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The World's First Origami Folding Robot
Roland Piquepaille writes "Devin Balkcom, a Carnegie Mellon graduate student in robotics, has built the world's first origami-folding robot as the subject of his thesis. Origami, the geometry of paper folding, looks simple when you're a kid. But it's actually quite challenging to design a robot to do it. Movements are quite complex, and paper, because it is flexible, is difficult to be manipulated by a robot. This news release says that the project uses kinematics, the study of mechanisms, to determine how folding is done and how paper can be treated as a flexible and rigid material. You'll find more details and references in this overview, including some frames extracted from videos showing the robot at work." Balkcom's website has movies, information and a couple of academic papers.
So, how much will it cost for the robot to fold me 1000 paper cranes?
Those videos are impressive. Unfortunately I'm sure that they'll be inaccessible shortly. The robot actually moves fairly quickly. Making both objects in less than a minute.
Score one for the round eyes!
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they can't patent this since prior art exists. The Bender unit far exceeds capabilities of the folding unit.
With a bit (okay...a lot) of tweaking..we can all have a robot that folds laundry from the dryer!
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Text editors like vi have done folding a while ago. This must be one of those MS Robots that tout themselves as having this new innovation...and make it appear like nobody has EVER thought of it before.
Seriously, though, the precision and delicate nature needed to fold paper makes this a great technical achievement.
To bend fold and multilate paper with surprising regularity.
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I thought the robot folded itself, like the Jetsons car.
What?
...that can filter out those bloody AOL cds and put your coffee mug on them for you?
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When it can fold this , I'll be impressed!
Will it fit in my briefcase when folded? Or does it fold into a briefcase itself? Is it trained to combat the Decepticons?
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Just in case they go down (what with the quicktime movie and all) I mirrored the news release here , the more detailed one here and Blackom's site here
Now all we need are a pusher and shover bot and we'll be set!
Can it fold money to find Hidden Images of 9-11?
Yeah, I guess I'm funny like that.
First they take over our water supply, then they develop the ability to fold thousands of paper cranes. And what better method than paper cranes to release billions of doses of LSD into our nation's reservoirs? Doesn't anyone watch movies anymore?
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Does it make origami boulders?
http://www.origamiboulder.com/
...But it's actually quite challenging to design a robot to do it...
I know there is a joke in here somewhere involving a word problem...
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1. Print -> Fold -> Lick -> Stamp
2. Goto 1.
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Much more impressive than "The World's First Poker Folding Robot" they had at Comdex last year.
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Seem to recall either a Stephen King character or Wile E. Coyote who stood too close to a similar robot...
Seeing bad movies only encourages them. Watch responsibly
It's very cool too see something like that.I work with a "Robot" like that evryday.It apears that evry movement of the machine has to be programmed in on each axis.In a way this is more advanced than the router I work on with only has 3 axis's.Do a goole search on CNC machines and you will see some interesting stuff that work like this robot.
...a smaller, more efficient model, and it'll be better built and more reliable than the American version, so we can kiss goodbye to yet another of our inventions. :-)
When I read the title I though "how could you make a robot out of origami?" :)
Excellent!.. I can use it to see the hidden joke on the back page of Mad magazine!
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Kinematics is the Study of Motion not Mechanisms. I seem to remember from Engineering school doing problems that dealt with things like the Coriolis Effect and relative motion. I found it difficult personally because up to that time we had only faced triple integrals using Cartesian coordinates and suddenly we were expected to do all sorts of stuff with radial and sperical coordinate systems.
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In the strictest rules of Origami, all folds must be done by hand. You cannot use any instrument to help you make a fold. So, there can only be psuedo-origami folding robots.
.. the Blade Runner references.
I thought this was about a robot that could be transformed/folded like an orgami. Hmmph.
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1. Build robot that folds oragmi.
2.???
3. PROFIT!!!
When I was a kid, we made things like cranes and ninja stars.
Now they've come up with a way to fold paper into robot that folds clothes? Amazing!
We have secretly replaced these Slashdot mods' sense of humor with a rusty nail. Let's see if they notice!!
What about pop-up books?
This is a nice student project, but I don't see that there's anything unprecedented here.
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A gross oversimplication of humanity . . . were simply a mechanism that doesnt understand ourself? . . . isnt this a better description of a robot than a person? . . . sounds almost Freudian . . . perhaps this fellow feels more cofortable in the company of robots than people.
Make a self-folding origami paper! Why should anyone need a robot to make an origami, when he can just buy a sheet of paper which will change to a swan or anything else?
