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PHYBOT Debuts PhyHand, a 23-DoF Direct-Drive Dexterous Hand, at the Canton Fair

10.19

PHYBOT, an embodied AI robotics company, gave the first public showing of its PhyHand series of fully direct-drive anthropomorphic dexterous hands at the 140th China Import and Export Fair, better…

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