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Cardboard Robot Arm on Kickstarter

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  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2012-07-19 19:37
    Cardboard is not to be sniffed at as a construction material. (Locating my socks in order to pick them up would benefit from an olfactory sensor, though.) Properly formed, cardboard is both strong and cheap. Moreover, erco, it's made from WOOD pulp! But would I invest ten grand in that guy's project? Um ... no.

    -Phil
  • LeonLeon Posts: 7,620
    edited 2012-07-20 01:18
    When I worked for Xerox Research (UK) many years ago, we used Fome-Cor board (http://www.fomecore.net/) for "soft models" of prototype copiers. It could be made quite rigid with suitable bracing, and would be suitable for some robotic applications.
  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2012-07-20 04:56
    I like it. It is quite clever how the claw passively aligns itself with the ground, much easier than computing inverse kinematics.
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