Tactile skins, data factories, welding AI
MIT open sources a shear sensing tactile skin, Generative Bionics plans a humanoid data factory in Italy, and ESAB ships a cobot that plans its own weld path.
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Force models, backdoored planners, open arms
Eka bets on force instead of vision, a trigger word hijacks LLM robot planners, and open hardware gets a dual arm platform and five hands.
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Digit 5, Navy contracts, tactile data
Agility's Digit 5 bets on barrier-free humanoid safety, Gecko quadruples its Navy contract to $300M, and Daimon builds a tactile data pipeline.
Robot data, cobot software, local AI
Mecka AI raises $60M for robot training data, Universal Robots ships Gen 7 as a cobot lawsuit ends, and NVIDIA puts a petaflop of AI on Windows desks.
Zero-copy ROS 2 and a $10 tactile skin
ROS 2 gains zero-copy GPU buffers, a mission state that survives restarts, and SoTa tactile skins that make human demonstrations count.
The Robot Data Bottleneck Has Two Halves, and Only One Scales
Figure's Helix 2.5 shows human video scales robot policy, while four papers published the same week show what vision cannot see. Robot data is splitting in two.