All that noise and getting sheared?! the horror.

Posted at 12:17 pm on May 4th, 2009 by BigD145

Sheep is like plz dont malfunction like you did on lamb chop… poor lamb chop… rip

Posted at 12:23 pm on May 4th, 2009 by Nicklaus Michael (Cold)

Looking forward to the day when i can get my hair cut by friendly robots like this one

Posted at 12:35 pm on May 4th, 2009 by error1

Holy crap that thing is ridiculously complicated. That arm itself has a huge number of DOF and the whole thing is slower than a human.

Waaaaaaaaaaay overengineered

Posted at 12:42 pm on May 4th, 2009 by Hackius

Don’t let Preston see this thing…

Posted at 12:47 pm on May 4th, 2009 by Orkie

that just seems cruel.

Posted at 12:51 pm on May 4th, 2009 by bancroft

wow I am not like a member of PETA or anything.

but damn that sheep was like “holy shit let me go oh god I am gonna die FUUUUUCCCKKKKK!”

Posted at 1:04 pm on May 4th, 2009 by epicelite

Usually I have a high tolerance for stuff involving animals but that video is hard to watch.

Posted at 1:28 pm on May 4th, 2009 by andrew

I will forgo any jokes about dreams.

Posted at 2:03 pm on May 4th, 2009 by el tejon

holy crap that looks horrible. I’m pretty sure Peta is already tracking down that person to take vengeance.

Posted at 2:36 pm on May 4th, 2009 by sheeps

oh im sure it would have caught on, if it weren’t for the obvious animal rights issue. i’m not exactly a member of peta, but that things fucking cruel.

Posted at 4:07 pm on May 4th, 2009 by amk

Interesting, seems overly complicated. Takes over 5 minutes to shear the sheep, where as a person (albeit a pro) can shear one in 17 seconds flat.

Posted at 4:11 pm on May 4th, 2009 by tye

amazing, that machine is a thing of beauty. i felt a little bad for the sheep though. poor thing must’ve been scared silly, but it didnt look like it was getting hurt

Posted at 4:18 pm on May 4th, 2009 by andres

Wow… I’m certainly not an animal leftist by any means, but that is just mean. A human can do the job in under 2 minutes and the sheep doesn’t have to be strapped into a rack the whole time. By all means, shear the sheep, but at least get it over with quickly.

Posted at 5:29 pm on May 4th, 2009 by pseudoanonymous coward

As someone who has experience in shearing sheep, let me just say:

WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK

That is the most frightening and inhumane and pointless device I have ever witnessed.

#1 The sheep are already unhappy about being sheared. I cannot imagine the terror of that animal.

#2 It seems far slower than doing it yourself.

#3 WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK

Posted at 5:32 pm on May 4th, 2009 by Horrified

WTF This has to be the most aweful thing i have seen, i mean im not a peta member and i eat ALOT of meat, but that thing is fucking horrible. I hope the inventers of this die a slow horrible death.

Posted at 5:46 pm on May 4th, 2009 by shadow

how dare they use such a cheesy ripple circle wipe, I thought the sheep exploded!

Posted at 5:49 pm on May 4th, 2009 by Brad

As someone who has shorn a sheep, that has to be a joke. By the time you have strapped her in that thing, a real shearer could have easily done one and had a cuppa.
Another thing, a shearer typically travels from farm to farm, shearing on location. One immobile robot couldn’t shear enough sheep to be worth it’s while.

Posted at 5:49 pm on May 4th, 2009 by AK

Damn, play Quake 4 to see to some point how that sheep felt

Posted at 5:56 pm on May 4th, 2009 by ?!?

I pity the sheep. hahaha..

Posted at 7:26 pm on May 4th, 2009 by tinybrowneyes18

that is just wrong on so many levels…

Posted at 10:25 pm on May 4th, 2009 by bountyx

The tree-trimming video linked to in the description, however, was frikin cool.

Posted at 10:47 pm on May 4th, 2009 by Dan

Hahaha!

That robot was designed/built by one of my Mechatronics lecturers at UWA!

Its downstairs in the engineering building!

Posted at 11:58 pm on May 4th, 2009 by dopplershift

Wow if that thing has a sensor go bad I would hate to see what would happen to the poor sheep. To make sure it is safe the designers should have to have their heads immobilized in a clamping system and get a brush cut from the system. If they would do that I am thinking that it is then safe.

Posted at 1:21 am on May 5th, 2009 by Alan Parekh

For all that effort you’d think it would at least knit a sweater while it’s at it.

@orkie: Agreed. Wouldn’t take much modification at all for a malevolent cyborg dog to convert this to a Mutton-O-Matic.

Posted at 4:09 am on May 5th, 2009 by dokein

-1 point for hackaday for sharing this.

