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Why Robot Arms Still Cant Handle a Sponge
Episode 93 of The Robotics Podcast: Lucas and Luna tackle one of the most deceptively hard manipulation tasks for industrial robot arms: picking up and squeezing a wet sponge. They break down the physics of soft, porous, compressible objects and why force control, tactile sensing, and real-time adaptation remain unsolved. Specific examples include the DLR's tactile gripper experiments and why Amazon's robotic sorters still avoid sponges. A concrete deep dive into why a three-dollar kitchen sponge is a million-dollar robotics problem.
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