Actuators, sensors, dexterous hands, chips and the supply chain.
Thailand's Board of Investment approved five Chinese companies to make roller screws, actuators and structural parts for humanoids in the Eastern Economic Corridor, naming Tesla's Optimus as a target market.
Atlas's new hand has 13 degrees of freedom, no pinkie and direct-drive joints designed for sim-to-real training, as Hyundai starts training Atlas in Georgia and Rohit Prasad becomes CEO.
The 735 g ADH-5-13 has 13 active degrees of freedom, fingertip tactile sensing, ±0.2 mm repeatability and modules that can be replaced without taking the hand apart.
Sharpa launched D01, a dexterous robot with body-wide electronic skin, W02, a hand about 30% smaller than its predecessor with 21 active degrees of freedom, and AE01, a 22-encoder haptic glove for teleoperation data.
PSYONIC and Universal Robots integrated the six-motor, 30-sensor Ability Hand with UR's new g-Series arms and PolyScope X, programmable from the teach pendant.