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

When my teenage daughter got her camera out... I knew I had won them over! The goal was simply to have fun and create memories. Thank you for sharing in that with me... and thank you KiwiCo for making these kinds of projects possible. Check out www.kiwico.com/Fielding50 for 50% off your first month of any crate!

Nothing says bonding with the family much like robot arm violence. Great video!

These children are blessed. Ready for the future. I want to engage my kids the same way. 🙏🏾🙏🏾.. subbed.

Jeremy Fielding: Builds highly-advanced 7-axis industrial robot. Also Jeremy Fielding: Uses it to punch dummies. 😂

The best part of the video is the family enjoying this organized chaos. Love it.

Jeremy is giving us engineering lessons as well as dad lessons... 👍🏾

This is great! Thanks for sharing this!

Healthy respect the way to go, fear cripples learning. You have a great approach to encourage your children we need more educators like you.

This video proves why this is one of the best engineering channels.

This video was so wholesome, it actually bought a tear to my eye. Not only do you motivate me to get back to my learning, but you're also making me want to be a better person. Great content.

I had a lot of respect for you as an engineer and teacher but now I have gained a hole new respect for as an awesome father.

"When I mess up is when I learn the most". Absolutely! The best take away from this video! I wish more people understood this.

Soon after this video started, I thought "If a person is standing there, it's going to be a bad accident". This is a valuable lesson about safety.

What I see (in its exteriority, at least) in this video represents my ideal of what I have (unsuccessfully) hoped could be my family life. I wish you perpetual happiness, Fielding family.

I love that you are able to do this with your family. Looks like you are truly living the dream! Love your video's, have recommended you to many people because your knowledge is top tier.

honestly, the fact that you want your kids involved in this kind of stuff, and the fact that they obviously want to be involved themselves, is absolutely awesome. The mark of a good teacher, and an even better father, sir.

man you are a great dad!

One more thing. The most difficult thing I have had to do in life is to learn how to learn. This is why I can relate to you.

THIS is how people learn to be safe around machines, and get a positive attitude about safety. Fun examples of people who know the field, not a desk jockey. Kudos to you, dad. 👊

I like how Jeremy intentionally messed up the first punch to fake out his kids and show them things don’t always work as planned. Jeremy: You’re the greatest.

The best part of this video is watching you interact with your kids and how much fun you're all having with this. Thank you for sharing this moment. It's obvious that you have many such moments with them off the camera. I feel better having seen that.

My daughter and I had a great time watching this. Thanks, Jeremy.

What an awesome family you have! They’re lucky to have such a great father.

I can honestly say that I learned so much by watching my Dad not only fail but hoplessly screwing stuff up repeatedly. He liked woodworking and so do I. He was a very proud man but in this case, with his 5 thru 11yo son, he was very generous. He not only admitted to the failures, but took the time to explain what went wrong. He routinely cut rhombus parts to what were supposed to be square cabinet doors. Getting the inside and outside measurenents mixed up often. Subsequently, it's a mistake I don't make. That's just one example of how well watching someone fail is valuable. Almost to the point of, is it really a failure if it teaches so well? When my Dad was home and in the shop, if he turned, he hit me in the forehead with his elbow. I watched EVERYTHING he did. And as was age appropriate, helped.

I absolutely love watching you showing the kids all this stuff! I just know that years from now, those kids will all be telling stories about their crazy father and how much fun they had with him and his inventions. You are creating great memories and that is worth the price of admission. I also really like how YOU are having as much if not more fun than any of the kids. This is great stuff, and it's wonderful to see how much you are all enjoying what you are doing. A BIG thumbs up to you and the kids. BTW, they sure have grown up a lot since the kid powered electricity producing machine episode.

Great video! Every single safety manager who works in a plant with potential human-robotic interface should show this video in all safety training sessions. This video deserves 10M++ views.

I really respect that your willing to not have the camera on all the time when your family is in the shop. I’m sure not all youtubers would do the same. Making sure the shop is fun and safe for them should come first

What a great Dad. Get involved with the family and teach them skills to be successful in Life and have fun!

Just can't stop smiling when you bring your beautiful family into the shop with you, you're a great guy Jeremy.

This is the most wholesome engineering channel on youtube

Hundreds of hours to build that robot arm, just for a few moments of laughter. Time well spent lol

I do a lot of industrial electrical safety training, the first thing I teach is, if you're afraid of it, get away from it. RESPECT the electricity, UNDERSTAND, and CONTROL it. Being afraid only brings mistakes and injury. You got it right man.

Jeremy, I don't care what you are doing in your shop as long as you and your kids keep laughing together like this!!! Everything else is good, THIS is FABULOUS!!!!!

I really like that your kids are involved AND that you balance respect (not fear) with learning.

Great video Jeremy. You’re an excellent father to your children and I’m sure they will grow to be first class engineers and citizens.

The Fielding bot is the only hope we have to defeat Elon's robot army.

