Adept Quattro shows off terrifying speed, robotic precision (video)

See that blur in the image above? That'll be the Adept Quattro, a machine claiming the title of being the world's fastest industrial pick and place robot. On the evidence of today's video, we're not going to argue. Being demonstrated as part of the first National Robotics Week, the Quattro took on a WiiMote-controlled moving platform and still effortlessly conducted its job at a pace that would make even Usain Bolt feel inadequate. The person controlling the platform tries his best to confuse the machine with rapid changes of direction, but whatever he does, the chips are placed and removed from their repositories with unerring precision. Go past the break to see the Quattro in action.

[Shanebenn Posted Apr 19th 2010 6:11AM]

So this is why I'm not in the highscores at that bubble popping game on my iPhone.

[The Madman Posted Apr 19th 2010 6:35AM]

@Shanebenn Who in their right mind would want to buy a computer after seeing this? I want one!

[Atkins Posted Apr 19th 2010 6:58AM]

@The Madman Who in their right mind would want to buy anything to support the Rise of the machines after seeing this?

[maveric101 Posted Apr 19th 2010 2:55PM]

@Atkins well, he is the madman.

[Cyberdyne Systems Posted Apr 19th 2010 11:36PM]

@Atkins
Let him buy.

[Echuu Posted Apr 19th 2010 6:12AM]

oh hell no, we have no chance against these robotic beasts.

[Atkins Posted Apr 19th 2010 6:46AM]

@Echuu Man, we are so screwed. I think the Terminator is just some hobby project.

[spaceye Posted Apr 19th 2010 8:28AM]

@Atkins Brilliant, dude!

[airbag888 Posted Apr 19th 2010 10:57AM]

@Atkins
Dont you guys think we should drop the Terminator/End of world announcing routine every time we see a piece of brilliant technology and get off our chair and start investing our time in building bunkers instead

[Atkins Posted Apr 19th 2010 11:30AM]

@airbag888 Why didn't I thi.... I am going to get the shovel right now.

[Peppis Posted Apr 19th 2010 6:16AM]

That is fast :O Even with this robot organizing my desk real time I would still mess it up.

[r3loaded Posted Apr 19th 2010 6:18AM]

They're picking and placing chips now, soon they'll be picking and placing human skulls at high speed.

[kiyu727 Posted Apr 19th 2010 6:55AM]

@r3loaded
agreed,
humans are creating new species to destroy themself.
Such roboters are more scary than an overkill .....

[MrHym Posted Apr 19th 2010 9:28AM]

@r3loaded Turn that thing sideways and give it a nail gun and next thing you know, poof, no more pesky humans.

[dzeikei Posted Apr 19th 2010 6:20AM]

He needs motion plus to defeat that monster!

[Foxmeister Posted Apr 19th 2010 6:21AM]

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords

[n1hmrd Posted Apr 19th 2010 6:30AM]

@Foxmeister i also like to welcome them and add i hope they have a place for me,all hail skynet

[seminolemuscle Posted Apr 19th 2010 11:07AM]

@Foxmeister

i opened this article just to press ctrl f for "overlord" and there you are. congrats, you are completely predictable.

[IronFistClad Posted Apr 19th 2010 10:35PM]

@Foxmeister
I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality I could be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground silicon caves.

[Cy Starkman Posted Apr 19th 2010 6:25AM]

They will be perfect at cutting us up, oops I meant operating on us. So precise, so fast they will easily make spaghetti I mean healthy people out of us...

Yeah, hmmm. The thing about critical mass points is that you don't know until it all comes together then wham! You got a crank started car when yesterday it was just an assortment of tech demos by boffins

[Atkins Posted Apr 19th 2010 6:50AM]

@Cy Starkman Ah, don't worry so much, it'll al be ok. I mean... it'll be quick, right?

[phillipcasparjames Posted Apr 19th 2010 6:30AM]

Fastest tattoo artist in town.

