New robots, new capabilities. Tracking what's coming for the workforce.
Robotics Tacta Systems laid out TactaBot's full specification on August 7. The five-fingered hand is not the story. The glove is: it records a skilled worker's force, motion, and temperature straight into the robot's training set.
Robotics DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2, announced July 30, controls a humanoid from feet to fingertips — and its own benchmark chart shows grippers still beating five-fingered hands.
Robotics 1X unveiled a 25-degree-of-freedom NEO hand with tactile sensing on every joint — the dexterity bottleneck that has kept humanoids out of real manual jobs.
Robotics Sanctuary AI reports a 99.5%+ success rate on a contact-rich wire-plugging task at a Tier 1 auto supplier — and quietly admits the win required no humanoid at all.