How To Tell Time With A Robot Arm

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Monday, 24 of September , 2007 at 2:20 am

By Evan Ackerman

If you’re looking for a spectacularly expensive and versatile desk clock, check out this video of what the Robotics Education Lab at Carnegie Mellon managed to put together with a Denso 6DOF (6 degrees of freedom) programmable robotic arm:

Every set of pegs or blocks tells the current time, and the robot arm manipulates the objects to continuously update the clock. Sometimes it’s tricky to tell how each clock actually functions (sounds familiar), but the last one is probably the clearest (and probably my favorite in terms of operation, too).

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