# \#physical-ai

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## [HX Friends – Open-Source Hands & Grippers](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/hx-friends-open-source-hands-grippers/58996)

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**Author:** [@Pyo](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Pyo)\
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**Last updated:** [October 20, 2026, 10:03pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/hx-friends-open-source-hands-grippers/58996 "2026-10-20T22:03:04Z")

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We are releasing HX Friends, an open-source collection of robotic hand and gripper reference designs built on DYNAMIXEL. Many university labs and companies already use DYNAMIXEL actuators to build and shar…

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## [Teaching Robots to Feel with AI Worker Tactile Imitation Learning](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/teaching-robots-to-feel-with-ai-worker-tactile-imitation-learning/58932)

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**Author:** [@Pyo](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Pyo)\
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**Last updated:** [October 18, 2026, 11:05pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/teaching-robots-to-feel-with-ai-worker-tactile-imitation-learning/58932 "2026-10-18T23:05:40Z")

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Anyone who has trained vision-based imitation learning policies knows where cameras hit their limit: contact-rich manipulation with deformable objects. Recently, we tested a bimanual paper cup unstacking a…

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## [Tenure-Line Faculty Positions in Physical AI @ Penn State College of IST in University Park, PA](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/tenure-line-faculty-positions-in-physical-ai-penn-state-college-of-ist-in-university-park-pa/58673)

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**Author:** [@YC01](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/YC01)\
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**Last updated:** [October 7, 2026, 9:30pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/tenure-line-faculty-positions-in-physical-ai-penn-state-college-of-ist-in-university-park-pa/58673 "2026-10-07T21:30:45Z")

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The Department of Human-Centered Computing and Social Informatics in the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at Penn State is hiring multiple tenure-line faculty at the Assistant or Associate Professor r…

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## [Robotics / Hardware Engineer @ Lumen Labs in San Francisco, CA](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/robotics-hardware-engineer-lumen-labs-in-san-francisco-ca/58093)

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**Author:** [@Daniel\_Van\_Zant](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Daniel_Van_Zant)\
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**Last updated:** [September 14, 2026, 12:23am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/robotics-hardware-engineer-lumen-labs-in-san-francisco-ca/58093 "2026-09-14T00:23:37Z")

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Howdy y’all, We’re Lumen Labs, a funded pre-seed physical AI startup in San Francisco. Nearly every major robotics effort today teaches machines. by showing them thousands of hours of human teleoperation. We think that…

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## [Founding Robotics Engineer @ Merista.ai in Barcelona, Spain](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/founding-robotics-engineer-merista-ai-in-barcelona-spain/57950)

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**Author:** [@vasart](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/vasart)\
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**Last updated:** [September 8, 2026, 1:48pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/founding-robotics-engineer-merista-ai-in-barcelona-spain/57950 "2026-09-08T13:48:52Z")

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Merista builds the physical AI workforce for food production. This is our founding team robotics hire, reporting to the CTO, owning the robot’s mind, and everything between intent and motion. Full-time and on-site in Bar…

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## [Running Next-Generation LeRobot Policies using lerobot-robot-ros2-zenoh SDK](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/running-next-generation-lerobot-policies-using-lerobot-robot-ros2-zenoh-sdk/57625)

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**Author:** [@Pyo](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Pyo)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 8, 2026, 12:27am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/running-next-generation-lerobot-policies-using-lerobot-robot-ros2-zenoh-sdk/57625 "2026-09-08T00:27:54Z")

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How can we quickly bring the latest robot learning models from the Hugging Face LeRobot ecosystem to real robots? That question drove our latest hands-on experiment. Using our open-source lerobot-robot-ro…

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## [Where does an intent-validation layer sit relative to Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard and to ROS 2?](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/where-does-an-intent-validation-layer-sit-relative-to-anthropics-model-hardware-standard-and-to-ros-2/57725)

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**Author:** [@Ido\_Yahalomi](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Ido_Yahalomi)\
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**Last updated:** [September 1, 2026, 5:36am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/where-does-an-intent-validation-layer-sit-relative-to-anthropics-model-hardware-standard-and-to-ros-2/57725 "2026-09-01T05:36:15Z")

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Anthropic previewed the Model Hardware Standard this week: a driver standard for AI agents operating equipment (read/write primitives, discovery, a per-device reference file of what it measures, adjusts, and refuses), mo…

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## [ROS Keeps Evolving via Physical AI SIG](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-keeps-evolving-via-physical-ai-sig/57495)

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**Author:** [@Katherine\_Scott](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Katherine_Scott)\
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**Last updated:** [August 18, 2026, 5:12pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-keeps-evolving-via-physical-ai-sig/57495 "2026-08-18T17:12:24Z")

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The OSRA, in collaboration with our new Special Interest Group on Physical AI (SIG PAI), just published a blog post that details their recent efforts, thought processes, and roadmap for the future of Physical AI and ROS.…

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## [Physical AI Open-source Platform: CYCLO](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/physical-ai-open-source-platform-cyclo/57201)

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**Author:** [@Pyo](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Pyo)\
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**Last updated:** [August 6, 2026, 7:35am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/physical-ai-open-source-platform-cyclo/57201 "2026-08-06T07:35:32Z")

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Physical AI Open-source Platform: CYCLO Building Physical AI systems often means dealing with fragmented tools for data, training, simulation, and hardware control. To solve this, our team developed CYCLO…