Amazing robot dexterity

posted Jul 30th 2009 7:09am by Caleb Kraft
filed under: robots hacks

Ishikawa Komuro Laboratories are doing some amazing stuff with robots right now. The video above starts out looking like a clumsy and somewhat failed attempt at dribbling a ping pong ball. Once it goes into slow motion however, we see the true action. This robot is dribbling that ball amazingly. Utilizing 1000 FPS cameras, it readjusts and hits the ball on every bounce. As the ball drifts out of the reach of the bot, suddenly we are struck with the lifelike motion. Personification can be a fleeting thing, appearing so strongly as the little bot tries in vain to reach for that ball, then disappearing again an instant later. If you really want to see some personification worthy of the crab fu challenge, check out their tool manipulation by a multi fingered hand video.

[via BotJunkie]

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tagged: crab fu, dexterity, high speed, personification

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Wow.
amazing.
scary.
nothing else to say.

Posted at 7:29 am on Jul 30th, 2009 by g3n

That’s impressive

Posted at 7:31 am on Jul 30th, 2009 by David

Wow, I would love to have the money to work on a project like that…

Posted at 7:47 am on Jul 30th, 2009 by Roon

I want to hug that ball-bouncing robot.

Posted at 8:04 am on Jul 30th, 2009 by PodeCoet

Very neat. I feel like there is a lot of extraneous motion in the first demo, so I’m curious what kind of system they’re using to guide the motion.

Posted at 8:21 am on Jul 30th, 2009 by Kyle McDonald

Holy crap, did anyone show this to the Geekologie Writer?

Posted at 9:04 am on Jul 30th, 2009 by blackwinged

I for one welcome our supersonic robot overlords…

Posted at 9:11 am on Jul 30th, 2009 by Khordas

Any faster and i would be worried about the strength of the ball…

Posted at 9:33 am on Jul 30th, 2009 by Zamadatix

oh, great. Now the robots are gonna kick human’s ass in a snap when they uprise…

Posted at 9:37 am on Jul 30th, 2009 by nek0

How much longer until we have Robot basketball? This would be epic

Posted at 9:48 am on Jul 30th, 2009 by Germ

impressionante

Posted at 9:48 am on Jul 30th, 2009 by gui

Wow

I wonder what kind of actuators they’re using. That kind of speed seems a bit beyond the usual actuators used in robotics. Maybe they’re using pneumatic ones?

Posted at 9:52 am on Jul 30th, 2009 by Hackius

So you pen spinners can sit the f down…

Posted at 10:20 am on Jul 30th, 2009 by strider_mt2k

Now all we need is a basketball playing robot.

Posted at 10:30 am on Jul 30th, 2009 by googfan

oh my comment was already said. damn

Posted at 10:31 am on Jul 30th, 2009 by googfan

watch out kobe, a new mvp is in town.

Posted at 10:51 am on Jul 30th, 2009 by sunjester

Someone give it one of those paddles with the rubber balls on the elastic cord. That I’d like to see.

Posted at 11:37 am on Jul 30th, 2009 by M4CGYV3R

someone give it a paddle and a human opponent on the other side of a ping pong table.

Posted at 12:01 pm on Jul 30th, 2009 by jared

Once the robots combine this with the ability to run and jump, humans will be crushed in the world of basketball. Then, everyone will be crackin’ wise about our mommas…

Posted at 12:24 pm on Jul 30th, 2009 by colecoman1982

OMG, its the begining of the end of the world.

where did they get the CPU to process all that so fast? track ball position -> move robot, in such short time…
hooo, i think i just saw a cluster

Posted at 12:58 pm on Jul 30th, 2009 by Terramoto

Wow O.O, that’s unbelievably fast. At this rate were all going to have to become cyborgs to do anything useful.

Thanks for the video find, pretty insane.

Posted at 1:16 pm on Jul 30th, 2009 by Techoidz

Don’t worry guys, Will Smith will save us.

Otherwise, assimilation wouldn’t be to bad if I got hands like that.

Posted at 2:39 pm on Jul 30th, 2009 by Rad

Remember the scene in “Aliens” where Lance Henriksen does that knife trick between Bill Paxon’s fingers?

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/aliens-aliens-knife-trick/1589189410

Posted at 2:41 pm on Jul 30th, 2009 by Chip

take that thing to vegas and find someone trying the 3 card monty. shut him down

Posted at 3:16 pm on Jul 30th, 2009 by vikki

absolutely amazing!!!! need i say more? ya. absolutely f-en amazing! need i say more? ya
im verry impressed! aw-struck actually!

Posted at 3:16 pm on Jul 30th, 2009 by cyberpunk64bit

my first thought was “great, we’re all dead.”

Posted at 3:52 pm on Jul 30th, 2009 by anonymous

I, for one, welcome our new ninja robotic overlords.

as slashdot readers would say..

Posted at 4:09 pm on Jul 30th, 2009 by otterpopjunkie

Handy!

Posted at 6:25 pm on Jul 30th, 2009 by pyrhho

WORD, SICK degrees of freedom !! Absolutely amazing, when will they be attached to a bipedal humanoid ? :D

Posted at 8:01 pm on Jul 30th, 2009 by tapius

Nobody would watch bball with robots after a week of novelty.
Also the speed is probably only possible with very light objects, foam balls, the heavier it gets the slower it gets since otherwise the strength needed would grow exponential, and then the drives/actuators would not be able to move so fast, fast yes but not adaptive and at the video’s speed I bet, albeit still faster than humans I think.
The movies take a lot of liberties with physics.

Posted at 12:49 am on Jul 31st, 2009 by Wwhat

This is one step closer to much-needed prostheses for amputees. Kinda like I, Robot. It never ceases to amaze me how there’s always someone just around the bend with something better/faster than what someone just designed.

Posted at 8:03 am on Jul 31st, 2009 by Josh

Ok, I want to see it catch an egg now…

;-D

-Adam

Posted at 11:30 am on Jul 31st, 2009 by Adam

Awesome, I can’t wait for my exoskeleton. Also, Robogames can add robot tennis…

Posted at 9:26 pm on Aug 1st, 2009 by LIz

@M4CGYV3R: OMG YES! Quickly, mail these guys a paddle+ball on elastic with a note attached. Request a video. K thx

Posted at 5:44 am on Aug 2nd, 2009 by Benny M

There is a better video (from ICRA 2009 robotics conference) over on Hizook.com — http://www.hizook.com/blog/2009/08/03/high-speed-robot-hand-demonstrates-dexterity-and-skillful-manipulation

Posted at 12:55 pm on Aug 3rd, 2009 by Travis

The robot is really amazing , i liked this video too much and i forwarded this video to my all friends.

Posted at 4:37 am on Aug 4th, 2009 by james burns

Amazing robot dexterity

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