DLR Engineer Hits Robot Like a Girl, Robot Takes it Like a Man

As we reported in the past, DLR is the proud creator of Justin a very advanced humanoid robot. Lately they have been working in a very robust robotic arm and hand system. The videos below show how they punish their robots with hammers and baseball bats in order to demonstrate how well they endure the impact while retaining accuracy and calibration. Also notice how the hand can perform very similarly to its human analogue and uses flexible "tendons" to convey the motion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JT9rD5VGvQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqmRKqFqiok

These robotic limbs (especially the hand) look incredibly similar to something Skynet would design. One thing is for sure, the guy with the bat will probably loose his smile once the robot learns how to take the bat from him and retaliate.

Via IEEE Spectrum and Hack a Day.