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What the author meant here is software is coming for mechanical hardware, like gears and motors. I.e., with more advanced software you will be able to use cheap
by hristov 5y ago
What the author meant here is software is coming for mechanical hardware, like gears and motors. I.e., with more advanced software you will be able to use cheaper gears and motors. As far as electronic hardware, forget about it. You will need more and more of it. His vision of replacing super high precision in gears and motors with sensors and image recognition will require a lot of sensors and some pretty hefty processors for image recognition.
- hinkley 5y agoHigh precision hardware means that you can mathematically prove the correctness of motion within a very narrow margin of error. I think there what you are really trading though is precision in the mechanical components for precision - and speed - in the sensors. If I can detect the slop I can correct for it. If I can't (or don't) then success is dictated by the input, not the output. If you can't detect the slop fast enough you have to slow down to avoid slamming into something fragile or immovable. The human brain has a motor cortex, uses proprioception as the primary feedback, but touch and sight are used as sanity checks. In my experience with physical talents, you're training your proprioception as much as anything. Probably because it's faster than touch (and has fewer consequences), and cheaper than sight (you can't focus on anything else if you are watching your hands).