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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: 0.395s | 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. gopher_space ◴[20 Apr 25 19:00 UTC] No.43745756[source]▶
We have technical high schools for all kinds of subjects all over the place. Our community colleges are also doing everything HN thinks they should be doing, and they started like thirty years ago.