Case Study 3: "The Great Sock Puppeteer"
Our team at Bizarre Engineering was tasked with creating a robotic arm that could pick up socks from the washing machine and put them away in the drawer. Sounds simple enough, right?
We spent 3 months and $200,000 on a solution that involved using a Raspberry Pi, a 3D printed arm, and a camera that took pictures of the sock every second. Yes, you read that right. Every second.
But the real kicker was the AI we built to sort the socks. It was so advanced that it could differentiate between a sock and a sock with a hole in it. We're talking real AI here, folks.
However, after 6 months of operation, our system was still only 50% accurate. That's right, 50%! It was like the socks were playing some kind of prank on us.
But we persisted! We tweaked and we tuned, and we even added a second camera to get a better view of the sock. And then, just as we were about to give up, it happened...
One of our team members, John, just decided to start using the system as a sock puppet. And it was genius! The AI was so convinced that it was actually a real sock that it just went ahead and sorted it into the drawer for us.
And so, we had a breakthrough! Not because of our fancy AI, but because of John's... creativity.
Learn about John's Creative Problem Solving Method, Find out what really went into our AI