[Ipg-smz] This robot is freaking amazing.

[Tom Henderson]

We tested numerous tape caches that used robotics. They worked pretty well.

I can't tell exactly how much autonomous logic this one is using, but 
it's impressive. There's nothing like watching a spaniel fetch a 
newspaper and deliver it, however.

Tom


On 10/12/2018 12:28 PM, Stephen Satchell wrote:
> On 10/12/2018 05:55 AM, Sally Wiener Grotta wrote:
>> It's body/space perception and coordination is remarkable. Just
>> yesterday, I was having lunch with three well established science
>> fiction writers who were claiming that it would be a long time before
>> robots would be able to take specific products off shelves in
>> warehouses. I told them the technology already exists. The Parkour Atlas
>> has elements that would be useful for those kind of tasks.
> There are specialized robots all over the place that perform this sort
> of operation.  For example, inn some TV stations, robots will pick,
> insert, and put back videotape cassettes.  Ditto large data storage systems.
>
> Perhaps the science fiction writers were thinking about robots replacing
> human pickers without modifying the warehouse in any way.
>

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