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Acknowledgment
This survey connects prior work from S1 robot hands, S4 humanoids, S6 manufacturing physical AI, and S9 NVIDIA physical AI, while treating large-data driven manipulation as its own subject.
This project was built using the Harness skill by Minho Hwang.
AI tools were used in the production of this work: Claude (Opus 4.6) for literature survey, content generation, and manuscript preparation.