French robotics-focused start-up Genesis AI has released its first foundational model, GENE-26.5, along with a human-like hand built in-house that’s capable of carrying out complex tasks such as cooking or solving a Rubik’s Cube.
The company, which completed a $105 million (£77.2m) seed funding round in July of last year, began with a focus on a model to power real-world robotics, then built its own hand in order to have more accurate control over the full stack, said co-founder and chief executive Zhou Xian.
Unlike robotic hands built by dozens of other companies, which tend to have two or three fingers, the unit from Genesis AI closely resembles a human appendage, allowing data to be more directly transferred to the device.
Image credit: Genesis AI
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