Re:Open Problems in Robotics
by Animats on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @02:20PM
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Two robotic hands that can work in co-ordination just as human hands do.
Rethink Robotics, a Rod Brooks startup, tried that, with "Baxter". Company went bust.
There's good, simple commercial hardware for high-volume vegetable chopping and dishwashing, and it can be found in most large commercial kitchens.
There's a huge amount of special purpose machinery in the world. Most of it is pretty dumb. Newer machinery tends to have more sensors and a bit of self-adjustment. Vision systems have become parts of much industrial machinery - they're cheap now. Mostly they're looking for things aligning or looking like a known good object.
Rethink Robotics, a Rod Brooks startup, tried that, with "Baxter". Company went bust.
There's good, simple commercial hardware for high-volume vegetable chopping and dishwashing, and it can be found in most large commercial kitchens.
There's a huge amount of special purpose machinery in the world. Most of it is pretty dumb. Newer machinery tends to have more sensors and a bit of self-adjustment. Vision systems have become parts of much industrial machinery - they're cheap now. Mostly they're looking for things aligning or looking like a known good object.