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Why Robot Arms Still Cant Recognize Their Own Position
Episode 40 of The Robotics Podcast dives into a fundamental challenge in robotics: proprioception, or the ability of a robot arm to know where it is in space without external sensors. Lucas and Luna explore why even advanced industrial robots can lose track of their position after a collision or drift, and how researchers are using new sensor fusion techniques and AI-based calibration to solve this. The episode focuses on a case study from a 2025 IEEE paper on 'self-aware' robot arms that use joint torque sensors and neural networks to estimate pose with millimeter accuracy. Lucas…
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