What a great best dad moment to capture. You sir are a hero.

Nominating you for Father of the Year... this is so fun! Your kids grow so much by involving them in the fun things you do.

Seriously ure mentanility is one of the best , i really like how u spend ure time with ure family away from the youtube and how u try to give life lessons to ure children, u really have my respect 👮‍♂️

The best part of this video was watching a family have fun together! That was a blast.

Dude.. seriously, you are an inspiration.. I won't get too long winded.. but wow, man.. I've been watching you for a couple of years now.. and you are just a seriously impressive man. Like, not that you just know how to do a good video, but your personality, values, attitude, enthusiasm to educate.. just downright impressive..

I think everything you do with your kids in the shop is great, especially the failures and the safety, but also the successes. Sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed on the first try, but you never stop learning! And I love that you don't always film everything, even if it winds up being something really cool (like skipping teeth on a belt) - it allows your family to know that the shop is a safe place to be themselves and to be a family. The only thing I might wanna add is maybe y'all shoulda worn safety glasses during the punching. Not that they were necessary, but it's just one of those things you get in the habit of doing.

youre my inspiration in my trade as a stationary engineer. I study your videos intensely to make me better at what i do at work. thank you for such great and educational content my friend.

Another option to get the silicone out is, keep the bottom on, then squeeze the tip from your shop compressor down the side and pop it out with compressed air

New father of a 4 month old baby. Mech Engr as a career/hobby. Completely distracted from the video of then robot because I was distracted from seeing your 4 kids!! How do you do it?!? Great video, your an Inspiration to me see you find time to grow/invest your time as an engineer and be a committed/loving father. Thank you for your work.

Not only do you deserve accolades for ingenuity and intellect, but I'd vote you for Family Man of the Year too.

I first found your channel through Destin, probably like a lot of others, and I have to say this video has blown me away. I'm truly impressed by model you try to give to your family. Plus, you have a great way of explaining things. Thanks.

You are an incredible engineer, and seemingly, an even better father.

This is awesome on every level. Fun, family, sharing, learning.

You sir are a mad scientist in the best sense. Just beautiful man! Seeing you with the kids is just awesome! Getting young people involved in creative engineering and making is just great. I can't wait to see what you cook up next! Big ups from Upstate New York ❤️💛💚

While ur away it builds itself Legs gets up and terrorizes the neighborhood 11:30 out of context

Great to see the whole family involved!

It’s good to teach your kids not to be afraid of stuff like this. If you’re afraid of something you will never fully be able to utilize it to its ultimate potential. Safety always dances a fine line in these areas. You shouldn’t be afraid, but you should definitely respect the power that machines, tools and systems can have

The true nugget of this video is at 3:20 having your children experience your mistakes. We tend to learn far more from our mistakes than our successes.

You are ‘RIGHT ON TRACK’ with your kids! It’s not only engineers who profit greatly from having an early understanding of tools and mechanical processes. I’ll bet your kids know how to use a tape measure!! Respect!!!

Jeremy, you earned my subscription years ago. Your videos were cool then, and amazing now. You took the words right out of my mouth when talking about having your son work alongside you... Your so-called failures are learning events for him. He's getting lifelong memories that he'll treasure, and hopefully pass onto your grandchildren, who might also learn from him and be by your side in the workshop too. Totally awesome fathering.

Awesome family! I really appreciate your approach to safety - a healthy respect for machinery, but not a fear of machinery.

Even beyond the engineering, machining, you name it, you're a very smart man to recognize the value of failure. I know that was kinda a minor moment but that line about learning best from failure just really struck a cord. Beyond that though, this was a fun experiment. I'm imagining a setup where you set it up to tenderize meat for some reason.

The bane of every cool video: the safety police. Anything that is fun or exciting usually has an element of risk to it.

- Fun and teaching moments with my kids are some of my fondest memories. You Sir, are a good Dad!

Dude, I think I just witnessed some top shelf next level robot home security family fun meaning of life stuff! Much respect.

This was an awesome project! I had no idea you had so many kids tho, I see you don’t spend *all* your time in the shop bro! 😉👌🏾 I love seeing black fatherhood on display! 💪🏾😂

"I have no idea what I'm doing!" Best words used while melting bismuth, 😂👍

Thank you Jeremy for not kowtowing to the self appointed safety police. It is a great thing you are teaching your kids how to do dangerous things safely. As I always tell my kids about tools….If it isn’t dangerous it is probably not useful.

this project wins on so many levels. top work!

Just cause you respect a tool doesn't mean you cant have fun or find unintended uses that are exceptionally useful.

