Westlake Robotics' WR1 Brain Has Two Humanoids Fold Trousers With Dexterous Hands

Westlake Robotics' WR1 Brain Has Two Humanoids Fold Trousers With Dexterous Hands

Westlake Robotics, the Hangzhou robotics company spun out of Westlake University, has released WR1, which it calls a general brain for humanoid robots. In demonstration footage published on October 9, a humanoid running WR1 takes corn from a fridge, makes a smooth U-turn to an air fryer, squats to drag a storage basket and tidy scattered plush toys, then walks to the bedroom to straighten a quilt, without stopping to reset between rooms. The com…