ABB’s Super Fast Industrial Robots Impress [Videos]

http://singularityhub.com/2009/10/20/abbs-super-fast-industrial-robots-impress-videos/

by kkleiner • 17 years ago

21 10 17 years ago

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sprsquish• 17 years ago

As impressive as the actual robots are, I'm more impressed with the "dance" they created to show these off.

sdfx• 17 years ago

The videos demonstrating their flex-picker are impressive as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHuDvVa7mkw&feature=youtu... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg8YYuLLoM0&feature=youtu...

rauljara• 17 years ago

Not to bash on the technical prowess required to make these robots, but that looks like an awfully wide millimeter.

kkleiner• 17 years ago

its 1 millimeter between the can and the pin, not 1 millimeter between the cans

raintrees• 17 years ago

I am surprised the cans are so stationary as the tray moves...

weaksauce• 17 years ago

you can see the double sided tape in the first video

Nwallins• 17 years ago

Darn, I thought the movements were calculated to take gravity, momentum, and friction into account, thus keeping the cans stationary. There has to be a better or more succinct term for this phenomenon -- centrifugal or centripetal force is involved, surely.

joezydeco• 17 years ago

Four or five years ago I saw a similar demonstration at Sensor Expo. The robots were picking loose Starburst candies off a belt moving in one direction, and arranging them into colored words on a belt moving in the other direction. Blew my mind.

gcanyon• 17 years ago

As the Robot Devil said, "They're VERY good hands."