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Why Robot Arms Still Cant Pick Up a Slippery Fish
Episode 119 tackles one of the hardest unsolved problems in robotics: grasping slippery, deformable objects. Lucas and Luna examine why a wet fish — or a wet bar of soap, or a raw chicken breast — confounds even the most advanced grippers. They walk through the physics of high-friction, non-rigid surfaces, the limits of current tactile sensors, and a surprising breakthrough from a team at MIT using 'visuotactile' sensing. They also discuss how the seafood processing industry is funding research into fish-handling robots, and why the same tech could transform surgical robotics. By…
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