SF robotics week: $2,000 robot hand startup and weekend robot fights

Scobleizer shared a list of AI events packed into San Francisco this week, including a possible robot competition this weekend. At a robot fight event he met a founder of a stealth robot-hand startup using tiny geared motors instead of tendons, arguing Elon Musk will eventually switch to this approach and that cheaper hands are worth cheering.

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