Robotics

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Monday, 13 July 2026

Home robots already walk. 1X's new hands try to solve the part that actually matters

TLDR 3 days ago

1X equipped its NEO humanoid robot with new hands featuring 25 joints and tactile sensors that can detect pressure and sideways movement to prevent dropping objects. Each hand includes 22 degrees of freedom across the fingers and palm plus three in the wrist, with backdrivable joints that yield when pushed rather than lock rigid. The hands address the core limitation holding back home robots: while walking is solved, manipulation of everyday objects in unpredictable home environments remains the actual engineering challenge.

Computer Vision Dexterity & Manipulation Humanoid Robots Robotics

Building a Foundation Stack for General-Purpose Robots

IEEE Spectrum AI 3 days ago

X Square Robot, a Chinese robotics company, has developed an integrated foundation stack for general-purpose robots consisting of data collection, a world model (WALL-WM), and an action model (Wall-OSS-0.5) designed to work together as interdependent layers. The company reports achieving performance comparable to all-robot datasets at roughly 20-fold lower collection cost by combining robot-free demonstrations captured with a wearable rig with small amounts of real-robot data. The approach emphasizes data quality through physical playback validation, event-based world modeling rather than fixed-length predictions, and semantic action tokenization that transfers across different robots without retuning.

AI Training Data Foundation Models Robotics