The idea that the demonstration of the Festo Bionic Handling Assistant holding a ball mainly depends on data augmentation seems overstated.
If we hadn't already spent time on this concept, would we really think it's the key for a robot to hold an object?
Often, the delicate grasp of a robot is more a matter of mechanical design and basic programming.
For a laboratory test, like holding a red ball, what we should have done is simply calibrate the arm, not overload the system with thousands of simulations.
For example, to handle Tunisian olives, precision comes from mechanics and direct programming, not from a database of thousands of images of olives from all angles.