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(...) I'm more optimistic. This is extremely challenging. We should really start with an assemling robot. There are experiences to gain first. Hope there are some of the mechanical gurus that help think about it. What about you guys Ferrari? Or (...) (19 years ago, 10-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) The first step is to make a decent robot hand for manipulating bricks. that's not a humanoid hand, but one that handles Lego pieces well, yet is quite simple. The hand on my Pick and Place Robot is OK for handling 2xn bricks: (URL) was (...) (19 years ago, 10-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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Googling 5 minutes, and I found this one : (URL) (19 years ago, 10-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) So the "raw materials" it's using are pre-built quarter-robot sub-assemblies and they connect together using magnets. It's not quite the impressive thing we've been thinking about. ---...--- Steve Baker ---...--- HomeEmail: (...) (19 years ago, 11-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Agreed. I was hoping for much, much more. Specificly, by this definition, I strongly doubt the claim that this is the "first ever" self-reproduction. Some of the mechanical models from a long time ago were similar in concept, but with a (...) (19 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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