Two MIT students, Jennifer Barry and Annie Holladay, have developed fresh algorithms that could help robot arms improvise.
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Campaign groups such as the International Committee for Robot Arms Control have been formed in opposition to the growing use of drones.
The robot includes everything a serious robot aficionado has got to have, including a full suite of sensors, capable robot arms, and plenty of on-board computing power.
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Researchers at the Technical University of Darmstadt disagree and have developed algorithms proving that robot arms just need practice, practice, practice to learn complex activities.
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That might not seem like much, but considering most rigid robot arms can only lift a fraction of their own weight, it represents a sizable gain in strength-to-weight ratio.
Because the robot lacks arms, she hops on Skype and asks colleagues to deliver the drink.
They also plan on building the capability to have two arms on a single robot.
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An operator even miles away in front of the PrimeSense sensor could move his body and his arms naturally, while the robot reproduced exactly the same movements.
Printed in sheets and fitted onto the robot's arms and chest, the sensors enable high-precision tactile guidance and allow RIBA-II to quickly detect a person's weight from touch alone, guaranteeing patient safety.
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At each segment, the robot extends four mechanical arms equipped with a rotating cleaning brush at the end.
"Any mechanical motion, such as the movement of arms or the fingers of a robot, could be translated to control signals, " said Zhong Lin Wang, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
As the music plays the robot will grow a head, arms, and legs and start dancing.
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