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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.
Making both objects in less than a minute.
A minute a piece, not combined.
Hat: ~55 seconds
Airplane: ~35 seconds
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Actually, it appears that this robot can only make origami that is 2-D in nature. So, the 3-D paper cranes are a bit out of its range. But still, it's cool, nonetheless.
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Check the link:
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~devin/
That is the CMU's School of Computer Science primary web servers. They have more bandwidth than the whole of slashdot, especially with school on vacation. And the servers are likely to be a server farm. It is not going down easily.
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As a CNC (Computer numerical control) programmer i can tell you that this machine is able to move that paper on it's own.If you look at the hat video you see it pick up the paper with a little vacum move it to any corinance you set it too and the rlese the vacum.they probly edited that part out to make the vedio shorter so there is no cover up or bullshit of any kind,to mee it's cool but it's not complicated at all.Here are some simple instructions on how to build a simple little cnc router
.this machine is just a little more complicated but works the same way.
http://www.fullnet.com/u/tomg/gooteecn.htm
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
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