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Steal This: Hemlock – Force-sensing wristband for training robotic AI (hemlock.inc)
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Every serious robotics lab is bottlenecked on the same thing: demonstration data. The field has converged on egocentric video and hand pose as the substrate, and both are now cheap to collect at scale. What neither of them contains is force. A video of someone picking up an egg and a video of someone picking up a rock are nearly identical in pixel space and nearly identical in joint angles. They differ almost entirely in a quantity nobody is recording. Policies trained without it learn geometry and inherit no sense of touch.

Hemlock closes that gap at the source. Our device, the Bracelet, i

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