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This robotic hand has such sensitive touch that it can grasp objects as fragile as a potato chip or a raspberry without crushing them (www.futurity.org)
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Research.

The technology, called Fragile Object Grasping with Tactile Sensing (FORTE), combines advanced tactile sensing with soft robotics.

The breakthrough could improve robot performance when a light touch is needed, such as in health care and manufacturing.

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[–] 74 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Is it sensitive enough to touch my self esteem without damaging it?

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  • [–] 46 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Is it sensitive enough to touch my self

    Oh no....

    esteem without damaging it?

    Oh. I thought you were going in a whole different direction there....

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  • [–] 31 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    A robo hand job is yet another way AI is taking our jerbs

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    • [–] 28 points 7 months ago

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    [–] 22 points 7 months ago

    I tried this with my Kia Forte and destroyed my priceless Fabergé egg collection. I’m ruined!

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    [–] 19 points 7 months ago

    It is imperative that the cylinder remains unharmed.

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    [–] 37 points 7 months ago (20 children)

    Oh nice, so can I.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (19 children)

    But you cost money monthly, require insurance, taxes, food, human rights.

    Machine is a one time purchase.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (17 children)

    Machines require upkeep. Shit wears out, shit breaks down, shit needs a constant stream of lube oil, coolant by the barrel coming in every month, waste coolant shipped somewhere else all the time, shit stops working for no reason. Shit needs to run to make back any money. You'll have to hire and pay somebody with human rights and an empty stomach since you already know all there is to know about machines. If you think machines don't break go ahead and open yourself up a machine shop and see how long it lasts with a $0 maintenance budget. Speedrun turning a million dollars into a pile of rusty scrap metal.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (14 children)

    This is so wrong it's absurd. I work on machinery. Heavy equipment, I've dicked around with industrial robots and hell I even have and use a 3 axis cnc mill from 1986.

    Most of the stuff that's out there is reliable as time with very little maintenance required. Oil or grease movable joints. Top up oils, change oils every 1000hrs. It's not hard or expensive to keep up on maintenance. Pay a premium and replace gear oil with PAG type oil, and you will never have to change that oil in your life.

    Machines just work, they don't have feelings, they don't take sick days, they don't take lunches. And why they fuck are you buying equipment with out way to pay it off first. Build it, and they will come. It doesn't work all too well when everyone and their grandma has a cnc shop these days.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (13 children)

    I am a real machinist. Not gonna debate with a hobbyist.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    No, you're not. You're just wrong on the internet.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    Not clicking that link with no explanation for it being there. Your low effort reply isn't going to change my opinion. Take your contrarian attitude somewhere else.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago* (6 children)

    Ofc you won't, you're a real machinist. Duh.

    Also, good call, never know what Wikipedia links lead to. Might mean you'd learn something, shudder.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    AI generated PFP stirring up shit on the internet. Banned from reddit already? What else is new? Go burn another ten gallons of water.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Oh noo, he insulted my profile picture and said to go be elsewhere. :(

    Such brilliance of rhetoric, the mind is positively dazzled in your presence!

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    You could smash your fists onto your keyboard and reply with human words instead of having a clanker do the work for you. It's obvious with your lazy replies. you should take a look at what you've invested your attention to and reconsider what you're doing with your time. The weather outside has been good. The grass is starting to be green again.

    I have a bad case of diarrhea so I've got all day to shitpost. I sit on my throne and your clanker replies provide some entertainment while I wipe my ass and send you the words that show up on the toilet paper.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    onto your keyboard and reply with human words instead of having a clanker do the work for you. It's obvious with your lazy replies

    Gee, thanks buddy. I remember like 20 years ago when people used to be super snide much in a similar way as you are now. Only it was "it's obvious you have wall hacks" because I listened a little bit better than they did. It feels just, so good.

    Who the fuck would use an AI to write forum replies? You, probably. Or someone you know. See you accuse me of being friendly with machines when you call yourself "a real machinist."

    Your dumbfounded "I'll not open your Wikipedia links without explanation"-ignorance is the reason I come to forums like these. I enjoy watching you get upset and project a ton. :)

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Hey I'm not reading all that my diarrhea cleared up and I've got better more solid shit to do now. Nor am I interested in continuing this asinine back and forth. I am glad to have wasted your chatbot tokens or 3rd world child fingers or whatever the fuck it is they run off of today. Better luck next time.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago

    "I'm not reading your comments. Or the Wikipedia links. Because reading is dumb! >:("

    I don't understand how people like you don't realise how it seems to admit to willfully being ignorant online.

    Just because you can't read more than a single sentence without looking at your phone doesn't mean we all do. Some of us enjoy reading and writing. And that "some of us" does not contain you. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    • [–] 17 points 7 months ago

    How about egg doe

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    [–] 14 points 7 months ago

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    [–] 13 points 7 months ago

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    [–] 12 points 7 months ago

    It’s strong enough to crush a boulder! But gentle enough to crush a butterfly.

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    [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    They did surgery on a grape

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    [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    I take a potato chip with my carbonfiber prosthetic hand... and I eat it!

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    [–] 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Why not just use a raspberry or a potatoe chip instead of objects as fragile as them?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    You'd have to keep switching between raspberries and potato chips and the robot would get all messy.

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    • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    How fast can it do it?

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    [–] 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Can handle the peen?

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    • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The GitHub is just a few md files?

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    • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Sweet, robots that can do more human jobs.

    they took er jerbs!

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    • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    I can do that.

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    [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I, for one, am looking forward to it not hurting so much

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    [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    One step closer to machines feeding us like in Wall E.

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    [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Cool, so can it help MAGA get a grip on reality?

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    • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    excellent

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    [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bzS6FF7gXmk

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    [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    they can be easily customized to a variety of shapes.

    I have an unusual need to cover a 4cm soft rubber cylinder.

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    [–] 0 points 7 months ago

    Robots can fold a shirt

    Yeah, kinda... not really...

    https://www.theverge.com/featured-video/860104/we-tried-to-get-humanoid-robots-to-do-the-laundry

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