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That's a great start. Opening a drawer is pretty hard problem.
by varjag 3y ago
That's a great start. Opening a drawer is pretty hard problem.
- methodical 3y agoCorrect- as a reference for OC this is known as Moravec's Paradox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox)
- varjag 3y agoIndeed: we have machines doing novel work in organic synthesis but none yet to empty a dishwasher.
- amelius 3y agoThis already exists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAG_FBZJVJ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAG_FBZJVJ8
- pixl97 3y agoAt least to me the key point of the article >Encoded in the large, highly evolved sensory and motor portions of the human brain is a billion years of experience about the nature of the world and how to survive in it. The deliberate process we call reasoning is, I believe, the thinnest veneer of human thought, effective only because it is supported by this much older and much more powerful, though usually unconscious, sensorimotor knowledge. We are all prodigious olympians in perceptual and motor areas, so good that we make the difficult look easy. Abstract thought, though, is a new trick, perhaps less than 100 thousand years old. We have not yet mastered it. It is not all that intrinsically difficult; it just seems so when we do it.
- amelius 3y agoI'm not convinced. There's a lot of creative thinking going on in evolutionary anthropology, but the proofs are meager.
- polygamous_bat 3y agoThe other robot project posted here yesterday opened drawers at around 80% though https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38453047 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38453047 And they did it in many different homes.
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- sfink 3y agoMy robot can open drawers at near 100%, but it takes the form of a stick of dynamite. Still working on closing the drawers afterwards, though...
- coolspot 3y agoPerhaps you could automate rebuilding the drawers with some IKEA/TaskRabbit APIs.
- amelius 3y agoThey should probably optimize for minimal friction force. If you're pulling the handle not entirely in the direction of movement, you're not doing it right.