Easily digestible tech news... http://www.techdirt.com/ en-us http://www.techdirt.com/images/td-88x31.gifhttp://www.techdirt.com/ Wed, 2 Mar 2011 17:00:00 PST Michael Ho http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110125/18513612824/dailydirt-robot-balancing-acts.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110125/18513612824/dailydirt-robot-balancing-acts.shtml

This video demonstrates a robot that can balance a pencil, keeping it upright, using visual sensors only. Maybe in a few more years, I'd like to see a robot circus come to my town. [url]

Keeping an inverted pendulum upright looks like a cool trick. This robot can only move back and forth, so maybe the pencil robot would win in a fight. [url]

Fast robot fingers can also twirl a pen pretty fast, using both tactile and visual sensors. Great. Now, robots can act bored faster than any human. [url]

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