https://newatlas.com/robotics/sanctuary-phoenix-autonomous-speed-hands/
"You've seen a ton of videos of humanoid robots – but this one feels different.
It's Sanctuary's Phoenix bot, with "the world's best robot hands," working
totally autonomously at near-human speeds – much faster than Tesla's or
Figure's robots.
Canadian company Sanctuary AI has been accelerating its own progress toward
general-purpose humanoids, using teleoperation to show Phoenix how to do
things, and letting it go away and figure out more in simulation.
Phoenix is an odd duck in this space, in that the Sanctuary team hasn't got it
up and walking yet, deciding to let others figure that bit out so its team can
focus on the nitty gritty of work behaviors. Thus, it sits on a decidedly
unsexy wheeled platform, but it has some of the most finely-tuned and
human-like hands out of anything we've ever seen.
And it's also starting to move in a way that's much faster, more fluid and
natural-looking than anything else in the space. Take a look – and remember,
this is fully autonomous. Phoenix has been trained by human operators, but now
it's doing this task all by itself.
That kind of motion feels like a marked step change in the humanoid field. It's
pretty dang impressive. But how has Phoenix accelerated past the pack here?"
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
