German Aerospace Robot Plays Catch With Two Balls

HizookRobotics writes "German Aerospace Center (DLR) designed "Rollin' Justin" to fix satellites in space. But robotics work isn't all work and no play ... In the past, DLR engineers had Justin 'dancing like in Pulp Fiction.' More recently, in work to be presented at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in two weeks, DLR engineers demonstrated whole-body real-time control, allowing Justin to catch two balls at once, or prepare you a cup of coffee."

Comments

Re:Not a great idea

[Kjella]

Huh? How is this different from say a CPU and a GPU, where the CPU feeds the GPU command stream instructions. Ooh, computer slavery. Not.

That you have generic robots that interact with more specialized robots or non-robot machinery seems like a natural way of organizing stuff. Just like humans and their appliances.

Dancing with the Robots?

[l0ungeb0y]

"In the past, DLR engineers had Justin 'dancing like in Pulp Fiction.'"

The Robopocalypse will begin when they start 'dancing like in Reservoir Dogs'

Re:Yes, but...

[Locke2005]

And when it asks for help, I'm sure it will be rudely told to RTFM...