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It felt extra fake - the cherry picked people lacking rudimentary mechanical skills, using the ~$50K set of Franka Emika arms vs their default 'budget' ALOHA 2 grippers, the sheer luck that helped the robots put the belt on instead of removing it from the pulley.

The trick was in that the belt was too tight for an average human to put on with brute force, and disabling the tensioner or using tricks would require better than average mechanical skills their specially chosen 'random humans' lacked.




Yeah, they went WAY over the top when they told the human to "make it look hard." A significant distraction from how impressive the robot actually is.


All while the robot video was at 3x speed to even keep up with the human




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