The secret to a smarter, smoother robot

The secret to a smarter, smoother robot - A Smarter & Smoother Robot Arm. Researchers have figured out a way to turn "moving like a robot" into a compliment. If someone tells you that you move like a robot it's not a compliment, unless you're doing the dance, just ask Al Gore. Robots have always been famous for making very rigid and stiff movements and there's a reason for that. While it's simple for a human to move their hand from the keyboard, pick up a cup of coffee, take a sip and put it back down, it's extremely difficult to come up with an equation for a robot to do the same thing.