Posted 03.11.2011 at 2:00 pm
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So Fast It's Blurry
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If you thought Watson’s “Jeopardy” victory over mankind was painful, check this out. A manufacturing robot wipes the floor with us humans in the popular iPhone game “1to50.”
The Adept Quattro robot takes just 6.6 seconds to complete the game, which requires that you press the numbers 1 through 50 in succession. This is harder than you think, like playing a less complicated, faster version of Sudoku. Quattro now tops the leaderboards, obviously.
The robot was specifically designed for high-speed applications in packaging, manufacturing, assembly, and material handling, so it’s supposed to be a quick draw. It has four arms and advanced control algorithms that give it precise, smooth control, according to manufacturer Adept.
Watch and weep, humans.
[via IEEE]
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Nice. Adept Quattro robot must be coercing the Iphone to let him know where the numbers are.
Adept Quattro robot looks to me like those robots from the chips manufacturing lines that are placing components on a circuit board.
I bet if Adept Quattro robot would have 5 fingers would also use them in parallel and finish even faster :D.
In manufacturing many jobs have been lost to robots. A lot of them.
I think that would be fingers in series, parrallel would have it trying to push the buttons 5 at a time, instead of quick succession. without cameras to track the location of thenext number to bepush individually located in each finger tip, any camera viewing the entiresceen from above would have an obstructed view.
also, each finger would have to be movement independant from the rest, and it's camera would have to contain a wide enough angle lense to view the entire screen from very close range and then be supported by software that could distinguish which finger can recognise the next number potential with visual obstructions, cross referance the correct location of the number from 5 different wide angle views and correctly identify the numbers from the fish eye distotion of such camera lenses.. after which then move the closest finger into position and fire it, after which it would have to wait thenfor the finger to fully retract before trying to correctly identify the location, etc.of the following number and repeat it's actions.
I think 1 finger would be hard to beat.
cheers, eh
Closer to 6.7 seconds than 6.6 seconds, oh well, not like its a huge deal or anything.
that's really cool that the touchscreen registers every single touch, I wasn't aware it could read that quickly
poor unemployed George Jetson :-(