What Robot Hands Still Can't Do After 100 Episodes

The Robotics Podcast with Fexingo: Autonomous Systems, Industrial Robots, and Hardware · Jul 9, 2026 · 7m · transcript

For the 100th episode, Lucas and Luna step back from the parade of failures — toothpicks, grapes, wet paper towels — and ask what robot hands still can't do after decades of research. They look at the Berkeley 'Flying Pizza' experiment, where a robot flips a piece of dough mid-air and catches it, but still can't handle a single grape. They discuss the fundamental tension between precision and adaptability, why machine learning hasn't solved manipulation, and how the next decade of robotics might be defined not by better hardware but by smarter software. Along the way…