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World's Fastest Robot Versus the Wiimote

Posted by timothy on from the skynet-will-remember-your-taunting dept.

kkleiner writes "Adept's Quattro, a placement and sorting arm, took the title of fastest robot last year, but it was only recently during National Robotics Week that it met its most gruesome opponents: nerds with Wiimotes. Visitors tried to keep the Quattro from placing and sorting on a small mechanized platform by moving it using the Nintendo video controller. The bottom line is that when it comes to simplified and repetitive tasks there's really no beating robotic prowess."

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  1. Quattro? by Kraftwerk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades

  2. So wait by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 3, Funny

    You took a robot, capable of crunching numbers at speeds in excess of a thousand calculations per second, programmed it and engineered it to perform a specific task, and then wanted to see if humans, who take 1/5th of a second just to react, can't do any more than a few SIMPLE calculations in a second, and had them use the worlds laggiest controller, and wanted to see who would win?

    Is this like, one of those Hypothesises that's bound to be true by the laws of physics, but you gotta test it anyways?

    1. Re:So wait by nEoN+nOoDlE · · Score: 2, Funny

      Brain the size of a planet and they have em doing simple sorting.

      --
      Don't trust a bull's horn, a doberman's tooth, a runaway horse or me.
  3. reminds me of Aliens by TravTrav · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bishop, do the knife thing again...