$100 bounty sparks robot hand race: teleop setup picks cards off a table
mattfreed · x · 2026-10-08
Responding to Andrew McCalip's $100 bounty (with Matt Huang possibly matching) for a robot hand picking cards off a table, mattfreed posted a teleop-recorded video of a prior-gen hand making the pickup. He notes the teleop setup—not the hand—was the limiting factor for cleaner grabs.
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