🍇 Grape expectations

July 19, 2026

Turns out the biggest challenge in robotics wasn’t teaching machines to walk. It was convincing them not to Hulk-smash everything they touch. Super important when it comes to folding fitted sheets. 

@BerntBornich via X

NEO showed off tendon-driven hands with 25 degrees of freedom, delicately unzipping zippers, picking individual grapes off a stem and assembling LEGO like a very patient kid avoiding the instruction manual. 

Think of it as placing a forklift in the hands of a watchmaker. The whole humanoid robot race comes down to fingertips. I saw a robot charging itself once. Re-volting.

Look at it go!