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‘Robotic Skins’ turn everyday objects into robots
- Grue3 8y agoI can't be the only one who wanted that toy horse to actually walk. It was underwhelming when it barely moved.
- anfractuosity 8y agoYeah I was disappointed with the movement of the horse too :( I've not read the paper yet, but I wonder if the limited movement of the horse is due to the actuators themselves not being able to deform the horse's legs enough? I just found this 'micro actuator' which looks pretty awesome - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHGLYRUKWeM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHGLYRUKWeM Also http://www-robot.mes.titech.ac.jp/research/pamsoftrobo.html http://www-robot.mes.titech.ac.jp/research/pamsoftrobo.html looks very impressive
- anonymfus 8y ago>a shirt-like wearable device designed to correct poor posture >So just like you would wrap a robotic skin around an object, you can also wrap it around yourself. One of the demos that we've created is showing the robotic skin on an upper body garment using the sensors in the scan to track posture, and then pulsing actuators when you pass a certain posture threshold, to communicate with the wearer that they should sit back up. "Living tissue inside a metal endoskeleton" quoting that animated Doctor Who and Terminator crossover called "The ExTerminator".
- bitwize 8y agoI was thinking Iron Man suit myself.
- anonymfus 8y agoWell in a few origin stories Cybermen were actually created as prosthetics first and that was my first association but then I thought that I would rather tvtrope HN audience into watching a dalek train part of youtube.
- jacobush 8y agoinside endoskeleton?
- ghkbrew 8y agoSo... bone marrow
- dredmorbius 8y agoLikely ought be exoskeleton
- jaclaz 8y agoendo? Maybe exo.
- anonymfus 8y ago"I just realized how weird that is" quoting the same video.
- transfire 8y agoSex doll applications?
- apsdsm 8y agoAll I saw was robotic dildos.
- leowoo91 8y agoGreat, now all the waste can turn into a giant spider.
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- vorpalhex 8y agoThis is ripe for a horror game (and maybe even partially inspired by one - Five Nights at Freddy's). Just imagine an oozing slime that turns ordinary crap into creepy robots intent on eating you.
- Raphmedia 8y agoSomewhat similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo "Grey goo (also spelled gray goo) is a hypothetical end-of-the-world scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating robots consume all biomass on Earth while building more of themselves,[1][2] a scenario that has been called ecophagy ("eating the environment", more literally "eating the habitation").[3] The original idea assumed machines were designed to have this capability, while popularizations have assumed that machines might somehow gain this capability by accident."
- robotrout 8y agoThere is some of this in the "Bobiverse" trilogy which I very highly recommend. Funny and Smart.
- maxsilver 8y ago> This is ripe for a horror game. (snip) Just imagine an oozing slime that turns ordinary crap into creepy robots intent on eating you. (minor spoilers) That's pretty close to what https://somagame.com/gallery.html https://somagame.com/gallery.html is about
- gmueckl 8y agoI cannot access the paper proper. What is tha actual actuator made out of?
- Confiks 8y agoThe current address of SciHub is https://sci-hub.tw/ https://sci-hub.tw/, and the DOI of the paper is 10.1126/scirobotics.aat1853. As for the actuators: "One of the implementations used pneumatic actuators integrated into an elastomer substrate, whereas the other used coiled shape memory alloy (SMA) actuators integrated onto a fabric substrate."
- kough 8y agoWhy not just link tfa? https://sci-hub.tw/10.1126/scirobotics.aat1853 https://sci-hub.tw/10.1126/scirobotics.aat1853
- MrZongle2 8y agoThat is crazy, amazing, and wonderful.
- mxuribe 8y agoThis is much cooler than the exo-skeletons/exo-suits that i imagined after having watched those Alien movies from the 80s/90s!
- s512783 8y agoI'm really struggling to see how this could be useful in space exploration. They claim that the benefit is that it's reconfigurable, so you can send less stuff to orbit. What they do not talk about is power density - pneumatic actuators do really bad here. Those devices + power packs would have to be huge, way larger than purpose-built electric systems, which would probably destroy the gains from reconfigurability. But that's based on the youtube video, which is typical marketing-speak. The paper is much more toned down. It's a cool idea, but I don't like when people make exploratory research look like it's anywhere near application stage.
- baldfat 8y agoMy wife would buy that t-shirt in a hart beat. She is always concerned about her posture and I bet you there are a ton of other people like her.
- tomcooks 8y agoOnahole mod in 3..2..