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With a Steely-Sweet Caress

Wednesday July 21, 2010 by Tim Maly

This is a pretty cool demo, and the robots are neat-looking but the part of this that’s the most interesting is the problem this is solving. Listen to how often they talk about “low self-weight” and “yielding to human operators”. The top feature of these things is that they can operate in the same area as human workers without tearing their arms off.

In other words, the top-selling feature is that they figured out how to make gentle robots.


 
  • This is really interesting – Festo keeps popping up, I guess I have to look into them further. I was just researching the Molecube project and Festo seems to be distributing a commercial version of that project. I'm starting to get the sense that these guys are like the Arup of Robotics.
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