The videos demonstrating their flex-picker are impressive as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHuDvVa7mkw&feature=youtu... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg8YYuLLoM0&feature=youtu...

As impressive as the actual robots are, I'm more impressed with the "dance" they created to show these off.

Not to bash on the technical prowess required to make these robots, but that looks like an awfully wide millimeter.

its 1 millimeter between the can and the pin, not 1 millimeter between the cans

Four or five years ago I saw a similar demonstration at Sensor Expo. The robots were picking loose Starburst candies off a belt moving in one direction, and arranging them into colored words on a belt moving in the other direction. Blew my mind.

I am surprised the cans are so stationary as the tray moves...

you can see the double sided tape in the first video

Darn, I thought the movements were calculated to take gravity, momentum, and friction into account, thus keeping the cans stationary. There has to be a better or more succinct term for this phenomenon -- centrifugal or centripetal force is involved, surely.

'awesomeness'

As the Robot Devil said, "They're VERY good hands."