you're totally right, the pick and place would be great for setting up awesome domino structures, but strangely I can't find any videos of such a thing on youtube!
I wonder - does the robot actually have as fine motor control as a human? It's placing the balls in a tray with ball-shaped holes, so a slight error in location will instantly be corrected. But if the thing has a tendency to get 0.5 mm off each time it moves, then that seems like it could easily lead to disaster with the dominoes. For just setting up a long chain of them that wouldn't matter so much, but then the robot would need to move too.
You're right about the ball-shaped holes -- they could be used to mask limited accuracy.
Modern pick-and-place machines use computer vision to check alignment precisely, so I'm thinking that movement error would not be a problem. I'd be more worried about making sure the machine's touch sensors are sensitive enough to place the dominoes without applying too much force to the structure.
We must be careful robotizing technology like that pick and place machine. Today, the machines will pick and place steel balls, tomorrow they will use them to steal our eye balls!
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brilliant!
Date: 2010-04-27 07:12 am (UTC)Re: brilliant!
Date: 2010-04-27 07:15 am (UTC)Re: brilliant!
Date: 2010-04-27 06:33 pm (UTC)Re: brilliant!
Date: 2010-04-27 06:48 pm (UTC)Modern pick-and-place machines use computer vision to check alignment precisely, so I'm thinking that movement error would not be a problem. I'd be more worried about making sure the machine's touch sensors are sensitive enough to place the dominoes without applying too much force to the structure.
...there was one man who taught us to fight...to smash those metal mother****ers into junk.
Date: 2010-04-27 09:14 am (UTC)