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On the Gripping Hand

Posted by michael on from the grab-twist-and-pull dept.

eek_the_kat writes "The Sensor Fusion Project at Ishikawa Hashimoto Laboratory has developed a high speed visual feedback system called SPE-256. It allows the robot to track fast randomly moving objects and grasp them (movies here). The applications seem endless! I have seen many robot mpegs as of late, many courtesy of /., but these have to be some of the coolest I have ever come across. A must see."

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  1. Re:Is it real? by ecarlson · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > But still... that handshake looked really fishy, esp. the 90 degree rotation....

    To me it looks like the robot arm was programmed to go into handshake mode (rotate 90 degrees, and get ready to track up and down) when it sees the human hand moving up and down. It didn't look fishy at all.

    Also, according to the block diagram, there is a second video camera, but I don't know if it was used to aid 3D object location.

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