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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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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?
When it can fold this , I'll be impressed!
Can it fold money to find Hidden Images of 9-11?
Yeah, I guess I'm funny like that.
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
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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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?
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.