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Sunday Robotics says its robot can fold clothes it has never seen in unfamiliar homes Original

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By Rya Jetha Verified
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In the race to bring autonomous robots into the home, Sunday Robotics says it has solved one of the field's hardest problems: getting a robot to work in homes and handle objects it has never seen before. On Thursday, the Bay Area-based startup unveiled ACT-2, a new AI model that powers Memo, its wheeled home robot. Sunday said that Memo folded laundry successfully more than 99% of the time when tested in unfamiliar homes, and on garments it had not been specifically trained to handle.
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A Red Bull engineer got bored with Formula One. His robotics startup just raised $55 million. Original

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By Rya Jetha Verified
| Business Insider Verified
A former Formula One engineer left the world's fastest race cars to tackle a much bigger engineering challenge: teaching robots to work in factories. Now, his Munich-based startup, microagi, has raised $55 million in the largest seed round secured by a German startup. Hummingbird led the round, with participation from Northzone, LocalGlobe, Village Global, and redalpine. microagi declined to disclose its valuation.
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お茶汲み、USB挿入、ジッパー開閉までこなす。1Xの「人間レベルの器用さ」を持つ新型ロボットハンドの全貌 | Business Insider Japan

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By Rya Jetha Verified
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1Xの新しいロボットハンド。 1X 実用的なヒューマノイドの開発をめぐる競争は、ハンドの性能が鍵を握る段階に入っている。 家庭用ヒューマノイド「NEO」を開発する1Xは2026年7月初旬、人間の性能に匹敵または凌駕すると主張する新しいロボットハンドを発表した。同社によると、このハンドはお茶を注いだり、ブドウを色別に仕分けたり、USB-C充電器を差し込んだり、手話でコミュニケーションを取ったりすることができるという。 ヒューマノイド企業各社は、イーロン・マスクが「ハンド問題」と呼ぶ課題、すなわち皮膚や筋肉をセンサー、モーター、ソフトウェアに置き換えることで人間の手と機械的に同等のものを作り出すという難題の解決に向けて取り組んできた。 人間の手は強さ、敏捷性、柔軟性を兼ね備えた極めて複雑な器官であるため、これは大きな挑戦となっている。ジャケットのジッパーを閉めたり、食器を洗ったりといった一見単純な作業でも、ロボットが長年習得に苦労してきた精緻な動きが求められる。 Business Insiderが1Xのプロダクト責任者、ダー・スリーパー（Dar...
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