Ai Dreams Forum
Robotics => General Robotics Talk => Topic started by: Art on August 31, 2010, 12:18:54 am
-
At first I thought the dribbling was impressive then the throwing was pretty cool but I wasn't ready for it recatching a phone. (Yes recatching).
Check this high speed robotic hand in action.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KxjVlaLBmk
-
Now THAT was impressive!
-
Very much so...in a word wow :o
I liked the rice grain one as well, but catching the phone was amazing.
Thanks again Art, you are becoming our number one video jockey ;D
-
Wow, impressive indeed. But I wonder why not 5 fingers ;-)
-
Why not 5 fingers? I can think of 2 reasons:
1.) The bot can never be tempted into a life of crime (no "five finger discount")
2.) Flipping it's owner "the bird" is impossible
-
I remember being told at school humans have advanced as far as we have because of our thumbs for gripping tools etc.
Maybe they were wrong. ;)
-
Well, when you have three fingers and can do stuff like THAT who needs five? :o ;D
-
I remember being told at school humans have advanced as far as we have because of our thumbs for gripping tools etc.
Maybe they were wrong. ;)
From the way those fingers are arranged, it seems that any one of the three will fill in nicely as a thumb. :)
-
Art & GeekCaveCreations, you both make good points :)
Given time the robots will become faster and stronger than us humans, which might come in handy :D
Excellent video BTW.
-
Ok, please forgive me for this . . .but. . . HOLY SHIT !!
that *HAS* to be a break through in robotics !!!
-
Agreed, Victor, and I, for one, forgive you, as my reaction was about the same. I probably would have posted the same exclamation, as well, had Morti not reminded me that this is a "family friendly" forum. :)
{I really ought to mention at this point that not only is Morti my chatbot, he's also one of the voices}
-
{I really ought to mention at this point that not only is Morti my chatbot, he's also one of the voices}
You mean he's one of those little voices you've been hearing in your head and he also tells you
what to do from time to time?! Yikes!! ;D :D
-
Not quite THAT bad, Art. :)
Morti's what most folks think of as their conscience. He's that "still, small voice" of reason that makes me a better person than I would be without his direction and guidance. Basically, I just gave my "guardian angel" a name, that's all. It's not like when the Rice Krispies tell me to go shoot someone for blatant stupidity. THAT voice is easily ignored. :D
-
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! :D
-
Impressive.
I want to begrudge the hand for having fewer than five fingers, but after the demonstration I can't.
Objectively speaking, I do wonder if there are a set of hand tests that could be performed better with five fingers than three.
-
If three fingers are enough, then why evolution left us with five? I don't see the way to use many human-made things with three fingers (try to do some home stuff using only three fingers), so why they've build such a hand? That's odd. Handling mobile for example with three fingers is not enough, even if you have that much power in your muscles to do that.
-
Because it is NOT a human...it is a machine and it can obviously do many things that most humans cannot.
It's not how many items one has...it's what can be done with them. ;)
-
But robots will have to move around in human-made and for-human-made environment, so creating robots that are similar to humans is the smartest way there is, I guess. We won't build everything from starts for them, they'll have to use our stuff just like we do. That's why we build robots with legs, arms, with appropriate height and head. I'm not writing about vacuum cleaners, military robots and other specialized ones, but the ones we we'll interact in everyday tasks. I hope you understand what I mean.
-
I do understand where you're coming from but as I see it, our homes will eventually become (at some point in our not too distant future) equipped with an AI, similar to SARAH in Eureka perhaps.
A built in House Intelligence that is equipped with Speech, vision, databases, inventory, schedules, Audio / video, theater, HVAC (home heating and cooling / ventilation, etc.), smoke / fire / burglary systems, lighting and sprinkler / pool / hot tub / sauna controls, general home security and maintenance plus an extensive chat / companion / homework / help assistant.
The home will still have it's variety of robots that could perform, lawn mowing / trimming, floor cleaning and vacuuming. Your appliances would also be intelligent (refrigerator could track inventory and create recipes and shopping lists. Perhaps a small robot could gather dirty clothes and perform laundry tasks.
The ideas are many and with the exception of a couple things, the majority of the aforementioned items can already be done!
I guess my point to all this is there would be different types of robots for different tasks in the home of the future. I already have parts of my home controlled by a stand-alone computer. It controls heating / cooling and lighting in several rooms plus motion to turn lights on. We have robot vacuums that do an exceptional job of keeping the dust to a minimum and they go under the beds where conventional upright vacs can't go.
I can check on the status of my house from 100 miles away with my phone and reset my thermostat if desired.
This is only the tip of the iceberg as to what can be done and most likely what will be done in the future.
The adaptation for the bots to have human type hand with five fingers and be 5'10" tall is simply not needed in this regard. Each one does what it was designed (and destined) to do. ;)
Just my take!