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A 1980s toy robot arm inspired modern robotics

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125 points danso | 1 comments | 17 Apr 25 15:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.655s | source
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gedy ◴[20 Apr 25 15:18 UTC] No.43744329[source]▶
I'm impressed Hiroyuki Watanabe was only 24 years old when he invented/led this.

> “I didn’t have a period where I studied engineering professionally. Instead, I enrolled in what Japan would call a technical high school that trains technical engineers, and I actually [entered] the electrical department there,” he told me.

I think this approach is sorely needed again, in the US at least.

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1. hinkley ◴[20 Apr 25 16:12 UTC] No.43744685[source]▶
There was a math and science school in my state but it was a boarding school, and that did not seem like a good idea for me.