In 1959 Minsky cofounded the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, where he designed and
built robotic hands that could «feel» and «see» and manipulate objects, a watershed in the field.
Engineers have been trying to
build robotic hands for years, but it turns out that this is very difficult.
Not exact matches
Remember, your own
hands are very complicated, and professional engineers are still struggling to this day to
build a fully functional
robotic hand that is equivalent to a human one.
But now two computer scientists report a tiny step toward that future with a
robotic system that designs and
builds robots with just a bit of help from a human
hand.
Although
built by Boston Dynamics, the ATLAS project is unique in that multiple
robotics teams around the nation can get their
hands on one to test the extent of their programming skills in preparation for the DARPA
Robotics Challenge, which «aims to develop semi-autonomous ground robots that can do «complex tasks in dangerous, degraded, human - engineered environments.
The microbots can morph into a
building, a bridge, and in the wrong
hands — perhaps a global
robotics mogul like Alistair Krei (Alan Tudyk)-- are an unbeatable weapon.
It wasn't
built to hustle, it doesn't like to hustle, and if you tried to push it really hard through a curvy road, and some point a
robotic hand would likely pop out of the dash and smack you on the cheek.»