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Well no wonder they turn on us. We’re turning them into surly short order cooks. Quick, teach it to smoke a cigarette while it flips! – Ms. Fix-It
Favorite Comment: Les says,“Hal, flip the pancakes.” “I’m sorry Dave, I can’t flip your pancakes.”
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Really this is a sad kludge. They still need to teach it to mix the batter, pour it in the pan and when to do the flip. Looks like a lot of work just to get some breakfast. Time to go get the original kludged breakfast–at Denny’s.
How old is your wife? How many years did she need?
Kinda sad when you need a wife to cook you everything.
COO-2180′s distant ancestor.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/COO_cook_droid
OMG this made me laugh loads!!! Successfully learned skill after ONLY!!! 50 trials! Clap clap clap well done, R2, well done.
Poor engeneer if he has such a bad idea as teaching the robot to do other different kind of regular movement ROFL
I know many HUMANS that cannot flip a pancake like that, and they have tried and failed miserably more than 50 times.
I usually flip with a spatula, I don’t need fancy tricks for my breakfast.
Dear clueless,
The day I was born, I jumped out and ran down the corridor to grab my big brother’s bike which I used to get into my dad’s jet and fly it to a smarter place… I’m sure you walked the first time you tried too.
Now robots are a bit dumber than you and I. You can either tell them exactly what they should do, in painful mathematical details that have to be perfectly exact, and have to do it for every task they ever have to perform, or you can write software that lets them try something from a rough example and adjust based on results, left or right, try 500 times until you make it. Guess which one will give us back the C3P0s of the past? Lots of researchers are thinking the second one, and will like this video result. But they’re not as smart as you.
Nice to see you back ms fix-it!
very well said!.. but some people just don’t get it. this is only the beginning. and there’s a big brain behind that robot arm, don’t forget that.
I still feel proud of you, R2, no matter what they say. Now go get me some fries and a beer, please, and try not to drop it.
Dear super_bob_super_bob_super, you totally missed the point of my comment
Yes, I get all you said and let me tell you I’m a software engeneer, of course what they did is a great advance -and the right direction for engeneering too-, but do not deny the fun in this video, dude, I was laughing for over 15 minutes and I laugh over and over everytime I picture it… don’t get stressed, try to get some fun.
BTW, that’s quite an interesting story of you the day you were born. Why didn’t you teleport directly to the jet instead of using such an old technology as a bike???
–just joking, don’t get angry
relax
I only had AAA batteries, the teleport remote takes AAs and I couldn’t find a chewing-gum wrapper (damn you Tic-Tac!).
Sometimes it’s hard to figure out sarcasm in other people’s posts. Yours gave me no hint that you were not a 10 year old troll. No biggie.
Trolls can be any age, sir.
The sticker that seals the Tic-Tac bottle is aluminum isn’t it?
Generally one should be able to spell their own job title correctly
Dear Paul, read the comment below this one (my answer to SamAxe). Too lazy to write twice the same speech.
Mr. Bruno,
If you truly were a software “engeneer”, you would be able to spell engineer properly. Or at least be able to use the spell check function while typing your comments.
That is all.
Unless english is not your mother language, dear SamAxe… could you write or speak spanish as good as I write and speak english -or any other foreing language? Well, this completely ran out of control. This begun being fun and now is getting to be a nightmare.
And yes, I am a software engineer (thank you, now I’ll never mispell this word again).
True engIneers would know how to write the name of ther profession.
pretty awesome. Learning how to do any task is no small achievement – for the programmer or the robot. Learning algorithms in robotics are no simpler than AI algorithms.
It takes hundreds of lines just to get a 4 wheeled robot to drive straight forward – this geek deserves major credit.
We’re all doomed.
god sometimes scientists are so clueless and lack common sense. If you want pancakes so badly, you just get them off the pancake tree
Those guys that invented the technology you use to comment here where so clueless and lacked of common sense.
Why didn’t they just give you a red and a green button?
It worked with the monkeys…
What? The monkeys have buttons to collect directly from the pancake tree?
How does it work, is the red one a 2×4 with duct tape and the green one a pvc pipe with WD-40?
I want buttons too!
bob_super: you got it reversed. The red one is a pvc pipe with WD-40 and the green one a 2×4 with duct tape. I don’t have a pancake tree, but I do have a waffle iron!
I learned this in about 50 trials too
This reminds me of the robot that ‘climbs’ stairs.
That’s funny!
