Clone shows VR teleoperation of Torso 3''s hand — open/close, point and pinch tracked in real time; after six months rebuilding everything, Torso 4 lands in early November with zero gears anywhere
Robotics blogger CyberRobooo posted a 14s video of Clone Robotics (Wroclaw, Poland — the musculoskeletal android company) teleoperating the Torso 3 hand: VR-driven, tracking open-close, point and pinch gestures in real time. Founder Dhanushi Srad says the hand was built in May and is the last of their legacy hand designs; over the past six months the team has rebuilt the entire system from the ground up, aiming for better simulatability and controllability without giving up near-human capability — landing as Torso 4 in the first week of November, a fixed two-handed platform for enterprise tasks. Hard-tech detail worth noting: no gears anywhere in the system. Background: Clone is known for its Myofiber technology — a polymer skeleton mimicking all 206 human bones actuated by 1,000+ mesh-tube hydraulic artificial muscles (the hydraulic take on McKibbin pneumatic muscles); the Protoclone prototype unveiled in February made it famous, and Torso 3 (March) added joint-angle feedback in the hands and in-house valves. The blogger calls Clone "the humanoid company closest to the Westworld vibe."
