In 2016, I said something that went against where robotics was heading at the time: vision alone doesn’t work for grasping.
Not “it needs improvement.” Not “the tech isn’t there yet.” It doesn’t fit the problem.
Grasping is physical. Contact, force, friction. Vision can guide the approach. It can’t feel what happens next.
Back then, we saw it in the lab. Tactile vibration data predicted grasp failure with 83% accuracy and detected slip at 92%. Early results, but clear enough. The signals that matter don’t show up in images.
Ten years later, the rest of the field is running into the same limit.
In 2016, I said something that went against where robotics was heading at the time: vision alone doesn’t work for grasping.
Not...
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