Robotics & World Models Reading Club 12: Origami Robotics (YC W26) on Dexterity Benchmark — San Francisco 0613

Robotics & World Models Reading Club 12: Origami Robotics on Dexterity Benchmark — San Francisco A high-signal reading group for AI researchers & builders pushing the frontiers of robotic world models, WAMs, and embodied intelligence . In our previous sessions, we brought together researchers and engineers from Boston Dynamics, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Dyna, Physical Intelligence, Tesla, Generalist, Rhoda AI, and leading Bay Area robotics startups. Hosted by Junfan Zhu & Aurora Feng . ​​Reading Club 12's Core Theme: Dexterity Benchmark We Need Quanting (Daniel) Xie, Origami Robotics 2026 is shaping up to be the year of dexterity claims. Frontier robotics labs now advertise "human-level" and "dexterity-first" manipulation, and this spring alone three separate benchmark initiatives launched from industry, academia, and the standards community. No two of them measure dexterity the same way, and none can be compared head-to-head. The term itself is still poorly defined. Existing taxonomies cover only a narrow slice of manipulation, companies pick their own…