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Robot Controls Person's Arm To Manipulate Objects
An anonymous reader writes "French researchers have demonstrated a robot that controls its own arm as well as a person's arm to manipulate objects in a collaborative manner, IEEE reports. Electrodes attached to the person's arm allow the robot to make the elbow and hand move to perform tasks. The tasks are currently simple (dropping a ball through a hoop, as shown in one of their videos), but the researchers say more complex ones are possible. They also say the approach has therapeutic benefits and their goal is to 'develop robotic technologies that can help people suffering from paralysis and other disabilities to regain some of their motor skills.'"
...nah, too easy.
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there is one repetitive motion that I must do with my hand once in a while that I may wish was done without my direct participation. On the other hand... what if the software fails and the hand goes all the way over my head?
What? What? I hate doing all this calligraphy training.
You can't handle the truth.
Actually, since the article is about robots controlling humans, the joke would have to be "In Soviet Russia, you control robots!"
And yes that now is a joke.
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"Query: Why are you assaulting yourself?"
"So Mr. Smith, and I remind you that you are under oath, you claim the reason you groped 'the lady in red' sitting next to you on the airplane, is that your 'ARM Controller' chip malfunctioned ?"
Electrodes attached to the person's arm allow the robot to make the elbow and hand move to perform tasks.
Pr0n opportunities for cam-girls, I think.
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In Soviet France robot controls you. In corporate America you control robot!!
Silly you!
In Soviet Russia government controls YOU!
In Corporate America corporations control GOVERNMENT
In Socialist France the people control GOVERNMENT
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This appears to require a person with an arm that works; unless I misunderstand the electrodes are stimulating a developed (i.e. non-atrophied) arm with working nervous system. I would be curious to see this trick work on a limb that was truly disabled.....
very cool none the less.
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The problem with that first design is that really just turned your muscles "on or off". No matter how slight the movement. Apparently it was extremely tiring to use even briefly.
This appears to have a subtle control that would allow a paraplegic to use a robo-leg controller all day without tiring any more than you or I.
Science is all about firing a drunk pig out of a cannon just to see what happens.
There's nothing to be nervous about, the system has a safety switch. Whenever you feel that the robot might have gone out of control, you just put your hand on the switch and press...oh, wait.
All jokes aside this is fantastic news.
Now when a robot loses an arm in an automobile accident they'll be able to replace it with a human arm.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
This is great news for any paraplegic robots.
If what I just said sounded like a troll, it was probably just a failed attempt at humor.
Someday soon we may not have any quadras and paras nor amputees which will be wonderful. But when it becomes commonplace - as silly and trivial as it sounds - competitve sports at nearly every level may become impossible as the augments become faster, stronger, and more accurate than the naturals.
Someday this research will be invaluable in restoring mobility to robots that have suffered serious damage or manufacturing defect, enabling their broken limbs to be replaced by (admittedly inferior) limbs harvested from humans.
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Then why do the French riot every other week?
To show their anger with their government. Seems to work, too. Their government often listens.
In France the government fears, or at least respects, the people.
Can't quite say that about the good ol' USA, can you?
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In France the government fears, or at least respects, the people.
Considering what happened during the French Revolution, the current Powers-That-Be has good reason to fear the French people. They stormed the Bastille once, and celebrate it every year just to remind the government that they aren't afraid to do it again.
That, and the French people weren't afraid to invent and use the guillotine.