One of these days, different fields of robotics will merge and give humans something to be really scared of. Genesis AI’s newest demonstration of its robot hands paired with, say, Honor’s Lightning robot would be legitimately terrifying. Imagine an artificial humanoid with the ability to outrun you and then make scrambled eggs directly afterwards.
Scary, right? Sure, people can already do that, but it’s much more freaky when a machine does it. Thankfully, Genesis AI’s robotic hands are an isolated contraption. They’re not attached to an overly mobile torso or anything just yet.
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That doesn’t mean that the robotics aren’t capable. The AI company has released several videos, which it claims show the appendages operating in real time. What’s more, they’re supposed to be working autonomously, guided by Genesis AI’s own GENE-26.5 AI model. The robot is capable of picking up multiple objects at once (and organising them), playing the piano, or preparing eggs.
It’s impressive enough, though the company says that its robot arms don’t get it right every time. Simpler tasks have a higher success rate, but the tougher stuff — the eggs in particular — fails about half the time. Still, the twenty-motor robot hands are impressively dextrous.
But not as impressive as the supposed autonomy. These hands, Genesis AI says, learn how to operate rather than being pre-programmed. The programming is a regular thing in some of Unitree’s robotic stunts (and others), with autonomous action being a rarer — and frequently funnier — beast.
