#although i'll need a mechanical engineer to help me attach a downward facing vacuum gripper

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hey do you think you could whip me up a little robot guy to flip over all the puzzle pieces to be right side up? I feel like that would really enhance my jigsaw puzzle experience. should probably only take a day or two right?

tbh this sounds pretty doable if you're willing to use a jigsaw puzzle table of a very consistent color and jigsaw pieces with undersides of a very consistent color and a consistent lighting setup and a robot arm with a vacuum gripper, and you stay out of the room until it's done... ACTUALLY hang on puzzle pieces are usually shiny on the top and matte on the bottom so i can just shine a bright light from the top down and ignore all the reflective pieces with color segmentation. and build a custom table that'll jiggle around until all the pieces are flat and not on top of each other, because i do NOT have a depth camera lying around with fine enough resolution to tell stacked and unstacked pieces apart. but assuming all that works out the actual grasp poses are really straightforward!

okay i got this give me an ikea table i can hack apart, some beefy fucking vibrating motors, a dozen jigsaw puzzles you don't mind getting mangled in testing, a robot arm with a vacuum gripper, and six months 👍

also the arm will cost $30k ^_^