WIRobotics is teaching humanoid robots to use human tools, focusing on the task of using a power drill, as part of the Physical AI Fellowship powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), NVIDIA, and MassRobotics. The company partnered with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center and NVIDIA to build a cloud-based training workflow for fine-tuning NVIDIA’s GR00T N1.7 robotic foundation model on real teleoperation data from its robot, ALLEX. Designed to operate in environments built for people, ALLEX combines dexterous hands with whole-body force sensing across its 48-degree-of-freedom upper body, allowing for responsive physical interaction. Before the fellowship, WIRobotics had demonstrated learning-based control on ALLEX using a lightweight imitation learning model known as ACT, enabling single-arm pick-and-place tasks. The next challenge is contact-rich, bimanual manipulation, the kind of work required for fastening.