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HN cites it as an example of what 1kHz vision and fast control loops enable, in threads about AI hardware and robotics.

A short demo from the Ishikawa Komuro Lab of a high-speed robot hand paired with a 1000fps vision system performing dexterous manipulation. It shows what very low-latency vision and actuation can do.

“Take a look at this video from 2009 demonstrating a 1000fps vision system and a very fast robot hand.” (HN, 2016)

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@visarga Nov 2016 Recommends
on HN thread World’s First Photonic Neural Network Unveiled
Faster neural nets are essential for robotics. Take a look at this video from 2009 demonstrating a 1000fps vision system and a very fast robot hand. Then compare to recent videos of robots being slow as a turtle. [this video]
1000fps vision system with a very fast robot hand

Citations, criticism and jokes

@SparrowOS Nov 2012 Cites it
on HN thread Ghost — rethinking WordPress
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[link] India-nigger in denial on God. What do You think of Ghandi, God? God says... weaken lost IT Cross suspense Bear If dry naked storing force journey sold vail Paulus Glad roared fatness afterwards Ostia divine recovering creation respected yield offerings cleansed emerging familiar clasp ABOUT alloy delight suggestion countenance descend remember VI Exodus deserve [link] [link] ---- God knows what you're going to think like an old couple completing each other's sentences. [link] God says... 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 7:25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. 7:26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: 7:27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it. 7:28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine: 7:29 For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes. 8:1 When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. ---- These are like ink blots or cloud animal shapes. God says... hast bends containing inflicted difficult Though ---- Saw robot video. [this video] ! God says... was glad. 8
@visarga Nov 2016 Cites it
on HN thread What the hell happened to the future?
I am watching AI papers and YouTube demonstrations of robotics and it seems they stagnate. It's frustrating to see it takes 2 minutes for a robotic hand to open a door in this day. What happened to fast vision systems? Here's a 2009 video of a high speed robotic hand and vision system. It does 1000fps: [this video] Why hasn't anyone surpassed it since 2009?
Fast robot hand and 1000fps vision from 2009
@visarga Nov 2016 Cites it
on HN thread Intel Unveils Strategy for State-Of-the-Art Artificial Intelligence
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Won't get anywhere with a dataset. You need dozens or hundreds of them, and they are usually created using Amazon Turk, so anyone with some money can create one. And they need to be commissioned by the AI researchers, because they know best what they want to study. NVIDIA needs to become more efficient and build deep learning hardware instead of graphics cards that do faster computation than CPU. If only they could create a small form AI processor for robotics that could do vision at 500+ frames per second. Take a look at this video from 7 years ago which does 1Khz vision: [this video] We need that.
Example of 1kHz vision
@visarga Nov 2016 Cites it
on HN thread FINN: A Framework for Fast, Scalable Binarized Neural Network Inference [pdf]
They report image classification speeds of 20K - 12.3 million images / second. Good! That means we might see robots that don't stumble or take 2 minutes to open a door. Here's what you can do with 1000fps vision: [this video] (and that was 7 years ago!) I'm wondering why fast vision applied to robotics hasn't been more researched in the meantime.
Shows what 1000fps vision can do
@visarga Aug 2018 Cites it
on HN thread Tesla is building its own AI chips for self-driving cars
I think latency makes a lot of difference when an autonomous system is interacting with the world. Take a look at this video from 2009 where they use a high speed vision system (1000fps!). The things it could do are probably unequaled even today. [this video] The higher the speed of the system, the less it has to predict in the future and better can adapt to unforeseen situations. It's basically using the world as a model, for free.
Low-latency high speed vision enabling adaptive behavior
@jcims Mar 2020 Cites it
on HN thread The Octo-Bouncer
High speed rock paper scissors champ - [link] Ishikawa Komuro Labs had a bunch of crazy high speed robotic vision and actuation system ~10 years ago. [this video] if you watch the slow motion there's so much backlash in the system it's hard to believe it works at all, but somehow they factor all of that in. Crazy stuff. That said, for a little side project this is very cool. The simulation idea is dope and the end result is fun to watch.
Ishikawa Komuro Lab's high speed vision and actuation

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