Outlook Business Desk
French robotics startup Genesis AI unveiled GENE-26.5, a new robotic foundation system designed to help robots perform human-like tasks with improved hand precision, movement control and coordination across complex activities.
The company showcased robots cooking meals, solving Rubik’s cubes, handling lab pipetting tasks, carrying multiple objects together and playing piano in real time using advanced robotic hands.
According to Genesis AI, advanced AI models alone cannot solve robotics challenges. The company said human-like robot hands, precise motor control and realistic simulations are also necessary for building human-level robots.
Genesis AI showcased these abilities through Genesis Hand 1.0, a robotic hand designed with 20 degrees of freedom and soft-contact surfaces to mimic human hand movements more naturally.
Genesis AI said its robots are trained using human demonstrations, simulation environments and artificial intelligence systems to improve coordination, movement accuracy and object handling during tasks.
Meanwhile, Genesis AI also developed sensor-equipped gloves that capture human hand movements, grip patterns and pressure control, helping robots learn and imitate detailed hand actions more accurately.
Genesis AI CEO Zhou Xian told Business Insider that his 60-member team trained a robot to play a new piano song within one hour using human and robot training data together.
Genesis AI clarified that the robots are still not fully autonomous and need separate training for specific tasks. The company also acknowledged that delicate actions like cracking eggs still fail frequently.