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Why Robot Arms Still Cant Peel a Potato
In this episode of The Robotics Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into one of the most deceptively difficult tasks for industrial robot arms: peeling a potato. Unlike gripping or cutting, peeling requires variable force, adaptive angle control, and real-time feedback to handle irregular shapes and changing surface properties. They discuss why the task remains a benchmark for dexterity, the latest research trying to crack it, and what it reveals about the gap between human and robotic manipulation. Drawing on work from MIT's soft robotics lab and a startup called DexRob, they explore tactile…
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