About

About Being-H0.8

Being-H0.8 is BeingBeyond's tactile-aware latent world-action model for contact-rich robot manipulation. It combines internet-scale visuo-tactile pretraining, task-aligned human mid-training and robot post-training. TactoHand derives dense contact and proximity supervision from human video, while TopoHand maps human hands, dexterous robot hands and parallel grippers into a shared state-action representation.

BeingBeyond reports training data built around more than 500,000 hours of egocentric human video and demonstrates the model on two bimanual hardware configurations: paired ROKAE AR5 arms with LinkerHand L25 or DexHand 021 hands, and paired RealMan RM65 arms with Inspire grippers and DM-TAC W2M tactile sensors. The July 2026 release shows ten physical manipulation tasks; the accompanying paper remains marked as forthcoming.

Capabilities

Source-backed capabilities

Operating environments: BeingBeyond physical bimanual robot demonstrations
Tactile interaction sensing
Demonstrated - 2026-07-28 - Used contact-rich manipulation across hidden retrieval, force-controlled grasping and surface-contact tasks. - environment: BeingBeyond physical bimanual robot demonstrations
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Deformable-object manipulation
Demonstrated - 2026-07-28 - Squeezed toothpaste from a deformable tube as it emptied.; Adjusted grip force across fruits with different firmness. - environment: BeingBeyond physical bimanual robot demonstrations
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Object retrieval
Demonstrated - 2026-07-28 - Searched inside a soft bag and retrieved hidden items with the contents largely occluded. - environment: BeingBeyond physical bimanual robot demonstrations
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Force-controlled manipulation
Demonstrated - 2026-07-28 - Plucked one grape without crushing it.; Picked up brittle potato chips without breaking them.; Lifted a moving soft cake without deforming it. - environment: BeingBeyond physical bimanual robot demonstrations
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Dexterous manipulation
Demonstrated - 2026-07-28 - Controlled a soft brush to write calligraphy.; Polished a curved shoe surface while continuing through human intervention. - environment: BeingBeyond physical bimanual robot demonstrations
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Object manipulation
Research demonstration - 2026-07-28 - The ten tasks include deformable-object handling, hidden-item retrieval, brush calligraphy, delicate grasping, surface wiping and adaptive tool use.
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Flexible-material handling
Research demonstration - 2026-07-28 - The ten tasks include deformable-object handling, hidden-item retrieval, brush calligraphy, delicate grasping, surface wiping and adaptive tool use.
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Robotic surface cleaning
Demonstrated - 2026-07-28 - Wiped away a stubborn stain while maintaining surface pressure.; Cleaned a spill while a person added fresh liquid during the task. - environment: BeingBeyond physical bimanual robot demonstrations
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Research

Being-H0.8: A Latent Tactile World-Action Model at Scale
2026-07-28 - Research Publication - Being-H0.8 extends latent world-action modelling with tactile-aware interaction using contact and proximity supervision derived from large-scale human video.
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Timeline

Being-H0.8: A Latent Tactile World-Action Model at Scale
2026-07-28 - Research Publication - The demonstrations use paired ROKAE AR5 arms with interchangeable LinkerHand L25 or DexHand 021 hands, and paired RealMan RM65 arms with Inspire grippers and DM-TAC W2M tactile sensors. The ten tasks include deformable-object handling, hidden-item retrieval, brush calligraphy, delicate grasping, surface wiping and adaptive tool use. BeingBeyond presents these as physical model demonstrations; the accompanying paper is still marked as forthcoming and the published page does not specify the control mode.
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Context

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