Could You Take A Punch From an Industrial Robot? # 094 

Flavun, hold my monster...And that's how I got flailchest

Grand Rising Family...... What an AWESOME moment Jeremy.... All The Best Family.....YES

You have an awesome channel with just you in the videos alone. The fact that you involve your family makes your channel as a standard to be at for all other channels, in my opinion.

ROFL! "We broke Joe!" "T h e r e w e g o! P u n c h i n t h e f a c e!" This slew me!

what software are you using to controll the robot?

As a side effect they will have indirety learned some ethics and capabilities of automation.

100% agreed! Imagine how much better a place the world would be if every father was as engaged and inspiriting to his children!

Definitely... I've got a 1 year old daughter and can't wait to start introducing her to computers and robotics. You can't "Engineer Dad" any harder than Jeremy. So much love between him and his kids.

Seriously, when he talked about having his son see his failure my heart melted. Such a role model!

i wish i was raised this way instead of being called destructivee because i took things apart, might have gotten my engineering degree before the age of 27 >.>

@@Fleato You're never too late to get a degree! Congrats on the engineering paper dude

@@tonyhinderman not too late. Just a bit rough being almost 30 and now starting to learn this stuff.

He could rent it out by the hour. There are so many uses in the workplace.

That thing should be in the ring on a skateboard

Battle bots?

@@ramixnudles7958 Doesn’t look very precise. It is wobbling a whole lot. Impressive project, no doubt.

@@antman7673 It just needs a little guidance. Maybe a facial recognition module. Scan the faces of managers, bosses, troublesome co-workers into it, and set it up in a main hallway. :-)

I don't think that could have been better said Daniel

as for taking the punch, I'm gonna wager it depends a bit where you take it, and how you're stood up while taking it. While the fist isn't swinging super fast, it's not gonna just stop when it hits you. the "conk on the head" swing could easily break your neck I suspect, as your body doesn't have much room to get out of the way in the vertical axis, and thus the full force goes straight into your spine. Most of the other swings are likely survivable with varying injuries unless you're deliberately restrained such that the robot pushes right through you.

As an industrial controls engineer who integrates robotics, one of the key differences in safety considerations is the moral responsibility for the risk and the reward. Safety is different when you're on an adventure into the sunset or working on a project in your own garage as compared to selling your time for a few dollars an hour so that someone else can make money. In the latter case, acceptable risk levels are orders of magnitude lower than risks you undertake on tasks of your own volition. Side note: robots aren't as fast as a boxer, but they are more rigid and heavier. A watermelon is a great demonstrator of how a robot can move to a point and not even notice a squishy human in the way....

I actually got myself almost killed by an industrial robot arm once. We had healthy respect, but no clue, since it was a robotic course at university, and my colleague and I were in the room on our own. We were programming it for the first time ever and the documentation of the programming interface came directly from the 80th programmer hell. Since we couldn't figure out what various functions actually did, we decided to be VERY careful and have it move a single step in one axis only for starters. We eagerly started our program and ... nothing happened. We tried a few times more, assuming that maybe a single step was too minute to see, we tried moving some more steps ... nothing. So, we figured, we needed to know what's going on and I decided to put my ear besides the motor while running the program to listen whether it would make any noise. My colleague was hovering his hand right above the emergency shutoff button, ready to punch it. So we started the program and out of nowhere the arm fully extended itself, moving all of its axis at once, in a split second, a few centimeters left of my head. Had my head been in the way, this thing would have smashed it. The robot arm was only slightly smaller than the one in this video. We were in shock. There wasn't enough time to react to push the emergency power off before everything was over. Some servos actually broke themselves in the process, because of the fast movement of all of them at once (I don't know if they physically broke, or just reached some safety position, where they couldn't back out on their own again). Compared to the punches in the video, that thing had moved at easily ten times the speed. Turns out: our code was 100% correct, but our interpretation of which of the four transmission modes of the archaic proprietary parallel interface to use was wrong. We essentially had send digital garbage to the robot on all attempts, including the last one. For some reason all of the previous ones didn't make any sense to the robot, so he would essentially not do anything, whereas the last one apparently accidentally created a command sequence which created a path he could follow (albeight disabling himself in the process). So, healthy respect is always warranted, even if you think you are doing only minute changes, unless you truely have a full and perfect understanding of the situation. And even then cosmic radiation could be messing up that one crucial command. 😉

Honestly impressed the silicone worked to cast aluminum! Is this a special kind of 2 part silicone that can withstand that heat?

@@JordanV It was bismuth, not aluminum.

@@johnabruce ohhhhhh. Didn't realize that. Thanks. Didn't know bismuth had that low of a melting point honestly, but I've never worked with it before.

Yes, and kinds need to be empowered in learning rather than being given an I can't do this mindset. The everyone must graduate despite qualification because feelings model is critically flawed much like modern reasoning.

thank you!

Absolutely… and thank you.

And the Hacksmith Power Loader, once it gets AI.