Overview
- Genesis AI, which unveiled the GENE-26.5 model and a human-like hand on Wednesday, released videos of robots cooking, wiring, playing piano, and solving a Rubik’s Cube.
- The company says the runs were autonomous at normal speed but each skill was trained for the specific task rather than zero-shot.
- CEO Zhou Xian reported most cooking steps reached about 90% to 95% success, while one-handed egg cracking and moving chopped tomato with a knife were near 50% to 60%.
- Training draws on internet videos, sensor gloves that workers could wear to capture hand motion and touch, and an in-house simulator.
- Genesis is courting manufacturers in France, Germany, and Italy after a $105 million seed round, focusing on a full-stack platform that includes a 20-degree-of-freedom hand and a planned full-body robot.