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Just curious, what do you think the main bottlenecks are that cause physical slowness? The naive me asks, "Why can't you just turn up the speed/power/something?

• Animats 9y ago
  Sometimes the vision system is the bottleneck, but that's less of a problem today with abundant compute power. Sometimes it's that fast motion creates vibration in the system. Most of these systems are basically "find target, move to target". They're not continuously tracking the target and end effector as they get closer. Sometimes it's just weak mechanical design. Looking closely at those videos, you see duct tape and cable ties. They haven't done the mechanical engineering yet for a fast system. For production, they need faster, cheaper, long life, maintainable, more adaptable to different plants, and pressure-washable. That's a lot of mechanical engineering.