Brooks: “humanoid robots will be “plug compatible” with humans and be able to step in and do the manual things that humans do … believing that this will happen any time within decades is pure fantasy thinking”

https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dexterity/

His voice carries weight.

“Schunk, a German company, sells over 1,000 varieties of parallel jaw grippers, both electric and pneumatic (using compressed air), for robot arms.”