Artificial retinas can balance a pencil on its end

[Tom62]

Amazing stuff

A team of researchers has built a neural information system that is good enough and fast enough to balance a pencil in real time. If you think it's an easy task, try it! The Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH / University Zurich have used what look like video cameras to do the job but in fact they are analog silicon retinas. They work so fast that even with fairly basic hardware they can balance a pencil.

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-a ... encil.html

[DJAkuma]

There was a video I saw of a robot that could balance an inverted pendulum, and then it balanced one with a joint in the middle.

[Tom62]

There was a video I saw of a robot that could balance an inverted pendulum, and then it balanced one with a joint in the middle.

You mean this cool video?
[youtube:3gsizz6e]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH4EZ1GCrK0[/youtube:3gsizz6e]

Now that is pretty cool too.

[DJAkuma]

There was a video I saw of a robot that could balance an inverted pendulum, and then it balanced one with a joint in the middle.

You mean this cool video?
Now that is pretty cool too.

Nope, that one is cool though. The one I saw had a robot that went back and forth on a sort of track and started with the pendulum hanging down. Then it swung it until it got it upright and could balance it. Then they had it balance one with a joint in the middle