayColumns #tecxt-to-speech #Hackadaylinks #hackadaylinks #magnetomoter #radiostation #dexterity #HooverDam #Deepfake #humanoid #quantum #robot #LLM #ai #dj
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Hackaday Links: April 27, 2025 https://hackaday.com/2025/04/27/hackaday-links-april-27-2025/ #anti-submarinewarfare #nitrogen-vacancy #HackadayColumns #tecxt-to-speech #Hackadaylinks #hackadaylinks #magnetomoter #radiostation #dexterity #HooverDam #Deepfake #humanoid #quantum #robot #LLM #ai #dj
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🤖 In a world where everyone and their mother is tripping over themselves to build a humanoid robot, it turns out making them remotely dexterous is still as elusive as a working hoverboard. 🚀 Apparently, it takes more than just buckets of venture capital to give a robot the grace of a drunken toddler. 🙃
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/robot-dexterity-still-seems-hard #humanoidrobots #roboticsinnovation #dexterity #challenges #venturecapital #HackerNews #ngated -
🤖 In a world where everyone and their mother is tripping over themselves to build a humanoid robot, it turns out making them remotely dexterous is still as elusive as a working hoverboard. 🚀 Apparently, it takes more than just buckets of venture capital to give a robot the grace of a drunken toddler. 🙃
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/robot-dexterity-still-seems-hard #humanoidrobots #roboticsinnovation #dexterity #challenges #venturecapital #HackerNews #ngated -
A quotation from Terry Pratchett
His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Night Watch (2002)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/pratchett-terry/5030…
#quote #quotes #quotation #cat #pratchett #terrypratchett #dexterity #lithe #simile
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🤖 AI / ROBOTICS
🔴 Dexterity Raises $95M at $1.65B Valuation🔸 AI robotics firm Dexterity raised $95M, backed by Lightspeed and Sumitomo.
🔸 Robots handle warehouse tasks for clients like FedEx and UPS.
🔸 CEO Samir Menon says robots use specialized AI models for specific tasks. -
4 Steps Toward Improved Digital Dexterity in 2024 https://visualmodo.com/4-steps-toward-improved-digital-dexterity-in-2024/ 🚀📣💡 #Improved #Digital #Dexterity #technologies