{"id":9684,"date":"2026-01-25T14:06:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T14:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/the-best-robot-handshake-ive-ever-had\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T14:06:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T14:06:26","slug":"the-best-robot-handshake-ive-ever-had","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/the-best-robot-handshake-ive-ever-had\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Robot Handshake I&#8217;ve Ever Had"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Allex, a humanoid robot from WIRobotics with a firm handshake that&#8217;s designed to solve one of the biggest problems <!--more--> facing robotics today.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Intro<br \/>\n0:07 Introducing ALLEX by WIRobotics<br \/>\n0:15 The Challenge: Robot Force Control<br \/>\n0:21 Hand Performance: Thumb-Finger Opposition<br \/>\n0:33 Precision, Control, and Dexterity<br \/>\n0:43 Safety and Human-Robot Interaction<br \/>\n0:57 Why Robot Handshakes Usually Fail<br \/>\n1:15 Autonomous Safety vs. Real Interaction<br \/>\n1:26 Back-drivability &amp; Flexible Motors<br \/>\n1:35 Testing the &#8220;Push Back&#8221; Force<br \/>\n1:48 Outro<\/p>\n<p>Add CNET as a trusted news source <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=cnet.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=cnet.com<\/a><br \/>\nNever miss a deal again! See CNET\u2019s browser extension \ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3lO7sOU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3lO7sOU<\/a><br \/>\nCheck out CNET\u2019s Amazon Storefront: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/shop\/cnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/shop\/cnet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to CNET on YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/cnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/cnet<\/a><br \/>\nFollow us on TikTok: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/<\/a>@cnetdotcom<br \/>\nFollow us on Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cnet<\/a><br \/>\nFollow us on Bluesky: <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cnet.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cnet.com<\/a><br \/>\nLike us on Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cnet<\/a><br \/>\nCNET&#8217;s AI Atlas: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/ai-atlas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/ai-atlas<\/a><br \/>\nFollow us on X: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.x.com\/cnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.x.com\/cnet<\/a><br \/>\nVisit CNET.com:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.cnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Allex, a humanoid robot from WIRobotics with a firm handshake that&#8217;s designed to solve one of the biggest problems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}