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> Were pinch points not considered during design? It's fairly difficult to design a joint with a reasonable amount of motion without pinch points. Though, I'm
by schreiaj 6y ago
> Were pinch points not considered during design?
It's fairly difficult to design a joint with a reasonable amount of motion without pinch points. Though, I'm kinda shocked they don't have detection for current spikes on the controllers so they can limit the damage to anything that is pinched.
End of the day though, how often is the plan to cohabitate a space with humans? My understanding is it is more designed to do monitoring and inspection with maybe some light manipulation tasks. If there's a person along with it why not just have the person do the inspection?
- Animats 6y agoThe demo videos have people reasonably close to the robot.[1][2] It may be difficult to eliminate pinch points, but they need to protect them somehow in the next version. Pinch detectors, bellows, etc. Shear points, where there's a scissors action, should be eliminated. [1] https://www.facebook.com/howthingsworkgif/videos/3087576991352999/ https://www.facebook.com/howthingsworkgif/videos/30875769913... [2] https://youtu.be/VRm7oRCTkjE https://youtu.be/VRm7oRCTkjE