TARS debuted their DexHand at the world's most prestigious robotics conference this week.
The hand has 21 degrees of freedom built at 1:1 human anatomical scale. Inside each fingertip: sensors that detect texture at 0.05mm resolution at over 240Hz. A human hair is 0.07mm wide. The hand is more sensitive than your skin, continuously, during active manipulation.
It doesn't just sense. Their TacForeSight model then predicts the dynamics of contact before it happens and adjusts grip before any camera registers the movement.
In March 2026, their A1 robot set a Guinness World Record: over 100 sub-millimeter wire harness assemblies in 60 minutes. Engineers call this task the Goldbach Conjecture of industrial automation. It has resisted automation for decades.
At ICRA, A1 packed a backpack live. Picked up stationery, sorted it, zipped it shut. When it dropped something it replanned and kept going. No reset. No human intervention.
Nearly $700 million raised. 2 years old. One Guinness record. Vienna was a statement.
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