OK-Robot is super impressive, but there is a huge difference in the manipulation ability OK-Robot shows with a simple 1-DOF gripper and parallel-axis arm to pic

OK-Robot is super impressive, but there is a huge difference in the manipulation ability OK-Robot shows with a simple 1-DOF gripper and parallel-axis arm to pick up objects and place them largely on flat surfaces, and the human-analog arms and fingers of Figure 01 picking up a plate in both hands and placing it in the right slot in a drying rack, or dropping the apple into a person's moving hand. It would be absolutely amazing if they really are at that level of manipulation in general, and it would put them vastly beyond what anyone has been able to do date. However robotics demos have a great history of being a mix of slight of hand (partial/full tele-op), heavily cherry picked, or tuned to a extremely specific example. Because it's such a leap being implied by this video, it's reasonable to want significantly more evidence before believing they can do this type of interaction and manipulation in a general way. But even if it is heavily leaning say on imitation learning for this exact scenario, there are tons of potential applications for this level of capability.