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Sifo
Posted on Friday, February 17, 2012 - 12:01 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)
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Prowler
Posted on Friday, February 17, 2012 - 12:59 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)
That's cute.....kinda reminds me of my old Radio Shack "Armatron" robot arm. Wonder how many tries it took to get the results shown.......
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Sifo
Posted on Friday, February 17, 2012 - 01:08 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)
Kind of neat how the gripper works...

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The robo-hand features a “universal jamming gripper,” basically a balloon filled with sand. Or, as the researchers put it, a “mass of granular material encased in an elastic membrane.” The hand can be quickly hardened by evacuating the air inside the membrane, like vacuum-packing. If the gripper is placed over a small object — a ball, a dart, a coin — the hand tightly grasps it as the air is released. By pumping air back into the hand, the robot loosens its grip and can effectively “shoot” objects a meter or so in front of it.


http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/02/cornell-robo t-shoots-hoops/
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Etennuly
Posted on Friday, February 17, 2012 - 01:31 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)
Spending millions of grant dollars on a thing like that will keep three or four unemployed idiots out of work for life. It seems to be an obamination of sorts.
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Froggy
Posted on Friday, February 17, 2012 - 03:12 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)
Or it could be used in situations where robots are already present due to the risks to human life being too great, such as hazmat handling. : )
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Baf
Posted on Friday, February 17, 2012 - 03:38 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)
And fixing coolant leaks on the moon?
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Sifo
Posted on Friday, February 17, 2012 - 05:54 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)
Is the moon leaking coolant?
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Darth_villar
Posted on Friday, February 17, 2012 - 07:18 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)
Anyone else realize... basketball will now be mechanized! Then you get to add cool things like flamethrowers and saws and such too.
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Pwnzor
Posted on Friday, February 17, 2012 - 09:17 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)
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Two_seasons
Posted on Friday, February 17, 2012 - 10:40 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)
Sifo: Cool demo. How much did that cost us?

Froggy...we don't need no stinkin hazmat robots! Everything today is considered hazmat (even the band-aids in hospital, thanks to the gov't your generation desires!

I used to work with nuclear sub reactor "hot water". Still here too

Off topic, but did you ever wonder where the HIV blood from a cadaver goes? Here in Milwaukee---Lake Michigan! Now I'd consider that to be hazmat for sure
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