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Re: Dean Kamen on The Colbert Report (April 5th, 2010)
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Originally Posted by qzrrbz
OK -- time to ask the obligatory engineering question! How the heck was he *controlling* that thing??? :-)
He had a series of objects strung across his back (one would think battery and cRio :-) ), but where are the fine motor control input devices? And for a double version of this arm, wow... How is the wearer to control that?
That, to me, was the neatest part of the interview! The "how the ... is he doing this" part!
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According to a 60 minutes piece on the arm, there are sensors in the shoe for controlling it, but it is a year old so I wouldn't be surprised if they got to nerve control by now
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Maybe next season I want to develop and test a new metric for FRC scouting: Bumper Quality Rating (BQR).
BQR-5: The platonic ideal of FRC bumpers.
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BQR-0: Moderate to heavy use of duct tape.
I believe BQR would outperform OPR as a predictor of on-field robot performance. - Nate Laverdure [more] 
07-04-2010, 23:25
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