The crumpled napkin wins. On a kitchen floor crowded with a spoon, a toy wheel, crumbs, and a wet patch, a robot can locate edges to fractions of a millimeter while missing the one item that should be picked up, avoided, or handed over. A toddler does not calculate the scene. It grasps the point.That gap is expensive. Robotic precision measures pose estimation, grasp force, and trajectory control;...More