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Morning Edition · Saturday, August 8, 2026Published at 2:26 AM EDT · New York
Persona AI Shows Its Gen 1 Humanoid Welding Under Teleoperation Ahead of a Hyundai Shipyard Deployment
The Houston company is using human-piloted runs to collect the demonstration data it needs before attempting autonomous welding, with a prototype targeted for the end of 2026.
Persona AI released footage of its Gen 1 humanoid completing a welding task inside an industrial fabrication shop in Houston. The robot was not acting autonomously. A human operator drove it through virtual reality (VR) teleoperation, and t…
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