Jenga Playing Robot
Highly Advanced, New Kind of Robot
MIT Robot Has Interactive Perception & Sophisticated Manipulation to Play Jenga
MIT engineers are on a robotic roll. They've created a robot that combines vision and touch to remove Jenga blocks without toppling the tower of the game. This is being called a new kind of robot using interactive perception and sophisticated manipulation that experts are calling remarkable robotics.
Robot Well Equipped
The robot has a gripper that is soft pronged. It also is equipped with an external camera and a force-sensing wrist cuff - all of which enables it to play "a mean game of Jenga." In Jenga, players take turns at taking out a block from a tower of 54 blocks and then place the block on top, making it more unstable. Whoever causes it to topple loses.
Remarkable Robotics' Machine Learning
The robot uses machine learning to select the perfect block to take out. It uses feedback from the camera and cuffs to compare measurements to move the block out perfectly. This is viewed as remarkable robotics because to play the game the robot requires a complex understanding of forces of physics like spatial arrangement, push and pull. There are many applications of this new technology including smart phone assembly lines. For more news stories on innovation, go to amazon.com/author/ekane
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MIT engineers are on a robotic roll. They've created a robot that combines vision and touch to remove Jenga blocks without toppling the tower of the game. This is being called a new kind of robot using interactive perception and sophisticated manipulation that experts are calling remarkable robotics.
Robot Well Equipped
The robot has a gripper that is soft pronged. It also is equipped with an external camera and a force-sensing wrist cuff - all of which enables it to play "a mean game of Jenga." In Jenga, players take turns at taking out a block from a tower of 54 blocks and then place the block on top, making it more unstable. Whoever causes it to topple loses.
Remarkable Robotics' Machine Learning
The robot uses machine learning to select the perfect block to take out. It uses feedback from the camera and cuffs to compare measurements to move the block out perfectly. This is viewed as remarkable robotics because to play the game the robot requires a complex understanding of forces of physics like spatial arrangement, push and pull. There are many applications of this new technology including smart phone assembly lines. For more news stories on innovation, go to amazon.com/author/ekane
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