DailyDirt: Robot Balancing Acts

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Wed, Mar 2nd 2011 5:00pm — Michael Ho

Watching robot demonstrations should be a segment on late night TV -- just like "Is This Anything? or "Stupid Pet Tricks." Robotics labs seem to have an endless number of tasks to train robots to do, and some of them are pretty entertaining to just watch. Here are a few cool videos that show robots doing some nifty balancing tricks (and the last one is the best one).

This video demonstrates a robot that can balance a pencil, keeping it upright, using visual sensors only. Maybe in a few more years, I'd like to see a robot circus come to my town. [url]
Keeping an inverted pendulum upright looks like a cool trick. This robot can only move back and forth, so maybe the pencil robot would win in a fight. [url]
Fast robot fingers can also twirl a pen pretty fast, using both tactile and visual sensors. Great. Now, robots can act bored faster than any human. [url]
To discover more interesting AI-related content, check out what's currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]

By the way, StumbleUpon can recommend some good Techdirt articles, too.

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trench0r (profile), 2 Mar 2011 @ 5:10pm

+1 robot circus plz
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Matt Jones (profile), 2 Mar 2011 @ 5:16pm

High speed robotics ftw
That cellphone tossing in the third video is probably the coolest thing I've ever seen.
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- Michael Ho (profile), 2 Mar 2011 @ 6:22pm
  
  Re: High speed robotics ftw
  Tying a knot in a rope ain't an easy task for three robot fingers, either....
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DeAngelo Lampkin (profile), 2 Mar 2011 @ 6:11pm

One day they're twirling pens and pencils...
And the next day they're coming back to the past to change the future. We've been warned! :)
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Anonymous Coward, 2 Mar 2011 @ 10:56pm

Sword fights count?

There is tone of videos of robots yielding swords on YouTube.
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Pixelation, 3 Mar 2011 @ 7:16am

If an AI says the line "danger Will Robinson", will the creater of the AI be sued for copyright infringement?
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