Here’s an idea for the next time you’re asked to put together a trade show display: the “Instant Insanity” puzzle. Take four cubes and put one of four colors on each face of each cube. Randomly distribute the cubes over a flat surface, then have a robot stack them so that each color only appears once on each side of the stack.
Not so easy, huh? You need a color camera, diffuse white light, a robot, calibration between vision system and robot, an end-effector, good software …. Maybe a task for Cognex VisionPro 6?
Yet scientists demonstrated just such a system at Stanford University way back in 1971. (That’s thirty-nine years ago, for the arithmetically-challenged among you.) This video, (posted on the “Media development” blog,) shows the system in operation. The voiceover and associated text explain what’s going on.
Watch closely and be in awe of those who went before us. We are truly standing on the shoulders of giants.
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