{"id":25703,"date":"2016-05-13T13:16:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T20:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/a-robot-with-human-like-grace-and-precision"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:23:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:23:01","slug":"a-robot-with-human-like-grace-and-precision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/a-robot-with-human-like-grace-and-precision","title":{"rendered":"A robot with human-like grace and precision"},"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\/HY4bfnHMdtk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" class=\"\" title=\"A-Hybrid-Hydrostatic-Transmission-and-Human-Safe-Haptic-Telepresence-Robot-Image\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-robot-with-human-like-grace-and-precision.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"489\" height=\"567\"><\/p>\n<p><b><center>A hybrid hydrostatic transmission and human-safe haptic telepresence robot (credit: Disney Research)<\/center><\/b><\/p>\n<p>A human-safe lifelike telepresence robot with the delicacy and precision needed to pick up an egg without breaking it or thread a sewing needle has been developed by researchers at Disney Research, the Catholic University of America, and Carnegie Mellon University.<\/p>\n<p>The secret: a hydrostatic transmission that precisely drives robot arms, offering extreme precision with almost no friction or play.<\/p>\n<p>The hybrid transmission design also makes it possible to halve the number of bulky hydraulic lines that a fully hydraulic system would require and allows for making its robotic limbs lighter and smaller, said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mie.neu.edu\/people\/whitney-peter\" target=\"_blank\">John P. Whitney<\/a>, an assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northeastern.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Northeastern University<\/a>, who led the development of the transmission while an associate research scientist at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disneyresearch.com\" target=\"_blank\">Disney Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/a-robot-with-human-like-grace-and-precision\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/a-robot-with-human-like-grace-and-precision<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hybrid hydrostatic transmission and human-safe haptic telepresence robot (credit: Disney Research) A human-safe lifelike telepresence robot with the delicacy and precision needed to pick up an egg without breaking it or thread a sewing needle has been developed by researchers at Disney Research, the Catholic University of America, and Carnegie Mellon University. The secret: [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25703","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61813,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25703\/revisions\/61813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}