newscientist.com — The video below shows a scenario that is likely to become real as industrial robots improve: a human and a robot work together to assemble an object from its parts. But in the clip from the University of Minho, Portugal, not everything is going to plan. The human gets a stern warning from the robot that they are doing it wrong.
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finnAug 21, 2008
fake, lame, etc... staged for one thing, it looks like the whole 'scenario' was scripted...inaccurate too, the robot was by no means 'telling him off.'i hope this was intended as a 'proof of theory' cuz as it was...well, i'll put it this way: the purpose of robots in the assembly-line role (or any role) is to increase productivity and this clip does NOT show that, heck, the kid put on his side of things in the same time it took the robot to swing his arm into position. (aka, the robot was SLOW)--and on that note, if the robot is capable of doing its job MUCH faster than the human, then the human would be the productivity bottleneck, in any case, a machine and human co-working cancels out any benefit of using a high-productivity robotic assembly line. Of course robotic assembly lines do exist, but the hurman's role is just to provide maintenance for the robots, not to 'help' them.overall, NOT impressed
smp734Aug 21, 2008
I have no idea what you just said.
Closed AccountAug 21, 2008
Buried for worthless title.
rocketship47Aug 22, 2008
This is how we fix..<clang!> problem<clang!> on Rrrussian spaceship!
PaulTheBookGuyAug 24, 2008
Yeah pretty lame.
badam89Aug 26, 2008
What if the robot starts to yell at people for doing it all wrong.