As with AI. Robotics proved much more difficult in practice than early engineers assumed. The real world is strange, uneven, unexpected, and unstructured environment, exquisitely sensitive to things like pressure: picking up an egg, an apple, a brick, a child, and a bowl of soup all require extraordinary dexterity, sensitivity, strength, and balance. An environment like a kitchen or workshop is messy, filled with dangerous items, oil slick, and multiple different tools and materials. It’s a robot’s nightmare
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