REPORTER: "Relations between the U.S. and the U.K. have been a little bit up and down lately..." @POTUS: "No, I think they're up — well, they're more up now than they were with your last Prime Minister, let me put it that way." 🤣

Reportedly, the world's fastest high-DoF hand has been developed by LinkerBot, which also featured at the World Humanoid Robot Games finals. The Linker Hand L30 is a tendon-driven robot hand with 22 degrees of freedom, 18 of them actively driven and 4 passive. The company pitches it for research, medical assistance and precision industrial assembly. Cables act as tendons to pull the finger joints, the way tendons move a human hand. LinkerBot pairs them with high-resolution encoders and tendon-tension control, which it says gives the hand ±0.2 mm repeatability. Speed: full open or close in 0.2 s, finger flexion up to 363.6°/s, thumb flexion up to 450.35°/s Force: 9 N at each fingertip, 6.5 N at the thumb, 39 N five-finger grip, 15 kg maximum load Sensing: tactile sensor arrays in the fingertips Integration: CAN FD and Mini-USB, 500 Hz communication, 24 V DC, 1,192 g LinkerBot also makes the O6, a smaller linkage-driven hand with 6 active degrees of freedom, a 70 N grip and a listed weight of 360 g. Beijing-based LinkerBot closed a Series B+ round in April at a reported $3 billion valuation.

REPORTER: What are three things you'd want the legislature to get to your desk in the first 100 days? @ZachLahn: IWiLL funding... Farm Freedom Bills... Change economic incentive dollars to invest more money in Iowa's homegrown businesses and entrepreneurs.

Reporters from CNN, MS NOW and Politico were denied access to the White House after Pres. Trump announced he was banning the three news organizations from the White House. @OliviaRubinABC has details.