Soft Manipulation,

Tactile Sensing,

and Course Wrap-Up

MIT 6.800/6.843:

Robotic Manipulation

Fall 2021, Lecture 23

Follow live at https://slides.com/d/XlrZxAk/live

(or later at https://slides.com/russtedrake/fall21-lec23)

Project PUNYO

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Project PUNYO

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Inductive sensing of displacement / force on Punyo

http://stag.csail.mit.edu/

Soft simulation

Finite Element Models + MultibodyPlant in Drake

Course Wrap-up

​What's still hard for AI by Kai-Fu Lee:

1. AI cannot create, conceptualize, or manage complex strategic planning.

2. AI cannot accomplish complex work that requires precise hand-eye coordination.

3. AI cannot deal with unknown and unstructured spaces, especially ones that it hasn’t observed.

4. AI cannot, unlike humans, feel or interact with empathy and compassion; therefore, it is unlikely that humans would opt for interacting with an apathetic robot for traditional communication services.