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I remember way back in high school we had robotics that we could program to things like this. When the damned thing picks up a peice of paper, Folders it, licks it folds it licks it some more then I will be impressed!
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Hehehe, you even got modded up even though the last link was so obvious ([redirectme.net]).
http://www.biesseusa.com// rover24.htm
This company makes some nice CNC machinery for woodworking that work just like this.Anything you can draw in 3d with cad you can make on one of these.
I work on a machine almost identical to this one
http://www.biesseusa.com/biesseusa/product/biesse
and some of the details on these doors are made with a CNC machine like this
http://www.narvakitchens.com/Doors/index.html
The hat video is at this link, not the bad one on the site. http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~devin/hat.mov
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Please drop a cheap analog clock into the frame somewhere so we can get an idea of how fast it takes a robot to fold a paper airplane. :)
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That robot better be able to fold unicorns.
It's too bad she won't live, but then again, who does?
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In your face, Japan! Sure, you may go on and on about origami and robots, but some gaijin in a city you never even heard of beat you to the punch of putting them together in the real world!
Best watch out. I kinda feel like writing an interactive virtual reality edutainment tea ceremony that would put the most refined of geishas to shame.
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The author was seen beating the sh*t out of the robot. It had folded his academic papers meant for publication.
How many Folding@Home work units does it do per day?
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This robot needs to learn the basic Hollerith forbiddens:
Do not fold, nor spindle, nor mutilate.
Ahhhh... memories...
"U.S. discovers the logic behind metric paper sizes"
:)
I wonder if the robot prefers Letters or A4 format?
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Knot tieing robots!
think of the possibilities
i never have to tie nots in balloons again
I accidently ran over one while driving past the lab a few years ago. I think that should be counted the first. The rules don't say anything about UNfolding, do they?
Table-ized A.I.
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i can make up cryptic bullshit too...
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Yes, at last we have a way to fold a paper in half more than 7 times!
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OK. Now I know this from not taking notes in grade school and tearing off the sheets from all my composition books to make severely intricate designs of paper airplanes. What I do know is that this so-called "ro-bot" did not properly make an airplane! If you see the airplane video it shows that it folds the A3 (or is it legal? letter4? DIN 2A? Imperial VII?) sheet of paper only three times. This gives you a paper airplane where the "nose" is folded at a 45 degree angle, NOT the preferred (and traditional) 22.5 degree angle (achieved by a fourth fold). See the video, I'm not too good at explaining it. All I know is that THAT airplane will not fly.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
God, I read that headline too fast, and thought they had made a robot out of origami. How cool! I told myself, then I noticed it's not that cool. An origami folding robot? Bah.
I can't decide what's worse. First, you have all those poor kids in 3rd world countries that'll be out of work. Second, you have the 100+ thousand dollars that supported the development of a machine that folds party hats for squirrels.
I suppose the military could make a really big robot that folds the enemy on the front lines.
Hmm. That all sounds a bit too bitter.
Now that they've tackled that issue they can get to work on the real folding problem
Cool! Autobot or Decepticon?
Origami, the geometry of paper folding, looks simple when you're a kid. But it's actually quite challenging to design a robot to do it.
Phooey.
Seriously, though: wouldn't an origami Megatron or StarScream just ROCK?
What is the difference between a small revolutionary change and a large evolutionary change?
There was a *more impressive* origami robot built by a technician who works for Toyota in Nagoya, Japan a few years ago. It was for some kind of showcase they were having.. he built it in his spare time. Most impressive thing about it was that it created a paper crane, then unfolded it back to its orginal form - a flat sheet of paper (and continued this loop). They found that the only way they it could do this was by using washi, which is traditional hand made Japanese paper.
or does this seem like an auto generated headline? Seems like "NASA creates beowulf cluster of TiVos" and "New anime series converted to linux".
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Interesting link, BTW.
I just looked at the pictures on the page...
;-)
That robot looks AMAZINGLY like a pair of hands to me.
Guess I should watch the videos
(Go to the wesite and LOOK, expecting a pic of the robot.)
To those who are confused, this was a probably lame attempt at a joke.
We still can't handle flexible materials well. Particularly materials like cloth which have highly complex properties.
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Just imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things...
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Now, put a few rolls of al-foil, this machine, and a rocket together, then ship the whole thing up into geo-sync orbit to start folding durable space structures ... up there ...
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Well.. actually maybe not *that* much tweaking.. check out this video. I swear.. the japanese must be 20 yrs ahead of the rest of the world.
t-shirt origami
damnnn......
The world of men is at and end!
So, entertainment not edutainment.
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not accomplished by human hand alone is not art?