Simplexity Robotics uses robots to tend CNC lathes at 0.5 mm tolerance

At IROS 2026, Simplexity Robotics presented a robot that autonomously tends two CNC machines, grasping workpieces, loading them into chucks, and placing finished parts, with 0.5 mm clearance. The system was trained on only 600 real robot trajectories, using the SimpleWAM world action model, DRAM recurrent memory, and DPE candidate action scoring. The talk was reported as an edited transcript from the conference presentation.