I think his point stands though that you'd do much, much better than these robots even if you had to use a pair of tongs to do everything.

I totally agree. (I only disagreed with the tiniest detail of his point and meant only to rebut that).

I would like to point that with pair of tongs you will still have force feedback. Even though is will be reduced in precision it will still be better than any artificial system I am aware.

When we are small we barely do any better than current gen robots.

Thing is that each of us accumulate prior data that we can use as a basis for future action, things like how much pressure is enough for grasping a raw egg without breaking it.

It turns out you can make a very accurate, robust, and cheap force sensor by embedding a standard MEMS barometer in rubber.

http://www.takktile.com/main:tech

There are other methods of figuring out how much force a hand is exerting too.