Mechanical Engineering
A robot welds a car body to a tenth of a millimetre all day. Ask it to pick a sock out of a basket and it cannot
22 Sept 2026 · 9 min read
Industrial robots are superhuman at precision and repetition, and worse than a toddler at handling unfamiliar objects. The gap is not intelligence — it is that factories are built around robots, and the rest of the world is not.
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