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Teaching a robot to feel what is inside a sealed cup

At the Viam Physical AI hackathon in San Francisco on October 29 and 30, Sree Dhyuti Nimmagadda and I taught a robot arm to identify what is inside a sealed coffee cup from its joint torques alone. No camera looks inside the cup. The arm lifts it, swirls it, and predicts. The timing fit: it ran two…

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  1. 2026-11-10 21:43 · DEV Community — AI
    Teaching a robot to feel what is inside a sealed cup

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