High-Speed Robot Hand Shows Dexterity and Speed

Posted by kdawson on Sunday August 23, 2009 @06:01PM from the think-fast dept.

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!"

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Very nice. Some things are easier when done fast. by Animats · 2009-08-23 19:18 · Score: 3, Interesting

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.
Fast machinery isn't unusual, but it's rarely that smart.