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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Humanoids and humans are increasingly sharing <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/ai-humanoids\/boston-dynamics-production-atlas-hyundai\/?itm_source=newatlas&itm_medium=article-body\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">factory floors<\/a>, but one is made of metal and the other of flesh and bones, a mismatch that rarely ends well for us in a collision. Italian startup Generative Bionics thinks it has a fix: a humanoid robot covered in sensing skin that feels people approaching and adjusts its movements before any contact occurs.<\/p>\n<p>The robot, called Gene.01, is wrapped in a network of sensors running from its torso to its limbs. This smart skin tracks touch, temperature, proximity, and force simultaneously, letting the robot anticipate a person\u2019s presence and react before and during contact. It\u2019s a bit like pulling your hand away from a hot stove before you actually touch it. The heat you feel from a distance is enough to make you stop.<\/p>\n<p>The same sensors let humans physically teach the robot new tasks. Rather than only showing Gene.01 a movement on video, a person can guide its arm directly, helping it learn exactly how much force to apply. Generative Bionics says this solves one of humanoid robotics\u2019 persistent headaches: teaching a machine to grip an object firmly enough that it doesn\u2019t drop it but gently enough that it doesn\u2019t crush it \u2013 a skill that\u2019s hard to learn from video alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanoids and humans are increasingly sharing factory floors, but one is made of metal and the other of flesh and bones, a mismatch that rarely ends well for us in a collision. Italian startup Generative Bionics thinks it has a fix: a humanoid robot covered in sensing skin that feels people approaching and adjusts its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}