The robotic arm moves like a Moroccan tea tray.
MIRMI researchers find solution in centuries-old equation. The robotic arm moves like a Moroccan tea tray. Researchers at the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine intelligence (MIRMI) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a model that enables a robot to serve tea and coffee faster and more safely than humans - with no sloshing. The mathematics behind the pendulum used in the concept is more than 300 years old. Can a robot be a better waiter than a human being? To answer this question, Dr. Luis Figueredo, senior scientist in the team of Prof. Sami Haddadin, sets up a robotic arm from the specialized robot maker Franka Emika on a table and hooks up a computer. The robot's hand grips a glass filled to the brim with water, raises it and rocks it back and forth without spilling a drop. "And it does it faster and more safely than a person," says the scientist from the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) of TUM.
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