Robotic Grippers Can Pick Up Anything
Here's a good example of the "ultimate resource": human ingenuity, innovation, know-how and creativity, which is the one resource that is truly infinite and unlimited.
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9 Comments:
An elegant solution.
This cheap low-cost solution is like the innovation of 'minute clinics!'
Now that is seriously cool!!
Most jobs consist of picking something up and putting it somewhere else.
This is another example of the beginning of peak jobs.
Now how about picking things like lettuce and tomatoes? Plenty of illegals could be replaced with that kind of technology if so.
re: simple-minded robotics. Robotics are also being used in highly precise surgery also and remote versions of it on the horizon so, in theory, a child in a village in Africa can be "operated on" via a remote surgeon.
don't ask me what happens if the comms link fails...
Outside the box thinking on state change in a bag, vacuum grip, and rapid pressure in order to toss. Tossing a ball was an extremely difficult problem, but no longer. How about some differential in surface adhesion/grip from one side to another, in order to toss a curve ball, slider, etc.
"How about some differential in surface adhesion/grip from one side to another, in order to toss a curve ball, slider, etc."
Geez, Tom, be patient! One extremely difficult thing at a time. :)
"in theory, a child in a village in Africa can be "operated on" via a remote surgeon."
If they could afford it.
And if they could afford it, they could hire a surgeon in Africa.
...but true, you did say "in theory".
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