A Robot With a Chainsaw!

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Posted by timothy on Sunday January 27, 2013 @07:26AM 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."

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A very slippery slope by Nidi62 · 2013-01-27 07:33 · Score: 2

We are now one step closer to robot sharks with frickin laser beams on their heads.

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Re:nihao bitches!! by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-27 07:37 · 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.
CNC machine by stenvar · 2013-01-27 07:42 · Score: 5, Insightful

A "subtractive 3D printer" is usually called a "CNC machine".
1. Re:CNC machine by ron_ivi · 2013-01-27 07:48 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  "Subtractive 3D printer" is a better term, though.
  CNC == Computer Numerical Control
  CNC would be a better acronym for a calculator.
2. Re:CNC machine by mr_mischief · 2013-01-27 07:55 · 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. Re:CNC machine by Ol+Biscuitbarrel · 2013-01-27 08:29 · Score: 2
  
  You should get a load of my "additive eraser."
4. Re:CNC machine by WrecklessSandwich · 2013-01-27 09:11 · Score: 2
  
  To be more precise, it's a CNC mill.
5. Re:CNC machine by radish · 2013-01-27 09:38 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  Not according to Wikipedia, or this site or this one or this one. You get the idea - I can't really find anything defining CNC as anything other than Computer Numerical Control(led).
  
  Sucks being both a pendant and wrong. Must sting.
  Yes, must.
  
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6. Re:CNC machine by jimshatt · 2013-01-27 10:11 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  The word is 'pedant' ;-)
7. Re:CNC machine by RespekMyAthorati · 2013-01-27 13:46 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Sucks to be a pedant who can't spell. Must sting.
8. Re:CNC machine by Smerta · 2013-01-27 15:58 · Score: 2
  
  Oh dear. It looks as though Muphry's Law strikes again!
next on the list by pswPhD · 2013-01-27 07:45 · Score: 3, Insightful

Now all they need is to collect all the sawdust, add some resin and make an additive 3D printer!
1. Re:next on the list by Yetihehe · 2013-01-27 08:16 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  Already done. http://www.3ders.org/articles/20120920-laywoo-d3-new-fdm-filament-can-print-wood-with-tree-rings.html
  
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Good machine, poor software by Animats · 2013-01-27 07:56 · Score: 5, Interesting

He has a 5-axis robot with a cutting tool. That's enough to do real sculpture. Just grinding out a three-legged table with straight cuts is far less than the machine could do. This suggests the software being used isn't a real 5-axis CNC package. He needs HyperMill. Take a look of what that can do with a 5-axis mill.
I for one... by Kotoku · 2013-01-27 07:56 · Score: 3, Funny

...welcome our new hedge pruning, tree trimming, log cutting, Edward Chainsaw-hands overlords.

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Bad chainsaw technique by 93+Escort+Wagon · 2013-01-27 08:06 · Score: 2

With a robot I suppose it doesn't matter, unless there are humans nearby; but going into a piece of wood nose first with a chainsaw is asking for trouble if you're a human. It's a good way to get a face-full of chainsaw (or foot-full, depending on the orientation).

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Re:nihao bitches!! by godrik · 2013-01-27 09:18 · Score: 4, Informative

without even mentionning that "nihao" is chinese...