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How Robot Hands Are Evolving to Do What Ours Can
- ColinWright 8y agoSame story yesterday, discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17645456 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17645456
- joe_the_user 8y agoWell, The thing about adding capabilities to robot hands is it shows how far we have to go also. One could give a hand 100 different generic manipulation skills like moving cubes and rectangles but that would still result in something far, far away from the human ability to take an object and accomplish a goal with that object - say a task summarized as "take this shovel and dig a hole to put this post in." and even if a robot could accomplish a given as a sequence of primitives, such actions would be quite inefficient compared to the how a human acts, which is to formulate various arcs of force and movement specific to the task at hand. This is why Boston Dynamics robots, which clearly can walk, seem to never deployed in situations where you'd imagine a walking robot would be useful (while horses, with "horse sense" wind-up deployed reasonably often in such situations).