AthenaZero: A Bimanual Manipulator as Light as a Human Arm

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Loading videoRAI AthenaZero, featured in Science Robotics, moves motors to the base and uses high-torque direct drives so its moving parts weigh about as much as a human arm, roughly ten times lighter than typical industrial robots, enabling baseball-style throwing, catching and batting demos.
Category: arm
Author: @rai_inst
Date: 2026-09-22T00:00:00
Duration: 59.059s





