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Why Robot Arms Still Cant Sort a Bin of Mixed Parts
In episode 151 of The Robotics Podcast, Lucas and Luna dig into one of the most stubborn unsolved problems in industrial robotics: why a robot arm still can't reliably pick a single screw from a bin full of mixed parts. They break down the bin-picking challenge, the physics of contact and jamming, and the algorithm that made headlines last quarter — the one that finally cleared a real factory's fastener bin at 99.1 percent success. They talk about why force sensing matters more than vision, how the system learns from its own failures, and what this means for the next wave of…
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