Humans, Robots, and Non-Prehensile Manipulation

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This is a fun video that was inspired by a presentation I saw at the 2015 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). I wanted to see if humans could duplicate the performance of a robot at ICRA that was balancing a ball on top of a rotating platform. I hope you find it entertaining and informative!

I got a huge amount of help on this video from Kristi Bradford. She did all of the cinematography and editing for this video. Not only does she do a lot of work in film but she also designs spacecraft instruments for studying icy satellites like Enceladus. Super cool! Check out her website: http://www.public.asu.edu/~kjbradfo/

Errata:
None yet that I know of! But let me know if you spot something!

Links to more information:

Maksim Surov describing the butterfly robot:    • Nonprehensile Manipulation Problem, The Bu...  
Leonid Paramonov describing the theory:    • Leonid Paramonov - ICRA 2015  

Details of the butterfly robot:
http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~labrob/re...
http://hades.mech.northwestern.edu/im...

Lots of robots falling down at DARPA robotic challenge:    • A Compilation of Robots Falling Down at th...  

More importantly there were a lot of successful robots at DARPA too:    • Korea's Team KAIST robot completes tasks a...  

A lot of great robot news and educational sources at Robohub.org


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Music credits:

"Fluffing a Duck"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"River Valley Breakdown"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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