If you like things like coil gun armed robosapiens, then you’ll thank [Aaron] for sharing his teams quest for the ultimate in stupid robot tricks. They hauled a 2800 pound industrial robot to the desert and used it to toss bowling balls… at an innocent RV. To top things off, they even lit one on fire. He even had to call the manufacturer up and sweet talk them into telling him how to speed up the robot so they could throw the balls even harder. The fire I can understand, but I’ve got no explanation for the roman gladiator or the bunny suit. Videos embedded after the break.
uh… link please?
ditto. link?
Dammit. Fixed.
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” :)
Awesome! Man that was so funny. The true way robots were intended to be used.
this is jackass meets mythbusters
well done!
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.
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 ;-)
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That university legend is true.
What happens almost yearly is people smashing through tables because of wrongly inputed Z components.
firing carrots at bunny was a nice touch. painful, too
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.
That sir, was quite possibly the most awesome use of an industrial robot ever!
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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.
But really… What else are you gonna do with an industrial arm? “Uh… how can we make it go faster?”
Looking pretty Hot Eli!!
very entertaining
i want an industrial robot to play with.
“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…
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It almost looks like a Cloose robot welder. I used to run some of those.
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??
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!)
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!
Wow…wild video!
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