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Robots with better muscles

By Rain Noe - August 28, 2007

in Object Culture

We stock prisons with weight rooms and libraries, because what our society really needs is stronger, smarter criminals. Now we're giving better muscles to robots, based on a combination of biomimetics and mechatronics. If robots are going to eventually destroy us anyway, we might as well make them look like us.

A project called "Airic's_arm" is a new robotic appendage that looks rather like the original Terminator, and has a musculoskeletal structure resembling our own. Click here--the video has to be seen to be believed, and it really drives home two points: 1) the fine motor control robots can now achieve is quite impressive, and 2) robots have terrible handwriting.

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hthth

17 years ago

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Second zippyflounder's comment, and add that the arm looks great. Love the visible wires.

@Paul
Not entirely. There's realtime sensing and computation required to control the finer dynamics of the multiple actuators ï¿½ï¿½so technically, a part of the text is the robot's handwriting.
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mango

17 years ago

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Rise of the machines....
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theblub

17 years ago

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reminds me of that "all is full of love" video from Bjork.
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PaulH

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1) the fine motor control Designers can now achieve is quite impressive.
2) Designers have terrible handwriting.
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zippyflounder

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Really we are just biological robots with a whole lot of base code and a flexiable operating system. Luddites are sooooo much fun to be around.
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