The video at around 3.30min, where the robot arm took 3 attempts to reseat the window trim, was quite unnerving - I have not seen such resolving before. Is it new or am I way out of the loop?

You are indeed out of the loop. Google did something arguably more impressive more than a year ago, with a VLA based bot replacing a tensioned timing belt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AAFiuEP7iE

if you want to catch up, i would say Generalist is the state of the art in dexterous manipulation tasks, you can learn more here https://generalistai.com/blog/gen-1

Yes that was impressive.