According to @Alvy — July 21, 2024
The great Mark Rober’s channel shows how the design and construction process and puzzle solving robot that works with common parts and designs without requiring human assistance from start to finish. But other than that, it turns out that it does 200 faster than anyone else, including Tammy McLeod, who holds the Guinness Book of World Records for solving puzzles. It’s much better than the previous attempts, which were good but didn’t live up to all expectations.
The robot in question called Jigsaw, uses precision servo motors and a suction cup to lift, rotate and position parts, sa 0.005 degree accuracy. In addition, it has a pair of cameras in its “big friendly eyes” that take high-resolution images that can be used to classify the pieces and feed them to an algorithm that compares the curves of each side to find the one that fits. the most perfect. You can read the full explanation and all the details in the 50-page summary (The Jigsaw Robot, or: How we solved the puzzle in 15 months).
Although there is some nonsense in the video, it is interesting to see the various challenges and how they overcome them: problems with the accuracy of the software, the mechanism, etc. Until the end, there is a trick with the exact fit of the pieces, absurd mistakes like moving the puzzle on the table, and other interesting things.
Finally, there is a an all-white 1000-piece puzzle competition, which is a bit on the high end of complexity for this type of puzzle. The robot solved it in less than 4 hours, beating McLeod, the human champion, who had to declare that even in this category of everyday skills, our species could no longer compete with machines.
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