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High-Speed Robot Hand Shows Dexterity and Speed
An anonymous reader tips a blog posting that begins "A few blogs are passing around videos of the Ishikawa Komuro Lab's high-speed robot hand performing impressive acts of dexterity and skillful manipulation. However, the video being passed around is slight on details. Meanwhile, their video presentation at ICRA 2009 (which took place in May in Kobe, Japan) has an informative narration and demonstrates additional capabilities. ... [It] shows the manipulator dribbling a ping-pong ball, spinning a pen, throwing a ball, tying knots, grasping a grain of rice with tweezers, and tossing / re-grasping a cellphone!"
Welcome our new robot overlords.
Seeing just how blazingly fast that thing was makes me know that we have absolutely no chance against Skynet.
... and with the pressure sensors, it probably won't break your hand.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
That's just so WRONG.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
For the last decade, I've been eking by on the "well, can a robot tie it's own tie?" Hey, at least there's still "sleeping one's way to the top". And once robots learn to do that... is anyone REALLY going to want to leave their house for a stupid JOB anyway?
"And inthis sequence this video you can see the robot hand strangling dr. Kamakuro.
Notice how the pressure sensonrs allows it to know when to release to leave the doctor unconscious but alive.
Observe the marvelous precision displayed as it cuts the doctor's hand and peels its skin to make itself a costume.
Ohh, it's trying to sew itself to the doctor's stump; ain't it the cutest thing?"
This robot only achieves a "high three", but I am sure that with some competition, we will be seeing 100-fingered robots really soon!
Unfortunetly this robot hand only has three fingers so a "high five" might be a bit difficult ;)
"linux is just DOS with a UNIX like syntax" -- Galactic Dominator (944134)
Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Hundred Fingers
No, Mr AC, when the robot is ready, it won't need to dodge bullets.
It could just catch them :)
It won't need to run linux.
It will type it from scratch!
With great speed and dexterity!
This is very nice work. The most interesting result is that some manipulation problems become easier if done fast. In the short term, inertia makes the motions of objects very predictable. With millisecond reaction times, that can be exploited.
Yeah, that long term inertia is a real PITA.
By impressive you mean 'terrifying', and by useful you mean 'terrifying'
Lets look at the capabilities demonstrated here:
1. Ability to move faster than a human
2. Ability to throw things accurately at a human
3. Ability to tie up a human
4. Ability to perform delicate procedures on a human
Yet our basic anti-robot technologies appear stagnant. Why is there so much more research on developing robots than there is on smashing those metal mothers into junk?
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
Testers wanted.
I don't know why this is news, they've had extremely fast, highly dexterous guitar playing robots since the 1980s in the form of Yngwie Malmsteen and Micheal Angelo Batio.
Capabilities not demonstrated here:
n. Ability to not have your coordinate system remain stationary.
"Dave, would you please step approximately three feet to the left, so that I may dissect you?"
"No thanks, Hal."
So, yes, this is a great robot for strangling those pesky paraplegics.
If it wants two more fingers it will just tear off two of yours.
They should teach that thing KungFu and have Jackie Chan fight it. I just want to see how fast it can rip out a human heart.