Re: Ringing robots

[John Schreiner <jeschreiner17 gmail com>]

I think the humans have to be the sophisticated ones. At the beginning the
humans were a bit fast, but assimilated with the robot speed.

John

On Monday, June 29, 2020, Alan Durfee <adurfee mtholyoke edu> wrote:

> I wonder how well they handle irregularities in the rhythm.  In fact 
> there
> must be a pretty sophisticated computer program behind all this.
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 9:41 AM Don Morrison <dfm ringing org> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 6:18 AM Ed Futcher via Boston-change-ringers
> > <boston-change-ringers cosmos phy tufts edu> wrote:
> > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XbW8z3lqW8
> >
> > They look more like the real people I’m used to ringing with than do
> > those Men In Black (with brown shoes) in Handbell Stadium!
> >
> > I’m intrigued by how well the robots make the bells strike: just
> > waving a bell up and down typically isn’t good enough, you need to
> > have a firm end so the inertia of the clapper overcomes the resistance
> > of the spring. I wonder if they’ve got the mechanical action doing
> > that? Or if, perhaps, instead they’ve made the springs really loose: I
> > could see that being possible with an extremely regular, mechanical
> > thingie, where it would make a mess of it for less predictable humans.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Don Morrison <dfm ringing org>
> > “Lisp doesn't look any deader than usual to me.”
> >    — David Thornley, replying to a question older than
> >                      most programming languages
> >
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