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We examined whether or not conscious knowledge about the availability of visual feedback on an upcoming trial would influence the programming of a precision grip. Twenty healthy volunteers were asked to reach out and grasp objects under two viewing conditions: full visual feedback (closed loop) or no visual feedback (open loop). The two viewing conditions were presented in blocked, randomized, and alternating trial orders. Before each block of trials, participants were explicitly informed of the nature of the upcoming order of viewing conditions. Even though participants continued to scale their grip to the size of the goal objects which varied in size and distance, they opened their hand significantly wider when visual feedback was not available during movement execution. This difference was evident before peak grip aperture was reached, continued into the grip aperture closing phase, and presumably reflects the visuomotor system's ability to build in a margin of error to compensate for the absence of visual feedback. The difference in grip aperture between closed- and open-loop trials increased as a function of distance, which suggests that the visuomotor system can make use of visual feedback given enough time, even when that feedback is not anticipated. The difference in grip aperture between closed- and open-loop trials was larger when the two visual feedback conditions were blocked than when they were either randomized or alternated. Importantly, performance did not differ between the randomized and the alternating trial blocks. In other words, despite knowledge of the availability of visual feedback on an upcoming trial in the predictable alternating block, participants behaved no differently than they did on randomized trials. Taken together, these results suggest that motor planning tends to optimize performance largely on the basis of what has happened regularly in the past and cannot take full advantage of conscious knowledge of what will happen on a future occasion.
A cleverly designed pressure valve lets soft robots respond to their environment without computer control. How that works, is what researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) explain in a recently published article in the journal Matter. The research by Bas Overvelde, associate professor at the department of Mechanical Engineering, and PhD researcher Luuk van Laake, brings robots that move and feel like living beings closer. Such designs are better suited for exploring rough and unfamiliar terrain or for medical applications.
Robots are still mainly associated with hard machines, controlled by a central computer that has to think about each step. Living beings, on the other hand, move smoothly because intelligent behavior is embedded in their bodies, which is also ideal for robots that constantly interact with people, such as in medical care. The research field of soft robotics therefore works on robots made of soft, flexible materials that respond to changes in their environment without external control.
Bas Overvelde, who besides his work at TU/e is also part of AMOLF: "We want to make robots without a central computer, that move and react to their environment thanks to built-in reflexes in the robot body." In the journal Matter, Overvelde's team presents such a soft robot that operates on air pressure (without electronics), which walks and changes rhythm by responding to the environment thanks to a cleverly designed valve.
The heart of the new soft robot is a 'hysteretic valve', as the researchers call their invention in their professional publication. Outsiders may recognize the valve as a variation on the opening of a ketchup bottle. "That ensures that you can easily dose ketchup and that the liquid doesn't leak", says Overvelde: "Yet the ketchup sometimes sputters if you hold it upside down and squeeze it hard." T read the complete article
DMG MORI is a leader in metal-cutting manufacturing equipment, producing high-quality CNC machines for over a century. Over the past 20 years, DMG MORI has been investing in future segments like Additive Manufacturing, Automation & Digitization.
The Robo2Go 2nd Gen robotic system is integral to their factory automation offering. The robotic arm is equipped with two separate grippers to load and unload parts from up to four CNC systems at a time while featuring intelligent concepts to enhance collaboration between man and machine.
In this case study, we dive into the design process that the engineers of DMG MORI followed. You will learn how they took advantage of the unique capabilities of nTopology to streamline their process and achieve optimized results.
The RobotGo 2nd Gen is already a very successful product. Yet, to improve upon their initial design on future generations of their robotic system, DMG MORI wanted to increase the precision of the machine and sa read the complete article
The technological level of upper limb prostheses has always been fairly poor so far if compared with that of other analogous systems (e.g. lower limb prostheses, assistive robots). However, there is no doubt that in the recent years the upper limb research stimulated the most exciting developments in prosthetic technology. Indeed, new terminal devices and novel articulations for the artificial arm have been recently proposed, and the control hardware, software and firmware are in continuous progress for the implementation of effective control options for the wearers as well as for an easier management of the electronic boards. Also the clinical treatment of the patients is significantly improving. This e-book illustrates significant milestones reached by the scientists in prosthetic research considering both technical issues and clinical features, and also sheds lights on new trends and future developments of this field.
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As discussions about AI has become a daily topic in our discourse, it lead us to question the trajectory of this acceleration. How do we perceive this pace of innovation, and what implications does it hold for the future? This article delves into the nuances of our expectations and intuitions regarding AI progress, challenging conventional linear thinking with the concept of exponential growth.
Whenever I try to challenge my thinking in these kinds of topics, I always imagine myself climbing a ladder. I imagine my self at the bottom of the ladder observing the small concrete details in this case the technology fueling AI. Then I mentally climb to the top of the ladder, observing the abstract topography, but at the top of the ladder I also try to peer at the horizon. This mental exercis for me, is a helpful and intuitive way to look at certain topics. But there is one aspect that I find the most challenging with this exercise and perhaps the most interesting, it's to grasp the pace of innovation.
So back to the question what are we racing towards? This has to enviably be AGI or Artificial General Intelligence, where machine intelligence vastly outperforms any human cognitive tasks, this is the view that we can se from the top of the imaginary ladder, the abstract view. That horizon can be quite intuitive, but a more interesting question that perhaps have a non intuitive answer is, when will we get there?
Imagining time as a linear progression is the intuitive state, there was a day yesterday, and there vill be one tomorrow. Our lives are filled with cause and effect relationships and our minds are tuned to think of relationships as linear.
So imagine a pond with a single Lilly pad, this Lilly pad has a special ability to grow exponentially doubling in size until it covers the entire pond. In this scenario it will take the lilly pad ten days to cover the entire pond. At what day will it cover half of the pond? If your answer is less then 9 then you're not considering the exponential factor in the growth rate.
So if we stay in this exponential mindset, how do we apply it to reaching AGI? When we will reach high-level intelligence and AGI is a topic of an ongoing debate with various reasoning and estimates. varying from 5 years to a few decades.
Creating our scenarion for our timeline plotting the progression through the different levels of performance, by setting the target for level 5, ten years from 2023, and by reading from the table below setting level 0, using Amazon Mechanical trunk released 2005 as our starting point.
So if we set level 0 at 2005, Level 1 at 2023 and Level 5 at 2033 and fit an exponential graph to to these points we get the graph above. Looking at the graph we see a slower takeoff and an increasing rate, taking four years between level 1 and 2 but less than two years between level 4 and 5.
If we plot a new linear curve setting our expectations beginning at level 0 in 2005 and plotting a straight line from 2005 to 2023 and on. If we would align our expectations to this line we would expect reaching AGI 72 years from 2023, and in this case we would be swept of our feet and our expectations shattered.
Today it feels like AI is progressing at a rapid pace, and for many these last advancements came seemingly out of nowhere, suddenly everyone is talking about AI. This could be an indicator that an exponential growth is talking off, but if we set our linear expectation to this recent rapid pace (Fig. B) we might expect AI to advance much faster over the coming decade than what would be reflected in reality, making technology advancements appear slow before catching up. What impact would this have on the investments, beliefs and adoption of the technology?
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