{"id":18705,"date":"2015-10-24T06:47:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T13:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/smart-robot-arm-can-follow-your-lead-without-coding"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:29:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:29:11","slug":"smart-robot-arm-can-follow-your-lead-without-coding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/smart-robot-arm-can-follow-your-lead-without-coding","title":{"rendered":"Smart robot arm can follow your lead without coding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VGpHEU82JuM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You might not be able to control the 7Bot robotic arm with your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/12\/17\/darpa-mind-control-robot-arm\/\">mind<\/a> or your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/05\/15\/student-wink-controlled-robot-arm\/\">eyes<\/a>, but at least it\u2019ll only cost you around $350 \u2014 cheaper than an iPhone, its creators point out \u2014 to get one. Even better, you don\u2019t need to know how to code to program it: just physically guide the arm or use a gesture control device like a Kinect or a Leap motion sensor to make it mimic your movements. In the video below the fold and on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1128055363\/7bot-a-powerful-desktop-robot-arm-for-future-inven\/\">Kickstarter page<\/a>, you can see it doing calligraphy after a team member\u2019s grandfather physically taught it how. The team also managed make it paint cherry blossoms and do basic mathematics, and we\u2019ll bet you can teach it other productive things, like how to terrorize your cat.<\/p>\n<p>If you prefer the more hands-off approach, you can remotely control it using its 3D visualization app on a computer. And, in case you\u2019re more tech-savvy than the average user, you can program it using the C and C++ open source APIs the 7Bot team provides. In addition to the basic model, the team also offers packages with more features, such as a version with two arms and one that comes with a 3D printer, though they\u2019re also understandably more expensive. According to its campaign page, rewards should start shipping out as soon as January 2016, but as always, it\u2019s best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/06\/22\/cst-01-watch-project-goes-bust\/\">not to treat<\/a> Kickstarter and other crowdfunding websites as a store.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/10\/23\/smart-robot-arm-kickstarter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might not be able to control the 7Bot robotic arm with your mind or your eyes, but at least it\u2019ll only cost you around $350 \u2014 cheaper than an iPhone, its creators point out \u2014 to get one. Even better, you don\u2019t need to know how to code to program it: just physically guide [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1523,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63870,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18705\/revisions\/63870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}