*sigh*
That’s not a stair climbing robot, that’s a prototype robot designed to be as mobile and communicative as a human. So what its legs were faulty here, it’s still an amazing piece of machinery…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASIMO
BTW, since this demonstration was given by Honda in Japan several years ago, the robot did not scream in pain “My ankles are broken!” – a bit of embellishment by the poster.
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I’m sort of impressed with its walking movements, if I didn’t know any better, I’d think there was a midget in there.
Well maybe they shouldn’t have made him haul that bigass backpack around, hm?
Teaches him to not look where he’s stepping. I really think that the only thing that it really proved was that that was, in fact, a robot that was climbing those stairs and wasn’t just a person in a robot costume
No try to do this with european pancakes (Crêpe). About 5 times harder than that!
sounds like their pancakes are rich in iron
Why can’t I see the video? i want to see the video! I don’t even see the video player! woinnnnnn!
Step 1: Use FireFox.
Step 2: Add NoScript as an add-on and read up on how to use it.
Step 3: Update Windows and Adobe flash-player to current (latest) version.
Step 4: Click on “f” icon to display video.
Step 5: Enjoy the lulz
Ok, so I finally see the clip and I’m thinking: How is this a kludge?
You gotta cook a metallic pancake first, then the robot flips it. It’s inefficient but it works, so I can accept it as a kludge.
Technically, the software algorithm is kludgey too. It’s scientific trial-and-error and fuzzy logic. For a robot, that’s not quite right.
Now if it can make creamy risotto with pan-seared scallops, andouille sausage, and wild mushrooms, then we have a winner!
Leave the creative dishes to humans.
50 tries? 50 TRIES? THAT’S EXCELLENT! My sons are 25 and 27 and STILL can’t get their socks into a hamper!
Be great if the robot went skynet on the guy and beat him to death with the frying pan.
Stop beeing sadist, evil clone! O.O
Yeah, now all we need is a volunteer for the tests… (or 49 volunteers, I don’t think anyone would like to repeat)
i kinda feel bad for him(it)
oh my god, they’re starting to learn!!
You’re all missing the kludge here. $5,000 robot hand, and they end up just strapping the pan to it’s forearm… with yellow duck tape.
Omg! I totally didn’t notice!
I think they are all as blind as the robot. Notice that it doesn’t seem to have the benefit of sight – for hand/eye coordination?
Actually it is more likely that it is a $5 million hand/arm, and it’s not “duck tape”, it’s “duct-tape”, so-named for it’s use in HVAC as a kludge-sealant for ventilation ducts. So let’s stop the “duck-tape” fable here, before some idiot goes and makes a cheap marketing-ploy that capitalizes on American-illiteracy…
^nothing personal, just bitter after seeing this mis-interpretation for years on end. I’m trying to keep this out of people’s vocabulary because it’s an inane subjectification of something misheard from someone else. *Duct*, not *duck*…
Understandable, because phonetically, it sounds the same…No fault on you if you haven’t used it before, but a budget of $5,000 doesn’t buy you much in robotics.
I miss my grandma’s pancakes
“Hal, flip the pancakes.”
“I’m sorry Dave, I can’t flip your pancakes.”
So far I’m not worried because I stopped eating artificial pancakes years ago. If they teach it to press hamburger patties in its armpit, the short order industry is doomed.
oh poor robot he will never get his goal of being chef -.-
WHY!!!!!!!!!!!
I can see why they didn’t wanna use real pancakes…
Do artificial arms dream of artificial pancakes?
So…this thing learns more or less? That’s kind of scary when you think about it….
I think learning Robots are just epic.
Imagine the human race is extinguished in thousands of milleniums, but there still remain robots that safe the environment.
It’s watching robots mess up at stuff like this that kinda makes me proud of the human body/brain. Not because a robot couldn’t do it, but because our body’s are so damn awesome that even we can’t figure out how they work.
The pancake flipper has a big disadvantage (unless I missed something), it doesn’t have any visual feedback to help it adjust the pan for a landing
as a person does.
It does, the 3D motion capture system. That’s what those silver balls on the corners are for.
I can’t believe it took 50 tries to teach it to flip pancakes.I still can’t do it!
Here is the full academic paper for anyone who wants to know the details of how it does this. Technically it’s very impressive!
http://programming-by-demonstration.org/papers/Kormushev-IROS2010.pdf
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I don’t care how fast the robot can learn to flip pancakes. It’ll never be as much fun to watch as my sexy wife is.
it learns :O
Ever heard of Cleverbot?
Only 50 trials to learn to flip a pancake??
It won’t be much longer before they can fire a shotgun and ride a motorcycle in search of John Connor.