Here’s further proof that eventually, robots will become our masters and we’ll just serve as food for them, or, if we’re lucky, we’ll be their pets. In this video, a series of extremely high-precision robotic hands manipulate various objects (including bouncing one of those super-bouncy balls crazy fast, and doing the twirling-a-pencil trick).
Let’s just hope our robot overlords use their mega-powerful hands to gently pet us.
For more on these robotic hands, check out the Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory. For more amazing robot videos, check out BotJunkie on YouTube.
(Via Kottke.org.)
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I am now thinking of the scene in Aliens in which Bishop plays the knife-and-hand-game.
posted by pannonica on 8-4-2009 at 3:31 pm
And when one machine can do all of those things, respond to 25+ verbal commands, and let me know someone is at the door, it will still be only 1/4 as smart or useful as my 6 month old Australian Shepard.
Interesting work, but based on the video I’m not anywhere near believing in Robot Overlords.
posted by TXCherokee on 8-4-2009 at 4:36 pm