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  The Emerging Data Challenge in Dexterous Robot Hands from ICRA 2026

  Dexterous robotic hands have made significant progress in 2026, with advances in dexterity, tactile sensing, and real-world stability across a range of hardware platforms. As hardware matures, the field is turning its attention to a harder challenge, generating the large-scale, high-quality data needed to train dexterous manipulation systems.

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  Altair Scales Up for HPC Users at SC18

  Altair went big! Our SC presence this year was bigger than ever before. We added 10 feet to our booth space, an expansion that allowed us to host several activities simultaneously and have meaningful conversations with more booth visitors.

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  ATCx Prague Brings Simulation-Driven Innovation to the Czech CAE Community

  Prague is also the home to one of Altair’s most successful value-added resellers in Central Europe, Advanced Engineering s.r.o. who represents the HyperWorks and solidThinking channels for the Altair brand. As part of this relationship, Advanced Engineering, in conjunction with Altair, hosts its yearly technology conference – ATCx.

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  2018: Reflections of an Energetic Year Driving Product Innovation

  Altair completed 5 acquisitions throughout the year. Expanding thermal capabilities for Electronics, Altair acquired TES International’s technology, intellectual property, and other assets in February. Their main CFD software, ElectroFlo, is an electronics cooling package designed for high power-density applications.

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  From Leonardo Da Vinci to the 2019 NAIAS: A Journey through 500 Years of Transportation Ingenuity

  One remark from Mr. Rizzo’s speech that stuck in my mind is the fact that these inventions – if only they were not going to be lost and forgotten for centuries – could have anticipated the industrial revolution by centuries. Which takes me to what is happening this week in Detroit on the NAIAS stage.

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