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Why Robot Arms Cant Fold a Fitted Sheet
In this episode of The Robotics Podcast, Lucas and Luna tackle a deceptively simple household challenge: folding a fitted sheet. They explain why this task — combining deformable fabric, elastic corners, and complex geometry — remains a frontier problem for robotic manipulation. Lucas draws on research from MIT's CSAIL and Berkeley's AUTOLab, referencing specific papers on cloth manipulation and the 'memoization of folding trajectories' technique. Luna points out that even Amazon's warehouse robots sidestep the problem by using standardized packaging. The conversation…
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