Safety by Design, Autonomy Within a Month
Embodied AI, spun out of EPFL, showed AIR at Humanoid Europe 2026 in Munich on 6 November: a two-armed humanoid on wheels, with motors, gearboxes and electronics kept in the torso and light tendon-driven arms that yield on contact, designed under ISO/TS 15066 with CE marking planned for 2027. Each job starts under a human operator; every run is recorded, and the company says the stack typically reaches autonomy on that task in about a month, with an operator retained for the unfamiliar and skills transferable between units. The 98% cable-handling result against a 90% target was achieved by its earlier two-arm industrial cell, not by AIR — a distinction the company makes explicit and that v4’s dexterity story should carry.