MIT Unveils Robotic Manipulator Filled With Coffee Grounds 60
An anonymous reader writes "MIT researchers have developed a highly articulated robotic manipulator based on soft materials that can harden to reposition the device. The technique is known as jamming, and it relies on pouches filled with granular material like coffee grounds; when air is removed from the pouches, they become rigid. The researchers combined jamming actuators with cables to build a manipulator resembling an elephant trunk. They say the device is low-cost, capable of grasping a variety of objects, and can remain in a hardened state for extended periods of time using little energy."
women rejoice (Score:5, Funny)
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Girls will love that (Score:0, Funny)
They say the device is low-cost, capable of grasping a variety of objects, and can remain in a hardened state for extended periods of time using little energy
Pfizer patent (Score:5, Funny)
"...can remain in a hardened state for extended periods of time using little energy."
Didn't Pfizer patent this?
Japanese men rejoice (Score:5, Funny)
Japanese men rejoice. Tentacle porn is no longer limited to a drawn form.
We've secretly replaced (Score:5, Funny)
Here at MIT in one of the world's finest robotics labs we've secretly replaced the coffee grounds in these articulated manipulators with rich, sparkling Folgers crystals to see if scientists can tell the difference.
What could possibly go wrong? (Score:5, Funny)
Following the second link [ieee.org] of TFA, I saw the picture of the robot [ieee.org] and it was somehow familiar [wikipedia.org]... What could possibly go wrong [wikipedia.org]?
Re:women rejoice (Score:5, Funny)
So can anyone, it's called rigor mortis.
Re:women rejoice (Score:4, Funny)