RLWRLD PARTNERS WITH NVIDIA ON ROBOT HAND BENCHMARK
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South Korean robotics startup RLWRLD is collaborating with Nvidia to create DexBench, a universal standard for measuring how effectively robots manipulate objects with their hands.
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