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People have been making end effectors using hobby servos for ages. These servomotors are designed for use in an RC aircraft, they're light, cheap, and expendable.

Industrial needs care not about weight, care less about cost, and care a great deal about capability, repeatability, and reliability.

This is a cool project for a hobbyist but it's not meant to be a serious industrial machine.

Edit: what is with this thread? Lots of very generic positive comments here but not much thinking about what this is actually useful for.

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johnmaguire8mo ago

I think the confusion stems from the fact that you're responding to a joke innuendo thread.

trhway8mo ago

They just haven’t watched the Big Bang Theory episode with Howard and the robotic hand:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYryogNE8Ys

stefanka8mo ago

Ooooh. For _that_ application you better have either enough elasticity or reliable force/torque sensors and a good control in place.

stronglikedan8mo ago

> Lots of very generic positive comments here but not much thinking about what this is actually useful for.

How can you say that when the person you are responding to is talking about what this is actually useful for?

ACCount368mo ago

...that's how it was in year 2020.

What you're missing is: today, we're nearing the point where actual general purpose robots become viable.

Which means: the purpose of a robot is no longer to sit at a factory line and precisely execute the same exact motions on repeat 24/7. The purpose of the next generation of robots is to learn generalized behaviors, adapt to circumstances, and carry out circumstance-specific actions with active sensor feedback. Which means completely different requirements for effectors.

Which means: repeatability can go get fucked, for one.

stefanka8mo ago

> ...that's how it was in year 2020

Humanoid robotics research was pretty popular in the early 2000s already, with remarkable, reproducible results not only in videos. It’s definitively more present in the media now.

ACCount368mo ago

The bottleneck for general purpose robots is, and always was, AI.

We've been in a continuous AI breakthrough since 2022. In 2000, this kind of thing was nonexistent.

lukan8mo ago

Without repeatability, good luck tuning your robot to do anything reliable.

ACCount368mo ago

Real world isn't "reliable". If a robot can't correct for errors, it's not going to survive out there.

pwndByDeath8mo ago

Woosh

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People have been making end effectors using hobby servos for ages. These servomotors are designed for use in an RC aircraft, they're light, cheap, and expendable.

Industrial needs care not about weight, care less about cost, and care a great deal about capability, repeatability, and reliability.

This is a cool project for a hobbyist but it's not meant to be a serious industrial machine.

Edit: what is with this thread? Lots of very generic positive comments here but not much thinking about what this is actually useful for.

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johnmaguire8mo ago

I think the confusion stems from the fact that you're responding to a joke innuendo thread.

trhway8mo ago

They just haven’t watched the Big Bang Theory episode with Howard and the robotic hand:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYryogNE8Ys

stefanka8mo ago

Ooooh. For _that_ application you better have either enough elasticity or reliable force/torque sensors and a good control in place.

stronglikedan8mo ago

> Lots of very generic positive comments here but not much thinking about what this is actually useful for.

How can you say that when the person you are responding to is talking about what this is actually useful for?

ACCount368mo ago

...that's how it was in year 2020.

What you're missing is: today, we're nearing the point where actual general purpose robots become viable.

Which means: repeatability can go get fucked, for one.

stefanka8mo ago

> ...that's how it was in year 2020

Humanoid robotics research was pretty popular in the early 2000s already, with remarkable, reproducible results not only in videos. It’s definitively more present in the media now.

ACCount368mo ago

The bottleneck for general purpose robots is, and always was, AI.

We've been in a continuous AI breakthrough since 2022. In 2000, this kind of thing was nonexistent.

lukan8mo ago

Without repeatability, good luck tuning your robot to do anything reliable.

ACCount368mo ago

Real world isn't "reliable". If a robot can't correct for errors, it's not going to survive out there.

pwndByDeath8mo ago

Woosh

0_____0OP8mo ago

oh....oh no....

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse