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Why Robot Arms Still Can't Fold a Towel
Lucas and Luna dive into one of robotics' most deceptive challenges: deformable object manipulation. Why can a robot assemble a car engine but still fail to fold a towel or handle a bedsheet? The hosts break down the physics problem of infinite degrees of freedom in fabric, the limitations of current grippers and vision systems, and what breakthroughs like those from UC Berkeley's AUTOLab and researchers at MIT CSAIL mean for the future of laundry-folding robots. With specific examples from the SpeedFolding benchmark and the commercial struggles of laundry-folding startups, this…
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