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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. reminds me of Aliens by TravTrav · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bishop, do the knife thing again...

  3. Re:really impressive by pz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wonder if one of the implicit advantages of a highly flexible, programmable robotic system like this, rather than special-purpose hardware, is manufacturing flexibility.

    I know that chocolate manufacturers need to retool their lines quite frequenty (Valentine's Day, Easter, etc.), and imagine that's true for lots of industries. Many of the examples from the second video are food handling: a processing plant that handles frozen burgers one week might be making chicken nuggets or fish sticks the next.

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