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A Robot With a Chainsaw!

Posted by timothy on from the make-it-stop-make-it-stop dept.

mikejuk writes "If you are a fan of the Sci-Fi sub-genre of robot apocalypses, you may well not want to give a robot a chainsaw to wield. If, on the other hand, you are a creative artist, then it seems well worth the risk, as this video demonstrates. In this case the robot is a standard industrial arm with an electric chainsaw mounted where the gripper would normally go. Exactly what the robot is doing isn't obvious to the viewer, but once it is finished the whole thing is disassembled to reveal two wooden stools and some interesting shapes. A robot with a chainsaw is just a subtractive 3D printer."

4 of 101 comments (clear)

  1. Re:nihao bitches!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Honda is Japanese. The same goes for Samurai. HTC is Taiwanese.

    The porn cartoons, bullet trains, and "all that shit" is less specific, but Japan, the "land of the rising sun", is strongly implied. This is not a terribly strong argument to learn Korean.

    Also, your post ends with an extraneous quotation mark.

  2. CNC machine by stenvar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A "subtractive 3D printer" is usually called a "CNC machine".

    1. Re:CNC machine by mr_mischief · · Score: 3, Insightful

      A CNC machine already exists and doesn't look like part of a human. Slashdot loves new things, robots, things that cut, things that are overly powerful, and things that seem dangerous. Honestly, a CNC milling, cutting, and routing machine could often use something like a chainsaw in its initial steps to speed things up. This guy might have inspired something useful.

      tl;dr : CNC is useful, but a robot with a chainsaw is fucking cool

  3. next on the list by pswPhD · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Now all they need is to collect all the sawdust, add some resin and make an additive 3D printer!