This is true—the movements most biological beings make that we would take for granted have proved to be far more complex to get a robot to simulate than you would think. Just building a fully functional robot hand capable of all of the same movements as a human hand alone requires a considerable amount of computing power due to how complex a robot would find calculating all of the possible movements that can be made with it and to figure out how to properly coordinate with it without fumbling on the regular.
This is why, when you see demonstrations of robots in action, their movements tend to be so wooden and simplified. It was the programmers going “close enough” for whatever specific motion they wanted it to do for the occasion.
scyphi26 4 months ago
This is true—the movements most biological beings make that we would take for granted have proved to be far more complex to get a robot to simulate than you would think. Just building a fully functional robot hand capable of all of the same movements as a human hand alone requires a considerable amount of computing power due to how complex a robot would find calculating all of the possible movements that can be made with it and to figure out how to properly coordinate with it without fumbling on the regular.
This is why, when you see demonstrations of robots in action, their movements tend to be so wooden and simplified. It was the programmers going “close enough” for whatever specific motion they wanted it to do for the occasion.