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Robot hand ties knots, dribbles a ball, and uses tweezers (video)
- jsomers 17y agoWow. One way I could imagine this technology being applied is in a glove that white people could take to Chinese restaurants for operating chopsticks.
- extension 17y agoForget the chopsticks. They could just sit there while this thing stuffed food in their mouth and the next day, it could wipe their ass for them. Ah, what an age to be alive.
- vinutheraj 17y agoThrowing the cell-phone to regrasp it is kinda cool !
- lsb 17y agoRight now we use cheap Asian manual labor for assembling clothing and electronics. This hand looks pretty accurate, anyone able to estimate how much current manual labor is replaceable?
- noonespecial 17y agoWith that level of speed and dexterity, I think its more likely that certain physical tasks will be outsourced like programming or call center jobs are now. The computer vision and semi-autonomy would compensate for the network lag and allow workers to guide the tasks without performing every minute adjustment and requiring haptic feedback. Think assembled in the USA by workers in Bangladesh.
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- antipaganda 17y agoHoly mother of #$%#. This is one of those "Skynet" (or, to be less alarmist, "Data") moments I've been seeing with increasing frequency over the last few years. The first was Big Dog. This level of dexterity is just incredible. But the speed and precision is what really brings home how incredibly superior robots will be in physical activities soon.
- volida 17y agoonly 55 points?! this is the best thing I've seen in 2009!