• Question: what is your latest invention

    Asked by jp to Peppe on 6 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Giuseppe Cotugno

      Giuseppe Cotugno answered on 6 Nov 2017:


      One of the latest things I found is that when a person approaches an object with the hand to do something with it (say use it as an hammer), his/her motion has a well defined structure which can be mathematically represented. This mathematical representation can be encoded in a software and a human-like robot. Next step is to verify whether behaving in a similar way to a human (using the mathematical description above) would make the robot as dexterous and agile in taking and using objects as the human was or if something has to be changed. I am currently working on this part right now.

      All those are theoretical findings or practical tests which can be used to write a document (patent) which describes an invention, this description can be later bought by a company which will allow it to sell a product based on my findings.

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