Robots from ABB perform amazing feats of coordination, prove better conversationalists than your average Fantana (video)
By Tim Stevens 
posted Oct 20th 2009 8:22AM
posted Oct 20th 2009 8:22AM
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So what, big deal, I saw similar demo's and even better ABB robots in the Volvo factory do just as amazing stuff back in college some 15 years ago. Who should be getting kudos here is the ABB programmers as they're the ones that made this possible, not really the robots themselves.
If they would sell programmers that would be an awesome idea. But I don't think going "if you're really awesome and extremely skilled, you can make our products do very cool stuff" is a good strategy in selling robots.
wow, a robot m'enage 'a trois.
am I the only one who hasnt seen a green canned fanta product? what flavor is that anyways?
Ugh, this is like a cheesy magic show!
They also have very sensitive 3 dimensional pressure sensors and advanced dynamic artificial intelligence, so if you in any way hinder their paths they’ll pick your eyes out and beat you to death.
Why doesn't VH-1 do a show about what ABBA's been up to lately? First taking on the 1970s pop music scene and now building robots? Amazing!
What's that? ABB?
Nevermind.
ABBsolutely awful joke, made worse by this sh!t one!
You guys are BARKING up the wrong tree..
Wait, what did you guys just do??
*ponders the benefits with the addition of a fleshlight
You're a sick person.
And now I'm pondering it too.....
What will they do when the cans aren't glued to the bottom?
They will use their built-in 6-axis gravitational sensors to detect the slight change of gravitational pull created by the individual cans flying through the air. They will then coordinate their attack, the one with the stick will smack the cans down, one by one, and the other two will catch them and crush them between the food trays.
They will then reassemble into a two-legged walking Terminator and kill everyone. With all less-than-1-mm of tolerance.
those cans of fanta are open! someone drank the damn fanta.. no wonder the robots have nothing better to do than play with the cans
No no no - Fantana! Get it right!
[per the title]
...the fantanas were the chicks who *wanted* you to drink the fanta. Took me a minute to remember, too.
1) The announcer sounds like the kind that are in commercials for children's toys.
2) I love Fanta. Look at all the exotic flavors!
This would make an awsome chocolate milk stirrer!!!
I work with FANUC industrial robots every day. The average person might find this impressive, but it's nothing too difficult at all.
Is this a commercial for Fanta?
Well, they first tried it with Red Bull cans, but found that this wasn't as impressive.
Forget the fanta. Put a boxing glove on each one and let's have some rock em sock em industrial robots!
I tell you...the day is coming!
Was this the narrator for the G.I. Joe commercials back in the 80s? Also, that music takes me back .. to about 1987
Memories
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW38e8ZzkGE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8W6on4O6bQ
Ahhh...Fanta and Faygo the lost soda cans of the 80's have risen again.
fanta fanta dont u wanta?
mmhmm
You had me at "Buy more get the more"
Which asshole keeps buying things from this guy and giving him the idea that this is ok?
I have built these things and their control modules :)
So this is what robot sex looks like.....
I just got a flash of Bishop doing the hand-knife trick in Aliens.
Wouldn't of been the same film if he used fanta cans (though it would of led to less injuries in my school).
neat, yeah.... articulation, cool..... amazing? meh.... given enough time you could program those to do whatever you wanted. simply playing "maze" through a couple soda cans is no feat, its could be done as simple as slowley moving the pins through each and recording the "safe" zones in and then plotting a path through the safe zones in slow motion, then once its in you can turn up the speed as much as you can. sure it takes precision and control to be able to make sure that there movements are tite and the same every time, but thats why those things are huge.
They're huge because they put cars together.
Way to go numbnuts...you repeated exactly what the guy said in the video, which is actually a feature of their robots, but failed to grasp the significance of the progress.
I'll take 10.
Attach razor sharp knifes instead of the trays and have the programmer shove his hands in there, moving them about. Now that would be proof it's accurate.
The sound at 1:11 is brilliant. Is that what happens when you compile?
"Have you ever seen machines running with such speed and precision?"
Yes, CNC machines (miller, wench)...
Those are much much much less complicated.