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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:Site is Slashdotted - and no comments! by jpmkm · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Uh... maybe the IP address is the address of a load balancer. With such a large volume of traffic as google I imagine actual load balancing equipment would be much better than some kind of round-robin dns system. In any case, I'm sure they know what they are doing.

  2. Re:It's dead, Jim by Bunji+X · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    What could really fix M1 is making it non-anonymous, like K5. I think it would at least remove some of the problems with stalkers.

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  3. Re:Nice Niven reference... by Pall+Agamemnides · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    In case anyone's interested, Jerry Pournelle has a blog:

    The View from Chaos Manor