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Working Model Factory Made With Lego Robots
kkleiner writes "In his continuing obsession with all things Lego, robotic, and awesome, Chris Shepherd recently constructed the Lego Quad Delta Robot System, a full working model of an industrial robotics line in a factory. The Lego Quad Delta Robot System has four flexing arms that can move in three dimensions, each equipped with a pneumatically driven gripper. Those arms pick up blocks moving on two conveyor belts marked with special light sensors that detect the block's position and color. The system can move 48 of these blocks per minute. Oh, and the whole darn thing, including the impressive support frame, is made out of Lego!"
Amazing! I want one!
You got the touch!
It looks neat, but it's just a color sorting machine? It doesn't actually put anything together.
"A factory (previously manufactory) or manufacturing plant is an industrial building where laborers manufacture goods or supervise machines processing one product into another. "
It's overly complicated for what it does. Sure, it looks neat, but c'mon, four huge arms to color sort some boxes?
I don't know of any other childrens' toy that can also be used for producing working versions of master theses. Well, maybe an erector set...but I don't even think they make those anymore.
If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits
I'm thoroughly impressed with the size of that basement. His mother's house must be huge.
it's neat, and pretty interesting it's also colour smart. Must be a sloooow news day. I mean, it's not like all the Christians are out mourning the loss of Christ or anything. Wait a minute... :)
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. - Peter F. Drucker
At that point, I'll know I should be afraid.
This guy needs a girl friend.
I'm out of a job at the block sorting factory :(
This is cool, but clearly what needs to be done is to build a lego replicator. Surely it's possible to build a factory out of lego that can build a wide variety of lego objects, including a copy of itself.
Then you just feed it a bunch of parts, wait for the exponential growth to kick in, and then you can cloudsource assembly of many lego models. You could sell the (the models or the factories) for a little over the cost of the constituent legos + electricity and still make money.
Still not a cool as this one which is also made entirely out of legos.
Time to offend someone
That is, until, it decides to terminate the meat bag that keeps mixing up the colours.
FRA: STFU GTFO
I'm awfully sick of hearing people talk about smart technicians this way. I guess playing basketball and having lots of sex is the meaningful way to live your life. Incidentally, have you ever seen the beginning of the movie Idiocracy?
And the fact that this guy was even able to making something mimicking what the actual robots do is quite remarkable.
Robots of the same design used in sorting muffins can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHuDvVa7mkw
If lego parts could be upgraded to move faster, then perhaps it'd appear more impressive.
The block sorting lego robot arms are pretty cool and all, but this lego monster machine is by far a lot more entertaining and worth every minute of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWd3vgLaA_M
Well, at least to me cause I'm a nerd. =p
This space is not for rent.
What I've always wanted is a machine that you dump all your legos into and it sorts them by color, not just special blocks but any lego piece. Another sort that would be very useful is by type: short beams, long beams, small panels, big panels, wheels, axles, gears, technic beams, etc...
is Lego. No 's' required.
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I for one welcome our new robot overloads
To take the blocks from the bins and place them at the beginning of the belts? Man, what a slacker.
Ok people, the reason this is cool is because he replicated a specific type of factory robot called a 'pick and place delta robot', not because he couldn't think of any other way to sort the blocks. This type of robot is the fastest way to sort and place objects that are coming down a conveyor belt at random intervals and placements.
The fact that the submitter made it sound like you were going to be watching a manufacturing robot does not make this less impressive.
Check out a video of how a real delta robot looks in action, and you can see how cool it is that he was able to achieve this with only legos: Bosch Paloma-D2 Packaging Robot
Chris Shepherd, fights for Robots, want to marry his creation, ex-wife weeps.
I guess playing basketball and having lots of sex is the meaningful way to live your life.
Biologically, it's the only meaningful way.
Incidentally, you never hear people say that about people who actually contribute to society. This isn't contributing to society. This is wasting time building something entirely useless using techniques other people came up with.
It doesn't solve any problem, it doesn't invent any new techniques, it just builds something that already exists using Lego. Woo hoo.
I expected to see a little shiny endoskeleton looking around in confusion while a small blonde figure hides behind a stairway.
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
i bet my dick gets sucked more than yours, says the builder. in fact, i guarantee it
The next step of course is to build it in Minecraft.
So much for art, eh? Must pretty boring around your place.
Kid-proof tablet..
were also, essentially, sorting machines.
they counted census cards, and sorted them into stacks.
It was made in 1784 by Monks from St Thomas the Redeemer. It lasted several years until the Visigoths burned it down.