A robot hand wiping some egg off its fingers with a towel is the most bizarrely human thing you'll see a robot do all week, and it's just the beginning
A glove, some cameras, and a very special robot hand
by https://www.techradar.com/uk/author/lance-ulanoff · TechRadarNews By Lance Ulanoff published 6 May 2026
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- Genesis AI robot hands handle frontier tasks
- They can make eggs and solve a Rubik's Cube
- The training is done, in part, via low-cost, wearable gloves
If there's a single hurdle preventing humanoid robots from entering our homes and workplaces, it might be "frontier tasks". These are complex, multi-step tasks like operating as a lab assistant, solving a Rubik's Cube, or making a delicious smoothie or omelet. They're the kind of things most humans can do without thinking, but for robots and AI, it's darn near impossible to match your average lab tech or short-order cook at these skills.
Today, though, I watched a robot casually wipe some egg yolk off its fingers as it prepped some lightly scrambled eggs. It was such a normal thing to do in the course of successfully cooking a meal that, for a second, I forgot I was watching some disembodied robot hands accomplish the task.
Those same highly dexterous robot hands, all built and programmed by Genesis AI, also solved a Rubik's Cube, did more than passable lab assistant work, and even made a delicious-looking purple smoothie. The hands, part of a three-part system for AI development, training, and deployment, look set to change how we think about robots at home and in the workplace.
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"I don't know, if you know this," Vivian Sun, Genesis AI's Vice President of Commercial and Strategy, told me, "80% of human labor are doing it with their hands." This, it turns out, presents a huge problem with our long-dreamed-of and fast-approaching robotics future. The kind of work we do with our hands takes human-level (which is considerable) patience, skill, and dexterity.
Making and training a believable robot hand
Solving that problem and delivering a solution to its Fortune 500 customers who have a multitude of use cases for such robots became a priority for Genesis AI. The solution was not just a robot or even an algorithm. It's an end-to-end solution that starts with data collection and a set of proprietary gloves.
Trainers wear the thin, wireless gloves, which are covered in sensors and even include a camera, while they perform these frontier tasks, like making an egg, hundreds of times. "[It's] the most natural way to interact with the physical world," explained Sun.
Those same trainers are also wearing a head-mounted camera to watch how, for instance, a human breaks an egg.
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