🤖 Italian Startup Builds Robot with Sensor Skin

Italian startup Generative Bionics created the robot Gene.01 covered in sensor skin that tracks touch, temperature, proximity, and force. This lets it detect humans before contact and adjust movements.

Gene.01 learns by physical guidance instead of video. Holding its hand and moving it teaches the robot the right grip strength, solving a key challenge in humanoid robotics.

The robot is based on research from the Italian Institute of Technology published in Nature Machine Intelligence. It took six months to build Gene.01 from concept to a working humanoid.

Gene.01 is a platform for specialized robots with customizable AI, outer shells, and interchangeable limbs for different tasks.

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