ImplicitRDP: When Robots Stop Guessing and Start Feeling
Robots are very good at looking confident. Put a camera on a robot arm, train it with enough demonstrations, and it may glide toward a box, a switch, or a tool with the calm precision of something that understands the world. Then contact happens. The fingertip presses too hard. The switch has not actually toggled. The object slips, bends, jams, or quietly enters the expensive category known as “damaged inventory.” ...