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🚨 BREAKING: Meet AIR, a dual-arm humanoid built by @EmbodiedAI_ch for factory floors. The company is an EPFL spin-off, headquartered in Lausanne, opening an office in Rome. Founded by Francesco Stella, Kai Junge and Max Polzin, PhDs from EPFL, with backgrounds from MIT, ETH and Cambridge. The company is part of Google DeepMind accelerator and NVIDIA Inception member. The design choices tell you everything about their philosophy. Just have a look! No legs. An omnidirectional wheeled base instead. A 100kg biped losing balance next to an operator is a safety incident. Factory floors are flat, legs don't buy you anything there. Mass in the torso, not the arms. Light, tendon-driven arms mean no cage, and no fence required. The robot can stand next to a person on a production line. AIR drops into a workstation that already exists, so there's no need for line rebuild (less investment into infra). The deployment model is equally smart: → Productive from the first shift under remote operation → Learns the task from the work it performs → Becomes autonomous within months, teleoperation as fallback only Built for high-mix industrial work, kitting, assembly, cabling, machine tending. The tasks that defeat rigid single-purpose automation. Embodied AI is optimising for the constraint that actually decides whether a robot gets deployed: can it safely stand next to a human on a real factory floor? Europe building its own industrial robot workforce! 🇪🇺 VERY INTERESTING. Great to be onboard as one of the early investors! 🦾 ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news → ziegler.substack.com