Posted at 4:31 am on May 5th, 2009 by Terramoto

An interesting proof that engineering isnt always the solution to every problem! While its an interesting problem, shearing a sheep robotically, it just begs the question “why?”. As an exercise in robotics – fair enough, but dont use a real sheep. As a real product? Surely the consequence of too little time in the real world. I’d love to know the answer!

Posted at 6:41 am on May 5th, 2009 by James

Im sure peta is already busy enough killing stray animals to care. : D

On another note, that tree extractor would not suit the sheep as it would probably take the limbs of the sheep off with it <.<

Posted at 7:02 am on May 5th, 2009 by blizzarddemon

Reminded me of this:

http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF197-Automatic_Business.jpg

Posted at 7:54 am on May 5th, 2009 by Mike

I like the way it carefully and slowly shears around the sheep’s belly button. I would assume it took a few ‘trials’ to get that done right without unzipping the poor test subject accidentally.

Posted at 8:06 am on May 5th, 2009 by cynic

that has got to be one of the funniest things i’vs seen. That sheep has got to be scared shitless

Posted at 8:26 am on May 5th, 2009 by Justin

I grew up on a sheep farm, and once we had the shearer set up, we could finish our herd (250 sheep) in about two and a half to three hours — counting the time it took to bag the wool and get the next sheep ready.

Posted at 8:58 am on May 5th, 2009 by mydnight

This is Great !!!

Obama fans are sheep.

They should all get thier hair cut this way !!!!

Posted at 9:22 am on May 5th, 2009 by Patrick

Are you guys serious about all this “cruelty”?

Nothing like a bunch of inexperienced people to be critical of a process that went pretty smooth compared to what could have happened.

This shearing went pretty damn well for that sheep; a lot of shears can be rough and the sheep can get nicks in their skin that bleed for a while. It certainly went a hell of a lot faster/cleaner than non-electric blade shears would have.

Here’s a bit more info:
http://www.sheep101.info/shearing.html

/has participated in sheep shearing and seen bad things compared to this. This shearing was pretty damn slow, but the way the machine kept the cutter floating above the skin was pretty awesome looking, to me.

Posted at 9:31 am on May 5th, 2009 by Louis II

What the fuck!

That is the worst thing I have seen for a long time.

Please tell me Hackaday didn’t put this up because they thought it was cool!

I cannot believe humans disrespect for animals sometimes!

Someone needs to BAN this.

Posted at 11:28 am on May 5th, 2009 by fred

i wonna put the creator in this machine
and cut the hair cock with that robotic arm….

now i know becouse the world is going bad…

Posted at 11:50 am on May 5th, 2009 by DAXweb

holy sheep sheer batman. that is ridiculous and damn scary to watch. I can imagine what that sheep is thinking. something along the lines of holy truck.

Posted at 2:54 pm on May 5th, 2009 by baby_zapp3r

Oh my, what a horrid thing to watch. Shows how you can make the coolest contraptions for pretty hideous stuff.

That treecutter is awesome, though. I’d like to drive one, except the guys who get to do it have to cut trees all day and that would be _boooring_.

Posted at 3:40 pm on May 5th, 2009 by exarkun

I’m not sure this is as much automatic shearing as it is remote shearing.
At 4:59 in the clip you can see what might be the hand-held control device.
Given the complexities of the task and the age of the video, it wouldn’t surprise me if the robot shear was just mimicking the movements of the contoling humans hand-held “mouse”.

Posted at 4:53 pm on May 5th, 2009 by Paul G

im not a big animal right activist. in fact some things might just be funny some times but this shit is wicked … the sheep must be stressed as hell ! i can only imagine doing this to a human … pretty fucked up right !?

Posted at 5:12 pm on May 6th, 2009 by Mr.Payne

@ dopplershift – (if it’s the same machine) A few years ago I actually worked for one of the guys who made it. He told us a fair few stories about it. From the video it actually worked better than I thought. :)

Posted at 11:41 pm on May 6th, 2009 by Tane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdXo-jU-IBI
I WANT ONE!! by the way, does anyone know what this machine actually is? like who makes it and what its called
the tree terminator deserve’s it’s own hackaday page, NOT the sheep video
do me a favor caleb or eliot or ANYONE
replace the primary embed of the sheep video with the tree raper

Posted at 11:18 pm on May 7th, 2009 by frogz

holy carp! new HAD feature?!?!?!
how long have videos autoembeded?!

Posted at 11:42 pm on May 7th, 2009 by frogz

hello
please i need i machine of cheap give a model and price thank you

Posted at 10:51 pm on May 11th, 2009 by toufik

haha that is scary as all hell,

the sheep looks like its sedated thank god, or scared to death, or actually dead, LOL. AND oh my god is that thing slow. nice idea but just not cost effective im sure, let alone the possible ethics? does do a clean job thou.

Posted at 12:52 pm on Jun 1st, 2009 by Jerrem

Animales!!! por que no practicáis con vuestra cabeza o la de vuestros hijos?

Posted at 6:04 am on Jun 7th, 2009 by linksysds