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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.
My rights don't need management.
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?
Get paid to search..It's geniune and
When it can fold this , I'll be impressed!
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?
A legparnasom tele van angolnaval.
Does it make origami boulders?
http://www.origamiboulder.com/
1. Print -> Fold -> Lick -> Stamp
2. Goto 1.
A small step for robotics, a giant leap for Snail-mail spamming :)
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.
Excellent!.. I can use it to see the hidden joke on the back page of Mad magazine!
..........FULL STOP.
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.
Liberals call everyone Nazis yet they are the closest thing to it.
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.
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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.
badness 10000
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?
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
That robot better be able to fold unicorns.
It's too bad she won't live, but then again, who does?
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?
"He's lost in a 'floyd hole"
Knot tieing robots!
think of the possibilities
i never have to tie nots in balloons again
True, but if we all try really hard, maybe we can do it. C'mon everybody! Click! Reload! Click! Reload! Faster!
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
There was a massive DDoS against CMU at one point that did slow down the univ. connection a bit.
The thing is that not only are the pipes quite fast, CERT is based at CMU -- and those are the folks doing some of the main research on identifying and avoiding DDoSes.
May we never see th