Robotics1X showed a hand with 25 joints and claims it matches human dexterityThe new hands on the NEO robot have 25 movable joints and tendon-driven actuation with a gear ratio ten times lighter than the industry standard. The feel is what's new. That's how the hand senses how hard it's gripping. Per the company's data it handles LEGO, a screwdriver, a zipper, and pouring tea.RoboticsMistral released a model that navigates a robot with just one cameraOn July 8, Mistral announced Robostral Navigate - its first model for spatial robot navigation. The news is something else. The expensive half of the hardware bill disappears: the laser rangefinder and the depth sensors.RoboticsLeRobot v0.6.0 adds world models - the robot learns by imagining its next moveHugging Face released LeRobot v0.6.0: policies built on 'world models', new VLA models, reward models to score success, a unified CLI for evaluation, and six simulation benchmarks for robot learning.RoboticsMedia reported a deal for all of Boston Dynamics. On 16 July Hyundai announced it officially, without a price.As of July 13, 2026, neither Hyundai, nor SoftBank, nor Boston Dynamics has announced anything. The numbers - the remaining 9.65% for $325 million - come only from media. We wrote them up as done fact. Mistake.
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