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!"

Comments

It just sorts them?

[mikaelwbergene]

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. "

Overly complicated

[locutus53]

It's overly complicated for what it does. Sure, it looks neat, but c'mon, four huge arms to color sort some boxes?

Not impressed

[Bob the Super Hamste]

Still not a cool as this one which is also made entirely out of legos.

All fun and games

[The Creator]

That is, until, it decides to terminate the meat bag that keeps mixing up the colours.

Re:Another prime example

[Dails]

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?

Re:Another prime example

[adolf]

It doesn't solve any problem, it doesn't invent any new techniques, it just builds something that already exists using Lego. Woo hoo.

So much for art, eh? Must pretty boring around your place.