GENE-26.5

Genesis AI's first robotics foundation model system, released in May 2026, focused on dexterous manipulation.

GENE-26.5 was released on May 7, 2026 by the robotics company Genesis AI, the first public version of its GENE model family — the “26.5” in the name refers to May 2026. The company frames manipulation as a full-stack systems problem: using a high-DOF dexterous hand close to a human hand to narrow the embodiment gap; collecting human data with a tactile-equipped data glove plus first-person and third-person video (more than 200,000 hours total with partners); modeling the joint distribution of language, vision, proprioception, touch, and action with flow matching; running large-scale closed-loop evaluation in the company's own high-fidelity simulator, Genesis World; and building its own low-latency control stack. The company says most difficult skills need less than an hour of task-specific robot data.

ExampleIn an official demo, the same model autonomously completed a roughly 4-minute cooking routine of more than 20 sub-tasks at normal speed, including cracking an egg one-handed and holding a tomato steady with one hand while cutting it with the other.

Also called

GENE

Related

Genesis AI · Genesis · Dexterous Hand · Tactile Glove · Flow Matching · Embodiment Gap

Sources

GENE-26.5: Advancing Robotic Manipulation to Human Level (Genesis AI Blog)

As of

2026-05