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0 pointsoblio1y ago0 comments

I'm far from a piano player, but I can definitely push piano buttons quite quickly while zipping up my jacket when it's cold and/or wet outside is really difficult.

Even more so for picking up coins from a flat surface.

For robotics, it's kind of obvious, speed is rarely an issue, so the "5x" part is almost trivial. And you can program the sequence quite easily, so that's also doable. Piano keys are big and obvious and an ergonomically designed interface meant to be relatively easy to press, ergo easy even for a prosthetic. A small coin on a flat surface is far from ergonomic.

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yongjik1y ago

I play piano as a hobby, and the funny thing is, if my hands are so cold that I can't zip up my jacket, there's no way I can play anything well. I know it's not quite zipping up jackets ;) but a human playing the piano does require a fast feedback loop.

croemer1y ago

But how do you deliberately control those fingers to actually play yourself what you have in mind rather than something preprogrammed? Surely the idea of a prosthetic does not just mean "a robot that is connected to your body", but something that the owner control with your mind.

vidarh1y ago

Nobody said anything about deliberately controlling those fingers to play yourself. Clearly it's not something you do for the sake of the enjoyment of playing, but more likely a demonstration of the dexterity of the prosthesis and ability to program it for complex tasks.

The idea of a prosthesis is to help you regain functionality. If the best way of doing that is through automation, then it'd make little sense not to.