On 04/10/2010 11:17 AM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: > Terry sez: > >> I wonder what the true elapsed time was. It looked about 2x. > > The article sez at the end: > > "Nifty as it sounds, be prepared for a long wait if you want that pile of > towels folded. The robot took an average of 1,478 seconds - or nearly 25 > minutes - to fold each towel."
Second towel took about 22 seconds to fold on camera (chose second towel to time for no particular reason). That's 1/67 the average real time per towel, so we can probably conclude that the time lapse rate for the video is at least 50 times real time. At least this explains the weird "look" to the video. My first reaction was that the motion looked so strange, it had to be faked -- but no, it's not faked, it's just massively sped up. That also explains how the towels can just hang limply as the robot twirls them round at warp speed. > > Read More > http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/04/towel-folding-robot-could-fix-laundry > -woes/#ixzz0ki7OMVo5 > > >> Anyway, Robbie is no match for the Japanese housewife: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5AWQ5aBjgE > > Does she come in a black miniskirt and feather duster? > > Sorry... Me bad. > > Regards, > Steven Vincent Johnson > www.OrionWorks.com > www.zazzle.com/orionworks >
