YC-affiliated team offers $500k and free YAM arms for dexterous manipulation benchmarks
ycombinator · x · 2026-09-04
A YC-affiliated team is giving academic groups $500k plus free YAM robotic arms to design dexterous manipulation benchmarks and run real-world evaluations, arguing society should know what robots can do before general-purpose robots reach homes and data centers.
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