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High Speed Robot Hands Easily Outpace Humans

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Thursday, 30 of July , 2009 at 3:01 am

Those baseball playing robots we watched in action on Monday utilize 1000 FPS cameras and high speed motors to duplicate (and improve upon) what humans can do. But the system is capable of much more than just baseball… This video showcases just some of the talents of these robots, and it’s clearly way beyond what we’re capable of in both speed and precision.

[ Ishikawa Komuro Lab ]

Comments (15)

Category: Biorobotics,Research

15 Comments

Comment by TwistedSifter

Made Thursday, 30 of July , 2009 at 8:01 pm

Peter Griffin: Oh, my God. high-speed hands. We must keep this from the robots, lest they gain awareness and threaten the landed gentry.

ps. this is absolutely incredible.
pps. let’s see them do jazz hands. then i’d be really impressed.

Comment by Travis

Made Monday, 3 of August , 2009 at 2:55 pm

There is a better video (from ICRA 2009 robotics conference) over on Hizook.com — http://www.hizook.com/blog/2009/08/03/high-speed-robot-hand-demonstrates-dexterity-and-skillful-manipulation

Comment by Mizuo

Made Wednesday, 5 of August , 2009 at 2:04 am

This video makes it to YouTube, where my cousin sees it, who emails the link to me because she knows I work in a robotics lab. The funny thing is, she didn’t know that we have this very same system. There must have been a media demo that sparked the recent coverage, but these hands have been around a while. (Namiki, IROS’03)
Prof. Namiki is now at Chiba University and I think his group is going to have the robot play air hockey next. Watch for updates on his website.

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Made Wednesday, 25 of November , 2009 at 12:57 pm

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Comment by Jane K Elvisky

Made Thursday, 3 of March , 2011 at 9:37 am

OMG, this is absolutely amazing, when you imagine what the robots will be capable of doing in 10 years, the speed of technological advancement is amazing.

I fear that theyy might rule our planet one day.

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Comment by Hot Christmas Toys 2011

Made Tuesday, 11 of October , 2011 at 9:44 pm

Always knew that robots would outpace humans! :P But can they love?

Comment by nursing schools in southern california

Made Tuesday, 25 of October , 2011 at 9:21 pm

Robots like these are amazing. I wish i had one to help me clean my house lol

Comment by lemonade raisin

Made Friday, 28 of October , 2011 at 5:42 pm

You need to get a spam checker or something, these comments are a little fishy!

Awesome video though. ALSO, is the first poster, twistedsifter, the same as the website? if so, you are a cool person

Comment by cooking classes

Made Monday, 31 of October , 2011 at 9:49 pm

Really cool video.

And this shows that robots soon dominate in this world.

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Made Tuesday, 22 of November , 2011 at 1:28 am

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Made Friday, 25 of November , 2011 at 2:33 am

Awesome video, I’ve always been a fan of robots like these. Thanks for sharing.

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