Autor: Ronny

Mark Rober hat einen Roboter gebaut, der Puzzles löst, und ihn gegen Tammy McLeod antreten lassen, einer der schnellsten menschlichen Puzzlelöserinnen der Welt. Der Design- und Bauprozess ist faszinierend. Insbesondere die Feinabstimmung, die es dem Roboter ermöglicht, jedes Teil an seinen Platz zu bringen. Der Roboter schafft das bis zu 200 mal schneller als ein Mensch. Jetzt nehmen die uns auch noch das Puzzlen weg!!11!!!

When we first tried to assemble the puzzle, almost none of the pieces fit together perfectly. This was before we had corrected the errors in the computer vision code as described earlier.

However even after we improved the computer vision code, some small errors remained. Many pieces would fit together perfectly, and then you would see one that was ever so slightly out of place, and that could ruin the alignment for the rest of the puzzle if left unresolved.

To solve this, we took inspiration from humans. If you try to place a puzzle piece with your hands, you’ll find that often you need to wiggle the piece around to get it to snap into place. So we programmed the robot to do the same thing.

(Direktlink, via Kottke)