Can I Out-Weld a $100,000 Robot? 

I've programmed ABB, Kawasaki, Fanuc, and OTC welding robots. This looks like a dream in comparison. The best out of the ones I used to work with were ABB, but this looks light years ahead. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for visiting us! It was great doing this with you @TimWelds !

Super cool, Tim! Thanks for another great one!

The biggest advantage of a robot is the scalability. If you have to weld the same piece 1000 times, this would be perfect.

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing!

I really appreciate you putting out this video. I want to know all about automation and robotics. Even more technical detail would be nice, as well as a list of limitations and niche use cases.

I’d love to get one of those. But as I can’t find the excuse to get a laser welder, I certainly can’t find an excuse for this. But these are some of the things for my bucket list.

Fun to see today's advancement. Only gets better.

That is so cool! Im jealous you get to go play with all types of toys like this! 👍 Cool video Tim!

You're good, my friend, but there's no way you can beat a Terminator!!!

I've always thought these Cobots would be a benefit to small fab shops with small production runs allowing them to better compete with larger companies. They are an investment just like a CNC plasma but I think you could quickly make that back depending on the increased amount of product you can produce.

Nashville! You were only about 45 minutes from my shop.

How exciting, those UR robots are awesome! What kind of tacos did the robot want?

Ok John Henry… The steel welding man.

That was pretty awesome.

That is so cool.

A few people here seem really scared that a robot will take their jobs. That tells me all about the quality of work they do if a one armed robot can do better.

Interesting, but the $100k needs to be included in a ROI calculation.

How much does the robot cost?

Yes you can, because the time for you to setup, configure, apply, and just know what your welding and why, is not something the robot can even do by itself. Repetitive line welding sure, but who wants to do that forever. When the robot can walk up and weld without help then it may could beat you.😎😎😎

Crap!! I really thought I had more time before robots 🤖 took over my trade … Aghh I need to start learning more about this to keep up or I’ll be left behind .. hmmm

the robot can out-weld you 24/7 for a month without needing calibration that is for sure😅

Looks like a festo robot arm

Of course you can!!!

I've worked in pipe fabrication for a few years and those robots aren't as great as they seem. Always have to re-program it, needs repairs often, and the welds still fail x-ray/bend test every now and then

See the "beer pong" video. Uses the same arm.

Very expensive robot, because standard welding Robots like ABB, Fanuc or Kuka cost 25-35k €

🇩🇰 Danish Robot 👍🇩🇰 Universal Robots

Cool... or should I say hot?

Universal robotics Its a danish Company

I think your welds look better than the robot's

yet men made the damn machines

100 000$ 🤔

No you cant. Unless you can survive on no pay and can work 24/7.

Everything has to be set up perfectly for it to weld

I think plenty of people can outweld a machine. They just can't do it consistently...for 24 hours a day.

Can you weld 24/7 then no you can not

Those UR’s don’t actually offer any benefits compared to comparable small “normal” robot, that has similar features. It’s true that UR brought them in to market in a compact and affordable form factor first. The issue is with those 90-decree joints. They are not as rigid as a normal configuration and you get multiple singularities, while normal config has usually just one per 12 base configs. So it’s far worse if you try to program it using coordinates or using a CAM software

taking jobs

The biggest disadvantage of a robot is that it will never feel proud of its work at the end of the day, nor will it have fun while doing it. You can fake fun in software but it will never be real fun.

Even if the most skilled welder in the world could beat a welding robot, how many years of experience and practice did it take to become the best welder in the world? Humans will never beat machines, who will continue to improve as time goes one, and will never need experience and practice to be better than us. The lower class, which is defined by their necessity to perform work to continue eating and participating in society, has lost the war to those who own the means of production. If your income comes from an employment contract to perform jobs, then you will be replaced probably by the year 2030 and there is little you can do to stop it. Simple logic led us to this inevitability, the weakest link in all supply chains at this moment is the "human" labor. A human welder gets sick, suffers fatal injuries, and is extremely expensive. This technology will collapse consumer markets, and destroy western populations. Not to mention it is going to drive the price of electricity through the roof.

No you cant. But if someone doesn't pay welders, they cannot buy products welded by robots

The key is to have robotic fabrication do all the manufacturer out of any material at cost of raw materials and recycle. By having robotic printers and stations for every part in any assembly that is needed for any piece of technology you wish all from digital file all at cost of raw materials. Independent. This is the key for you to have everything at one 40th the price you're paying retail and to solve poverty and war the technology is beginning capable of being able to do this by a collection of the best printers speed accuracy and materials from the trade shows and it accelerates. The rate of deflation on the retail price of these machines basically generally it's 50% rate of deflation every two years. So within around eight years you're getting them close to free this is the rate of acceleration in the development because of the medium of personal computing the amount of transistors on the microchip doubling in less than a year it's called the exponential rate of returns on technological development based on the microchip same pricing is liquid crystal display screens for instance you can see the same it applies to all output of digital tech. With a model of crowdsource purchase of all the printers to print any part in any assembly it costs of raw materials the best printers from the trade show for instance the owners can print everything their own community custom designed with all the technology in it all at cost which is basically one 40th the price here paying for retail. And then the efficiency goes to cost of raw materials for everything this is what nobody that wants to sell it to you for more once you to do but this is what the technology is capable of now so decentralize. It's not a matter of it's going to take your job you won't have to have a job you can work at anything you wish especially using these creative technologies work on your body work on having parties work on advancing your diet and sharing the food with everyone there's a lot of things you can work on for fun and enjoyment please don't be programmed into you've got to work in a coal mine or be a boss of the newspaper like what ball coach needs to have retired in the boomtown please think a little outside of the box look at the advantage here!