[Slygathor Posted Apr 19th 2010 6:39AM]

All hail our robotic overlords. :3

[Plazmic Flame Posted Apr 19th 2010 10:25AM]

@Slygathor

This is madness!

[sk5878 Posted Apr 19th 2010 6:40AM]

great for whack-a-mole

[Atkins Posted Apr 19th 2010 6:53AM]

@sk5878 whack-em-all.

[sonola777 Posted Apr 19th 2010 6:45AM]

Skynet is alive.

[Atkins Posted Apr 19th 2010 6:54AM]

@sonola777 It has been for some time. Now it just got some hands.

[IronLantern Posted Apr 19th 2010 6:50AM]

Come on Nintendo, we need some to beat them!!!

[Atkins Posted Apr 19th 2010 6:55AM]

@IronLantern Nintendo is one of them! Don't be fooled.

[IronLantern Posted Apr 19th 2010 6:58AM]

@Atkins Maybe the Wii was a ploy to get market saturated with their products. And now they are going to activate their 'emotion chips'!!! We are so screwed.

[revoltracers Posted Apr 19th 2010 7:18AM]

@IronLantern and all the Emotion Engines of the PS2's and early PS3's...

[Atkins Posted Apr 19th 2010 7:01AM]

Where is Lord Vader? There is only the Force left to save us!

[Cyberdyne Systems Posted Apr 19th 2010 11:40PM]

@Atkins
Even Lord Vader cannot stop Skynet.

[Atkins Posted Apr 19th 2010 11:42PM]

@Cyberdyne Systems We shall see, you... machine...

[mikeplow1961 Posted Apr 19th 2010 7:08AM]

If you turn the volume up enough you can just make out the robot muttering: 'Here I am, brain the size of a planet and this is what they have me doing.'

[INsano Posted Apr 19th 2010 2:32PM]

@mikeplow1961 I'm roughly 30 million times more intelligent than you are. I'll prove it. Give me a number, any number. Wrong. See?

[wesh Posted Apr 19th 2010 2:50PM]

@mikeplow1961 There's a man who knows where his towel is!
I'll be right here in this corner, with my towel over my head.

[cdf74dc9 Posted Apr 19th 2010 7:31AM]

Speed up production and fire more people. Men is moving forward.

[C3PO Posted Apr 19th 2010 7:41AM]

R2 says that the chances of survival are 725 to 1.
Actually R2 has been known to make mistakes... from time to time...

Oh dear.

[jembarnes Posted Apr 19th 2010 7:43AM]

The fear is tangible. It doesn't have a gun but it does have an off switch.

[mrqs Posted Apr 19th 2010 8:10AM]

@jembarnes

but can you reach it in time?

[mrqs Posted Apr 19th 2010 8:10AM]

@mrqs

... before it gets to your off switch


(still need the edit button engadget)

[mojopagoda Posted Apr 19th 2010 8:41AM]

Made me think of how cats react when you keep moving the ball of string around to "play" with them ... they eventually start chasing the hand.

[cypherx Posted Apr 19th 2010 10:04AM]

Now with all wheel drive.

[jahcriado Posted Apr 19th 2010 10:21AM]

I hear this is how the Geth got started. Lazy Quarians.

[AbsoluteDesignz Posted Apr 19th 2010 11:23AM]

Jesus Christ...All the movies made it look like we have a chance against the machines...

LIARS!!!!

[Atkins Posted Apr 19th 2010 11:33AM]

@AbsoluteDesignz We will use the directors and the actors in our front lines. Or as bait?

[AbsoluteDesignz Posted Apr 19th 2010 12:01PM]

@Atkins well considering the deceptive hope they gave us in their films (at least most of them) I say we use them as bait to distract them while we build a massive underground city near the core for the survivors of the upcoming robot apocalypse...original idea

[Atkins Posted Apr 19th 2010 10:15PM]

@AbsoluteDesignz We must patent this.