Robot See, Robot Do
Friday, 22. May 2009, 17:30:56
You don’t need to go through years of school and computer science classes to learn how to program robots. With the new Hawk robot from Dr. Robot, programming is as easy as playing with an action figure. The Hawk has two long arms with a full range of motion that looks something like an orange robot butler. Like some bizarre puppetry act, you can program the large robot by moving the limbs on a smaller Hawk bot (I call him Mini-Jeeves). The larger Hawk robot mimics and records the actions for playback later.It’s the simplest robot programming technique I’ve seen.
The real life Dr. Robot, Dr. Haipeng Xie, has been providing us with a constant stream of interesting and practical robots from his Ontario based company. Hawk, though, is the first I know of where the interface itself is rather revolutionary. By translating movement into programming, he’s managed to take robotics in a very user-friendly direction.
Source:http://singularityhub.com/2009/05/22/robot-see-robot-do/
The real life Dr. Robot, Dr. Haipeng Xie, has been providing us with a constant stream of interesting and practical robots from his Ontario based company. Hawk, though, is the first I know of where the interface itself is rather revolutionary. By translating movement into programming, he’s managed to take robotics in a very user-friendly direction.
Source:http://singularityhub.com/2009/05/22/robot-see-robot-do/
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