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Robots still haven’t come close to replicating human and animal touch as a sense, and LLMs don’t do anything to help with that.


Have you seen what Boston dynamics has been up to? Progress is happening faster than you think.


So, they released a new gripper with touch sensors.

Then there's this article:

https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dex...

Talking about human hands having tens of thousands of receptors of several different types, and the difficulty of tasks like picking up a match, and the trouble with the project of learning dexterity by brute force.


I mean, even the human brain is broken up in different parts and the parts that do touch are insanely old compared to higher thinking. The LLM parts tell the robot parts the plate should go to the kitchen.




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