A Brooklyn startup called Kyber Labs showed a tendon-driven robotic hand running an entire 42-step lab sequence on its own, moving test tubes, pipetting liquids, spinning a centrifuge, and operating a vortex mixer in one continuous take. The approach relies on reusable low-level manipulation primitives that a higher-level planner strings together on the fly, aiming for reliability and auditability in settings like clinical pathology where full end-to-end learning can be hard to verify.
A cool wet-lab demo from @KyberLabsRobots. The hand is incredibly fast, but also shows the importance of human-level dexterity in performing many tasks that currently are not automated.
Kyber Labs is a NYC-based startup.
Instead of a single learned policy, the system composes deterministic primitives such as gripping a pipette or activating the centrifuge, which could make the workflow easier to inspect or adapt for regulated environments.
Public clips and posts emphasize one-take execution without resets, yet details on recovering from physical bumps or disturbances during this exact 42-step run are not confirmed in available sources.
Users are amazed by the Kyber Labs robotic hand automating wet-lab workflows, calling it mechanical engineering supremacy and reacting with excitement to its responsive videos.
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@chris_j_paxton @KyberLabsRobots this is mechanical engineering supremacy. so amazed by the other video you posted of it getting interrupted with someones hand!
A cool wet-lab demo from @KyberLabsRobots. The hand is incredibly fast, but also shows the importance of human-level dexterity in performing many tasks that currently are not automated.
Kyber Labs is a NYC-based startup.
@chris_j_paxton @KyberLabsRobots wow!
@chris_j_paxton @KyberLabsRobots Goodbye jobs hello automation This is enough for effectively every job not requiring a creative touch