uh… link please?

Posted at 10:56 pm on Jan 16th, 2008 by andrew

ditto. link?

Posted at 10:59 pm on Jan 16th, 2008 by aperson

Dammit. Fixed.

Posted at 11:03 pm on Jan 16th, 2008 by Will O\'Brien

no worries, my apologies for sounding a bit jerk-ish in my previous comment. anyway i must say that is one awesome set up, i love their (quasi?) 3D trajectory program, not to mention the footage from that HD camera “rental” :)

Posted at 12:03 am on Jan 17th, 2008 by andrew

Awesome! Man that was so funny. The true way robots were intended to be used.

Posted at 1:22 am on Jan 17th, 2008 by greg

this is jackass meets mythbusters
well done!

Posted at 1:59 am on Jan 17th, 2008 by Frogz

I can imagine the conversation:

“$ROBOT_COMPANY, how can I help you?”

“Hi, I’m using one of your robots to throw bowling balls an an RV, only I’m not getting enough range… Can you tell me how to get some more ‘oomph’ out of it?”

“…”

Great hack.

Posted at 4:38 am on Jan 17th, 2008 by herbicide

nice hack! according to local university legend, some dumbasses in a robotic class once managed to send a position command with a negative z component to one of these robots, which then tried to smash through the floor and finally tore itself out of its mounting.. so beware ;-)

Posted at 5:20 am on Jan 17th, 2008 by floe

Link http://manapotions.com/robopult.html

Posted at 9:02 am on Jan 17th, 2008 by Greg

That university legend is true.

What happens almost yearly is people smashing through tables because of wrongly inputed Z components.

Posted at 9:03 am on Jan 17th, 2008 by Jordan

firing carrots at bunny was a nice touch. painful, too

Posted at 10:11 am on Jan 17th, 2008 by jim

If only our robotic arms did that in the factory I work at. Best we can do is sling boxes of toothpaste from side to side.

Posted at 12:49 pm on Jan 17th, 2008 by Mike M.

That sir, was quite possibly the most awesome use of an industrial robot ever!

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Posted at 1:25 pm on Jan 17th, 2008 by Digital

I have seen the “University Legend” thing a few times. The first year kids often times ripped up tables and broke the robot’s concrete anchor bolts out of the ground. Fun times, people who do this usually are not aloud to touch the coding for their group from then on.

Posted at 1:30 pm on Jan 17th, 2008 by Nanan

But really… What else are you gonna do with an industrial arm? “Uh… how can we make it go faster?”

Posted at 1:45 pm on Jan 17th, 2008 by phnx

Looking pretty Hot Eli!!

Posted at 2:00 pm on Jan 17th, 2008 by Adriana

very entertaining

Posted at 7:45 pm on Jan 17th, 2008 by Optimus Prime + 1

i want an industrial robot to play with.

Posted at 7:53 pm on Jan 17th, 2008 by Dirk

“What happens almost yearly is people smashing through tables because of wrongly inputed Z components.”

Not necessarily a negative Z component, but I remember having to input angles for the base motor and if you did not properly reset the robot to a well known initial position then all angles will be off. Yes- there were deep scratch marks in our table because of it…

Posted at 2:33 pm on Jan 18th, 2008 by Marco

R.I.P.
Robert Williams (c. 1954 – January 25, 1979)

Posted at 11:27 pm on Jan 18th, 2008 by Kelsey

It almost looks like a Cloose robot welder. I used to run some of those.

Posted at 2:42 am on Jan 19th, 2008 by Brotherred

The making of that video looks like it must’ve cost quite a bit (borrow a robot, rent a generator, transport etc.) – who pays out that much for a hack-a-day and youtube video??

Posted at 1:23 pm on Jan 19th, 2008 by O Mattos

That’s freaking amazing. I still think I prefer the Wiimote controlling the sword…

Yay for using fun toys in ways they weren’t intended (yeah, right!)

Posted at 11:21 pm on Jan 21st, 2008 by srilyk

What a woosies to throw with such tiny objects – look for the movie of the trebuchet slinging pianos and a car! No sissy generator needed!

Posted at 12:59 pm on Jan 26th, 2008 by Chris Hayes

Wow…wild video!

Posted at 9:01 am on Jun 15th, 2009 by Jack