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Re:Ask HN: Desktop Robotic Arm? by ianai on Saturday July 10, 2021 @10:43PM (#27798105)
So I’m very far out of my depth here. But it seems like we humans learn how to use our limbs through something like trial and error. Ie in other areas, babies vocalize a lot of odd sounds that vaguely, eventually sound like words. It “looks like” what random variation on inputs and weighting based on outputs might “look like” third person. Is that way far off the realm of possible with motors/etc?
Re:Ask HN: Desktop Robotic Arm? by omneity on Sunday July 11, 2021 @05:31AM (#27799535)
It’s a very interesting thought. I personally am not a robotics expert, but it seems to me there are two obstacles: loading the arm with enough sensors and encoders to detect outside feedback reliably, and the speed of learning iteration (limited in the real world by physical laws etc).

Maybe look into this? https://github.com/cyberbotics/webots