"Economic growth accompanied by worsening social outcomes is not success, it is failure." --Jacinda Ardern

Robotics has a teleoperation problem. Teleoperation used to be the only way to collect high quality demonstrations to post-train your robot. There was no way around the slow task completion speed (often 5x slower than a person!) and $100+/hr operation cost. That's not the case anymore. We're proving, along with Sunday, Generalist, Reward, Chestnut, and more, that collecting data directly from people wearing sensorized backpacks, caps, and gloves produces data that is not only much cheaper, but better than teleoperation data once you put in the good old-fashioned engineering. Unlike egocentric video, this kind of system turns people’s hands into robot look-alikes with grippers, mitts, or gloves that match the kinematics, contact surfaces, and sensing of the robot hand so it can be used for post-training. At @dreamrobotics_ , we take sensorized human data a step beyond. Our wearable is intuitive and dexterous, so much so that workers in real businesses can collect data on the job. Plus, patent-pending tactile, spatial sensors (lidar), and 4K HDR cameras give the robots information that no one else is collecting. We do this all in a one-pound backpack that costs less than $400 total, less than the cost of a single Insta360 camera, which we could only achieve by building our own edge computers, tactile sensors, and cameras. Huge shout-out to my team for making this possible! #physicalAI #AI #robotics #DreamRobotics #data #teleoperation #posttraining

H2-X has hooks in place of hands for this lift. That looks like an older Nissan Sylphy, around 1.2 metric tons in stock form. By that estimate, lifting the front wheels off the ground could put roughly half a metric ton across the two hooks. What do you think?

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But Huawei's Ascend 950DT jumped 60% to ¥250K/chip. Mass shipments won't start until late 2026. Meanwhile, Musk warns the U.S. is "producing more chips than we can turn on." China has the power. The U.S. has the silicon. Which bottleneck breaks first?

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BYD wants two or three humanoid robots in every showroom, helping sell its cars. Stella Li laid out the goal in a June interview: explain the vehicles, demonstrate features and work alongside human salespeople. Now a newly published Chinese design patent gives us a closer look at BYD’s humanoid project, following its “Xiao Di” teaser in July. HKUST also lists a BYD-funded research project on vision-language-action robots specifically for car dealerships. That’s close to XPENG’s positioning for IRON: start with a clear job in their own showrooms, helping sales staff explain and demonstrate the cars. BYD already has the vehicles, dealer network and customer traffic to test the idea. For automakers, this is a way to get an early start in robotics through the business they already run. The value doesn’t depend on big labor savings from day one.

『ウェアラブル型モーターレスリーダーアーム』 双腕ロボットを直感的に遠隔操作し、人間の自然な手先・腕の動きのデータ(AI学習用モーションデータ)を低コスト・ストレスフリーで収集。 youtu.be/coXbjhEO_m8 #PhysicalAI #OpenArm #KER #teleoperation #OpenSource #ImitationLearning #Enactic

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