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On the problem of grasping, can you please comment on this video [1]? Instead of making a robot "hand", they have filled a balloon with ground coffee beans. "Gr
by emilga 13y ago
On the problem of grasping, can you please comment on this video [1]? Instead of making a robot "hand", they have filled a balloon with ground coffee beans. "Grasping" and "ungrasping" then simply becomes sucking air out of, and pushing air into the balloon.
Is there some downside to this that I'm not seeing?
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKOI_lVDPpw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKOI_lVDPpw
- VLM 13y ago"Is there some downside to this that I'm not seeing?" Most real world engineering problems boil down to long term reliability. Its just assumed you'll get your statics and dynamics correct and all that basic stuff, the actual brain power burned on the job is designing stuff that actually works 1M times and tolerates every component being 5% off the exact value or whatever. I think this would be a huge headache in the very long term reliability category.
- emilga 13y agoThanks. I did not know this.
- waps 13y agoWhat you see in that movie, the uncooked egg pickup, is becoming somewhat of a litmus test. Trying to reliably instruct a robot to put some 20 eggs from one basket into another without breaking any, and without prior knowledge of the position of the eggs and so on, that'll mean a lot.