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General Discussion / Robot pen spinning
in TV show?
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Date: Thu, Feb 26 2009 22:42:32
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk46SER1AA4...feature=related
In the 1:44 of the vid, you can see a robot hand doing pass and pass rev. Can any engineers or robot makers.gif)
make one more and do more actions? -
Date: Thu, Feb 26 2009 23:19:19
Theoretically a robot can be programed to spin INSANELY good but as all robots it will have one major flaw... I will not be able to invent anything on it's own. It will be able to do what it's told and that's it.... so... pointless imo
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Date: Fri, Feb 27 2009 00:16:53
Yea, it's possible. I think that most engineers don't have enough money or time to waste on a robot that spins pens.
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Date: Fri, Feb 27 2009 01:21:11
Yah.. thats an oldie.
You really wouldn't be able to make an awesome bot.... technology hasn't come along in a hand-eye coordination sense enough to do tricks like Thumbarounds, Baks , and sonic variations.. Which require tons of balance, tiny movements, and handeye coordination, all of which robots aren't at the level yet.
It could only perform pass moves fairly efficiently, as that is a fairly timed trick, and is only in two- dimensions. -
Date: Fri, Feb 27 2009 05:52:05
and even if you can program a robot to pen spin, you would need to reprogram it if you use another pen mod xD
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Date: Fri, Feb 27 2009 06:56:11QUOTE (Kari-Chan @ Feb 27 2009, 02:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>and even if you can program a robot to pen spin, you would need to reprogram it if you use another pen mod xD
true
but you could make it do continuous busts
and then screw it up by swapping the buster cyl that the robot is holding to a ballsign -
Date: Fri, Feb 27 2009 11:28:48
I wonder how fast can that bot do the fingerpass?
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Date: Fri, Feb 27 2009 15:39:13
Old.
It's a robot at University of Tokyo, which I'm sure is not originally just for spinning a pen, although the TV show reports that they work on a "pen spinning robot". It's true that we can see it spinning a stick, but the video is filmed when Hideaki Kondoh, a old Japanese pen spinner, visited there to show his spinning to them as a program for another TV show introducing pen spinning. -
Date: Sat, Feb 28 2009 11:38:25
Not only is building a robot capable of doing the tricks insanely hard but also programming it is even more difficult if not impossible.
You would have to measure the amount of force, movement, and pen weight exactly to perform a simple trick, and then moving it accordingly and catching it, and this is only 1 trick.
What would happen when you would want to perform a combo? You should know we perform tricks differently when they are stand alone tricks, connected to certain tricks and connected from certain tricks. The force we use is different, the position of our hand is different and so are our fingers in some situations.
So in conclusion- building a robot like this is impossible in the near future and I can't see it achievable in the near distant future, maybe a few light years ahead we might be able to do something similar
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Date: Mon, Mar 2 2009 11:04:17QUOTE (Thewave @ Feb 28 2009, 07:38 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Not only is building a robot capable of doing the tricks insanely hard but also programming it is even more difficult if not impossible.
You would have to measure the amount of force, movement, and pen weight exactly to perform a simple trick, and then moving it accordingly and catching it, and this is only 1 trick.
What would happen when you would want to perform a combo? You should know we perform tricks differently when they are stand alone tricks, connected to certain tricks and connected from certain tricks. The force we use is different, the position of our hand is different and so are our fingers in some situations.
So in conclusion- building a robot like this is impossible in the near future and I can't see it achievable in the near distant future, maybe a few light years ahead we might be able to do something similar
oh, 1 light year= ? years