Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Lightning Fast Robot Hand

Robotic construction?...maybe.  Really cool?...definitely!

Tweeted by my friend Ajmal over at core.form-ula, this is an amazing look at the progress in robotics at the Ishikawa Komuro Lab in Tokyo.  Watch as a robot hand can throw or dribble a ball, toss a cell phone in the air and catch it with precision and tie knots in a rope.



High-Speed Robot Hand


2 comments:

Phil Read said...

How to move construction materials around the site? Throw and catch them!!

DaveP said...

Somebody made a Johnny-5 Revit model a while ago. It's at Revit city here:
http://www.revitcity.com/downloads.php?action=viewmf04&mf04_l2_id=137
(or search for "robot")
Had to chuckle - they categorized it as "CSI 28 Electronic Monitoring and Control"