Genesis AI Unveils GENE-26.5: Full-Stack Robotic Brain Claiming Human-Level Physical Manipulation

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Khosla-backed Genesis AI released GENE-26.5, a robotic foundation model demonstrated performing 20-step meal prep (including one-handed egg cracking), high-precision lab experiments with pipetting, and in-air Rubik's Cube solving. The company revealed proprietary hardware — a dexterous robotic hand and tactile-sensing data glove — claimed to be 100x cheaper than existing teleoperation options and 5x more efficient at data collection, directly attacking the robotics data bottleneck. TechCrunch confirmed this as a full-stack strategy.