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Why Robot Hands Still Cant Handle a Live Wire
Episode 50 of The Robotics Podcast tackles why robot hands still can't handle a live wire. Lucas and Luna dive into the specific challenges of robotic manipulation with flexible, energized cables — a problem that plagues everything from factory wiring to home-assistance bots. They break down the physics: why compliant grippers fail with limp wires, why force sensing goes haywire with current, and how a team at MIT's CSAIL recently got a robot to plug in a charging cable with 80% success. Along the way, they compare to prior episodes on wet objects and slippery soap, and explore what…
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