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Why Robot Hands Still Can't Handle a Deck of Cards
Lucas and Luna dive into the surprisingly difficult problem of robot manipulation of playing cards. They explore the tactile sensing challenges, the physics of thin flexible objects, and how a 2025 paper from MIT's CSAIL lab used a custom gripper with 64 pressure sensors to achieve a 73 percent success rate at picking up a single card from a deck. The hosts discuss why this matters for industries like logistics and food packaging, and what it reveals about the gap between human dexterity and current robotics. A focused look at one of the hardest remaining problems in robotic…
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