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Why Robot Arms Still Cant Handle a Raw Egg
In this episode, Lucas and Luna tackle a deceptively simple challenge: why can't even the most advanced industrial robot arms crack a raw egg into a bowl without disaster? They dive into the physics of brittle shells, the problem of force control at milliseconds timescale, and why a five-year-old human outperforms a $100,000 robot at this task. Along the way, they reference the famous 'egg-cracking' dataset from the Robotic Grasping lab at MIT, and discuss a 2025 paper from UC Berkeley on visuotactile sensing that promises progress. If you think robot hands are close to human…
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