Posts by Reckless

Seeing alot of feeds on Tesla optimus robot, agility's digit and others and waiting to see if anyone will be under $100k in 2024.

The original Digit from 2020 was $250k. This is the year of the mass produced humanoid robots so when will pricing come down to $100k or less? I want to replace my entire workforce with Humanoid robots. I want one of these more than my cybertruck. Waiting for my army of T-800's to take over the world:

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From an industrial robot perspective, I respectfully and 100% disagree.

OEM's appear to be maintaining their proprietary languages and will continue to do so.

Below represents my opinion only:

I think the new generation (people) today miss out on learning the 'birth' of industrial robotics and have been catapulted into a world of evolving software that represents programming industrial robots in a very limited and different way, but not promoting the underlying proprietary languages used.

I draw you back in time to the backbone of industrial robotics with keywords like:

- Unimation.

- PUMA

- VAL

Take this video from 1981, you can see clearly applications shown still exist in manufacturing today.

Not to mention the fundamentals:

PUMA...The Leading Edge in Robotic Technology | Hagley Digital Archives

From this:

- Kawasaki Robotics was born - AS Language (from VAL) and is still used and further developed today.

- Staubli Robotics - VAL3 language (from VAL) and is still used and being further developed today.

- Fanuc - Karel language is still being used today, but not too sure if it is still being further developed.

- ABB - RAPID, I do not quite know the history, but is still being used and further developed today.

- KUKA - KRL, I do not quite know the history, but is still being used and further developed today.

So this statement in my opinion as far as industrial robotics is not entirely accurate.

However, I acknowledge we are and continue to be part of an evolving industry, but the reliance on the original proprietary languages are likely to still remain a major part of this industry.

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I was speaking about computer languages in general.
See new google blog:
Speaking robot: Our new AI model translates vision and language into robotic actions

Looking into deploying RT2 to save on labor

I am in the process of designing this low cost robot and trying to see which technology will be most suitable for it. Not interested in spending $500,000 on custom pcb manufacturing equipment. I believe it can be done for ~$5,000 or even less. There are 3d printers that run linear motors for <$500, not sure on speed. I have some industrial robots lying around cartesian, 5dof arm, slew of 3d printers and open to buying a mini high speed scara if such a thing existed (0.1 sec cycle times). I know epson's does 0.3 seconds, they recently released gyroplus technology which increases speed, similar to what 3d printers are doing with resonance sensors. For 3d printers it doubles the speed.

Trying to see which technology is most suited for this application using industrial/3d printer robots.

I might be confused but I haven't seen anything that can go that fast 0.1s/cycle. I agree 3d printers may be too slow. The cartesian robots I looked up seem even slower. Trying to see what the fastest robot for this application.

Weight is less than 5grams, need 0.01mm accuracy. At the moment considering hacking a 3d printer but prefer something more industrial but needs super speed for dot dispensing.

What kind of robots can achieve under 0.1 second cycle times? My chip shooter does 0.06 and my flex mounter 0.15 seconds. I'm trying to do a small 200mm desktop adhesive pin transfer robot (like dispensing but with contact). Would like something like a scara but only need 3 axis.

Some of these 3d printers reach super fast speeds, is there anything faster than them?

Very interesting post about their design philosophy that seems very deeply thought out:

belt stepper drive vs harmonic drive ac servos

It seems to make sense to me but non intuitive unorthodox solution. Would love to hear what robot experts have to say.

This comes close, still wishing for smaller and cheaper (ABB is synonymous with rip off to me). It still weighs 29lbs.

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I may get the Dorna 2 as it weighs 8lbs and ~90% cheaper. Any thoughts?

Those are all nice robots. Each has something nice about it. Wafer robots are also an idea like brooks automation cobot style. A fast industrial lightweight cobot is what I'm after.

Would it be cheaper to build a custom robot based off the ultraarm design but using faster nema motors? The parts look so simple it could be 3d printed but my main issue is speed. How many motors does it have? 3?

Are there any tiny industrial robots like this size? Thinner/lighter is better but more importantly FASTER.

Quote from Motouser

"IRONIC COMMENT: NO OFFENSE"

Millimeter + Ounce. What Kind of measure systems are you using???

Why the world (americans/british) are so complicated.

I think in terms of inches/lbs but use mm/g when working with pcb components.

correct for smd components and pcb assemblies. Mainly pcb assemblies 10x15mm and bigger. I prefer something like vacuum as fingers may not be as easy to grab odd shapes

What is the best gripper to pickup tiny components? Looking to find one gripper with 1mm nozzle but also be able to pickup 30mm objects (under an ounce).

I thought about that but the on/off switch is right there. I will see how fast the head moves as we are not putting any payload on it. I did find the pin out diagram and have wired a connector to bypass it per manufacturer instruction in order to enable the robot. Still not moving I'm not sure software is seeing it as properly bypassed.

There will only be myself or one other person working with robot and we dont plan on entering work envelope while robot working.

Finally no more software programmers! Does anyone know how to get access to google palm? I am dying for AI and robotics to really add value/convenience.

With PaLM-E, Google Robotics, TU Berlin, and Google Research present a new AI model that can understand and generate language, understand images, and use both together for complex robot commands.

PaLM-E’s largest model has 562 billion parameters and combines Google’s massive PaLM language model with ViT-22B, the largest vision transformer to date.

Google PaLM-E combines language, vision and robotics

With PaLM-E, Google Robotics, TU Berlin, and Google Research present a new AI model that can understand and generate language, understand images, and use both…

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I'm dying for AI to replace programmers! I don't mind giving parameters but every year there is a new computer language to learn, it gets super annoying.

I have robots from different manufacturers that I would like to work with one another in a manufacturing assembly line. Is there any software other than ROS2 recommended for mixed robot use? Has anyone had experience with ROS? I'm hiring software developers on fiverr and they are claiming its more difficult than typical arduino programming.

I see a github for cartesian robot library but not sure if it will work with my cartesian robot?

GitHub - fzi-forschungszentrum-informatik/cartesian_controllers: A set of Cartesian controllers for the ROS1 and ROS2-control framework.

A set of Cartesian controllers for the ROS1 and ROS2-control framework. - GitHub - fzi-forschungszentrum-informatik/cartesian_controllers: A set of Cartesian…

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I see ROS1 for one of my robots:

GitHub - rakutentech/dorna_arm_ros

Contribute to rakutentech/dorna_arm_ros development by creating an account on GitHub.

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I am not finding any cognex integrations?

To someone new to robotics it seems like ROS makes sense but it doesn't seem that popular with the veterans. It also seems like a pain to setup, why aren't more robots programmed/deployed in the cloud? A brand agnostic software solution seems easier to use then learn multiple manufacturers solutions. Also many of my favorite chinese bots are setup for ROS.

no more job security. The rise of sentient beings and the matrix has begun.

For some reason my robot doesn't come with an estop. It has two modes manual (500mm/s) and automatic (2000mm/s). Its carrying a 100g payload so I dont think momentum will be that high even at full speed. It does have an on/off power switch to flip robot off:

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Unlikely, though not impossible. The vast majority of ethernet ports these days auto-negotiate that, obviating the need for crossover cables. Of course, there's probably still some really cheap crap out there that doesn't. But your switch should handle this unless it is substandard -- even dirt-cheap switches usually handle this these days, and you only need one device on the cable to be capable of autonegotiating.

Problem turned out to be a different subnet or something, everything is working now. The router and robot had same address. Making a db25 breakout board to bypass emergency stop switch per manufacturer. Is that typical in robots to be setting jumpers? I would have thought it would be much simpler to setup in software/firmware to bypass pins.