[Robotgroup] watching this will make you sweat

[Robert Carter]

Didn't I see a movie once that had a cyborg doing this? Something  
starring Sigourney Weaver, with big evil monsters ... oh I know,  
Ghostbusters II.

  ;) R

On Aug 15, 2007, at 6:01 PM, Vern Graner wrote:

> There was a robot from SRL that was doing this at Maker Faire in San
> Mateo 3 months ago. I shot video of it and showed it to the group  
> at one
> of the meetings. The device sent about 3 of the folks from that  
> group to
> the medical tent with lacerations. Insanity. :P
>
> Vern
>
> Shane Geiger wrote:
>> http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/14/knife-hand-chop-bot- 
>> automatically-threatens-your-digits/
>>
>> We can't stress our "don't try this at home" attitude strongly enough
>> towards readers over this piece of robot hackery from the 5Voltcore
>> collective, called the knife.hand.chop.bot. The basic premise is  
>> this:
>> the robot plays a game of "Mumblety-Peg," a test of courage wherein a
>> blade is brought down between your fingers at an ever increasing  
>> pace.
>> Of course, we've all played a round or two of this game with friends,
>> but it's unlikely that many of us have allowed a bot to play, much  
>> less
>> do all the shot-calling. The system manages to avoid slicing  
>> fingers due
>> to signals it receives from an onboard sensor which guides the knife,
>> however, it also utilizes contact sensors underneath the user's hand,
>> which can detect moisture (aka "nervous sweat"). The sweat triggers
>> "stressful" sounds via closure of the contacts, and can have an  
>> adverse
>> effect on the accuracy of the aiming mechanism, thus increasing your
>> stress, thus causing you to sweat, thus throwing off the aim, thus...
>> well, we're just going to keep our mitts off of the thing. Check the
>> video after the break to see what all the sweating is about.
>>
>>
>>
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Robert Carter
Visual Resources Collection
School of Architecture
The University of Texas at Austin
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