The Heart of Robotic Manipulation - Matthew T. Mason Contact is the heart of robotic manipulation. To understand manipulation, you must understand contact.

I pushed out another blog post! How to close a drawer, how to do just about any manipulation, based on techniques described by Dan Whitney in a talk I attended about 50 years ago.

It is only an eight-minute read. Hope you like it.
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The Inner Robot - Matthew T. Mason How our subconscious processes mislead us on the nature of human manipulation, by managing it brilliantly and quietly.

Time for another blog post -- "The Inner Robot" -- on how our subconscious processes mislead us on the nature of human manipulation, by managing it brilliantly and quietly. Hope you find it rewarding. It is a seven-minute read.

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Extrapoluscious

The T-Shirt folding law looks well and alive ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The Beetle Roboticists: A Parable - Matthew T. Mason How do we assess ideas about humanoids, without our anthropocentric bias? Maybe if the ideas were being pushed by another species. Beetles?

I just posted my 2nd blog post.
Here's the idea: How do we assess ideas about humanoids, without our anthropocentric bias? Maybe if the ideas were being pushed by another species. Beetles?
It's only a four-minute read.

mtmason.com/the-beetle-r...