Re-purpose Industrial Robotic Arms

We must find out where you can acquire these industrial robots pictured above. Sure, you expect car companies like BMW to have a few lying around, which they used to make into a Twitter message writing robot. But Bungie, a video game company, to have one as part of an advertisement for Reach?

The former is just a scratch on the surface, with some pictures, but a much more decent writeup will be provided after September 12th. The latter has a few videos, and you can watch it recreate a monument with light ‘live’. And while both are impressive uses of old tech, neither answered our first question, we gotta get us one of these.

[Thanks Matt and FurryFriend]

53 thoughts on “Re-purpose Industrial Robotic Arms

  1. I’m a robot technician and these things are alot of fun. Yes they can be dangerous, but with proper safety measures they’re great. I would own one if it wasn’t for the fact that they require 3 phase power.

  2. Is anyone with Industrial Robot experience following this old thread any longer. Would really like to start a conversation discussing using a medium duty robot for motion based flight simulation.

    There is allot more software and hardware relating to this subject available since this thread was originally started back in 2010.

    Hope to hear from anyone who has a serious interest in this subject. By the way I’m a novice when it come to Robot.

    Thanks

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