The architecture of the Festo Bionic Handling Assistant still does not realize advanced robotic manipulation capabilities in my opinion, because its innovation score at the design level is much higher than its operational performance.
A nice design with an articulated arm does not equal a success rate of 98% in handling unprogrammed objects, which is the threshold minimum in my view to speak of progress.
If we assign a score of 4 for the architecture's innovation, but only 3 for its proven capability, that gives us a 25% gap between promise and reality.
At the factory, if a new robot failed to grasp 98 objects out of 100 without manual adjustment, it would be sent back, regardless of its theoretical flexibility.