As if flipping pancakes wasn’t hard enough, tradition demands they hold a coin in the other hand while the pancake is turned. If the crêpe is flipped over on the first attempt, it’s thought ...
[Petar and Sylvain] are teaching this robot to flip pancakes. It starts with some kinesthetic learning; a human operator moves the robot arm to flip a pancake while the robot records the motion.
In 2002, a physics lecturer at the University of Birmingham came up with a science-based approach for the perfect pancake flip. Dr Garry Tungate based his study on a 50 gr pancake, looking at ...