We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube

Indeed, the robotics edge-case problem space complexity balloons far faster than most assume.

Physics informed training is a real methodology (simple introduction to the subject: https://www.youtube.com/@Eigensteve/videos ).

However, the slop article is 80% nonsense. =3

Just the hand, you have 50 things you just can’t do unless you have certain feel. Handling glass? Oh it’s greasy, now your rubber grip is screwed, now go wash it off, and dry it to start again.

Indeed, there is a whole category of Adaptive Compliant Grippers for specific use-cases like handling delicate brittle objects.

Things that randomly change shape or appearance are also very difficult to interact with safely. The force sensing platform from Universal Robots is safer for users, but it has limitations like all platforms. =3