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Why Robot Arms Still Cant Handle a Swinging Pendulum
In this episode of The Robotics Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore why robot arms struggle with dynamic manipulation tasks like catching or stabilising a swinging pendulum. They break down the physics of inertia, torque limits, and sensor latency that make fast-moving, continuously changing objects a nightmare for industrial robot controllers. Using the concrete example of a 1-kilogram pendulum swinging at 2 meters per second, Lucas explains why state-of-the-art robots still fail to predict and intercept such motion reliably. The conversation touches on recent research from MIT's CSAIL, the…
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