Teaching Insight: Robot Grasping Progress is Cumulative, Not Revolutionary
DJiafei · x · 2026-08-23
While teaching a new class, the author revisited classical papers and observed that progress is often cumulative, not revolutionary. Enduring ideas are carried forward by better models, data, compute, and tools, tracing the evolution from optimal grasp planning to Dex-Net, Contact-GraspNet, and GraspGen.
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