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Why Robot Arms Still Can't Fold a Towel
Lucas and Luna dive into the surprisingly difficult problem of robotic fabric manipulation. Why can robots assemble a car engine but fail to fold a simple bath towel? The hosts break down the physics of deformable objects, the limitations of current computer vision when faced with a continuously changing shape, and the state of research in 2026. They discuss why the $12 billion laundry automation industry is still waiting for its breakthrough, and what a new MIT paper on differentiable cloth simulation might mean for the future.
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