OH man... my face hasn't hurt this much from smiling in a very long time

That’s definitely a reasonable testing scenario - cool :D I will try this with my robot arm in small as well when it’s finished

Jeremy I just wanted to take the time out of my morning coffee routine to let you know I personally find your content inspiring and very VERY knowledgeable, your content assures some of us that we are not crazy and that each of us has the ability for greatness.... I can say for sure that we both share a passion for technology and as I start shifting my procrastinations and hype focus into a more useful energy I realize that the hardest things in life will be some of the most powerful learning tools moving forward, perseverance and determination always returns positive results its just a matter of perspective!!! your skillsets are going to propel you into your destiny!!! keep up the amazing work and know some of us are sponging in the know how :) sincerely - The Over Thinker p.s. Boston Dynamics lookout here comes the Jeremy's!!!!!

We all have a lot to learn about robots. While it was certainly a lot of fun it was also very educational as well. Staying safe around robots is something we are all going to need to know. Great video!

The slowed down audio sounds like something out of a horror movie flashback

"I want to teach my kids to have a healthy respect for any tool...I don't want to be afraid of the tool because that's the wrong approach." What you said, I don't think anyone's ever said better. The goal is definitely not to make your kids afraid of the robot or tools, but to understand its capabilities! Fear is the wrong way of doing things. I think your method for teaching this was very effective because it was a fun and memorable experience while also showing them how strong that machine actually is. As they said, give it space and it's fine. I also love how you want your kids to see you fail. I think that's a wonderful way to teach them how to experiment to achieve results.

Dad of the year i love your content thanks for all you do.

Looks like the arm is running great! And a fun little debut for it as well. One bit of advice for casting molds like that, use a cut pipe taped together or tape up some plastic sheet into a tube. When the mold dries, you just pull off the tape and split/unroll the outside.

Your family is so blessed to have you. Keep teaching them! Thank you for sharing these moments with us.

I'm always a little jealous when I see people being good fathers, I never had that. Keep up the good work Jeremy!

It's nice to see a family having fun together and learning something at the same time.

One of my favorite family friendly engineering channels on youtube!! I love it keep up the great work!

BTW, on skipping teeth, about 15 years ago I was working our first conveyer system that used an AC Induction Motor and a AC Freq Drive (we normally used servos) and my boss wanted to know how fast could I program the belt acceleration to. We did not break the teeth off the belt but the noise was pretty notable. Another even bigger event was when we were running a pusher belt with a 3hp AC Servo. Things looked good but then there was a large discontinuity in encoder reading and the servo loop interpreted as near infinite negative error which resulted in the motor instantly reversing at full power - than quickly disabling because of the Max DAC condition. We were just driving the pusher belts so very little mass so I don't think any teeth skipped but It was pretty violent and I am glad the belts weren't damaged because they are custom metal core belts.

Also I would say you are one of my favorite youtube channels. I don't think we desire to build much that overlaps but you have such a engineering mindset without being an engineer which I find educational. I learn a lot by your attitude and your methods.

This is parenting done right. Hats off to you sir.

Great video. My kids are now 20 to 42 years old. I wish I had spent more time getting them interested in technical stuff.

As someone who learns best from mistakes, I think it's a great idea to deliberately involve you son in things where you expect to fail. But, a more important lesson in that is to say that you don't make progress unless you experiment and expect failure. A lot of people are too afraid to even attempt something, because they think they'll screw up.

That was so much fun, educational as well

lovely children. you people are amazing. with love from Belgium 🇧🇪

you're my dad hero. great work, having fun with the kids and getting them excited about STEM.

I like the way his daughter thinks! I had that exact same idea, a downward hit, as soon as I saw the robotics!

I really hope you read this, becouse there is a much simpler way to get out a silicone mold. take a compressor and spray air around the side, and it will slide right out.

Them kids are greatest builds you have shared on this channel. Now that's Engineering! Peace!

A dad who wants to show his kids that he fails! It's not counterintuitive at all Jeremy. It's awesome! Kids often think if it isn't done right the first time then it's a failure to be ashamed of. Hence they become afraid to try or they give up quickly. But you're teaching that at that very moment, that's when you learn.

One teaching tool would be to print another of the mounting plates that broke, and have your kids work out how much work it takes to break that in a similar way. Likewise if the 'bones' of 'Joe' were pvc pipes, if any of them are broken (beyond pushed together pipe fittings being separated) have them see if they can work out how much it takes to do similar damage. If you want to do a follow-up, see if you can get some sort of impact sensors as is used in crash testing, and see if you can capture data about the impact that the arm is imparting. It may also be handy to review episodes of Myth Busters with Buster wired up for doing some of their tests. I believe they related some of the statistics on impact and such as it relates to they type of damage it can impart.

Your kids are incredibly lucky to have a father like you ! Keep going the great work !

Good job Jeremy, on both the engineering and the dad-ing!

good bonding time with the kids... they were having fun based on the smiles.

this brought a big smile to my face. well done!

"WE BROKE JOE!" XD

what a fantastic family memory. This is great

You do a great job with the engineering, RU-vid-ing, and family time. Good stuff, sir!

You're a good engineer, but a great father and role model.

The most wholesome thing I've ever watched