A colleague was intrigued by Intuitive Surgical's use of a grape to demonstrate the efficacy of its Da Vinci surgical robot:
Thank you for bringing this bizarre advertising ploy to our attention. I found the Youtube video of the robot peeling a grape absolutely agonizing to watch. As you may have noticed, it was not doing a very good job. It was slow and awkward (ten minutes to peel half a grape??) and stabbed and sliced the poor grape in ways that can only evoke pity. If you would like to see an effective, no-nonsense way to peel a grape, try this video:
Thank you for bringing this bizarre advertising ploy to our attention. I found the Youtube video of the robot peeling a grape absolutely agonizing to watch. As you may have noticed, it was not doing a very good job. It was slow and awkward (ten minutes to peel half a grape??) and stabbed and sliced the poor grape in ways that can only evoke pity. If you would like to see an effective, no-nonsense way to peel a grape, try this video:
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