My Tiny New Robot (KUKA KR125) 

alternate idea: mount it upside down on the ceiling, paint it white and attach a GladOS head to it. (very practical and useful project!)

Strap a MAG welder to it and turn it into a metal 3D printer

My suggestions, first see if you can program full range of movement at increasing speeds, second measure repeatability / accuracy at different loads across movement range, third and most important planar 3d printing! 😊

it would make an epic gaming or flight sim chair

Clay or concrete printer would be neat!

It's a huge 3d printer. Whatever the material concrete, mig weld, Brot Teig

Maybe make it a shop hand with switchable attachments for 3d-Printing, welding, maybe just a tray or a vice for material handling or positioning. Very nice orange beast! Consider safety for anyone working in reach ... i.e. position/touch-switches or similar.

Now you already have one arm of a giant metal friend :D

Das war jetzt überraschend, hab deinen Channel bisher nicht gekannt. Aber bei den Aufnahmen von der Autobahn, dachte ich mir, die kenn ich doch, bist eigentlich an mir vorbeigefahren am Anfang ;-). Klasse Video, jetzt werd ich mir erstmal die anderen von dir anschauen.

Attach a powerful laser and practice saying "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to DIE!"

what a great purchase. many men dream of it ;) thanks for sharing

Get in touch with Dave at Dave's Armoury to learn about robot control. There are industrial 3D printer slicers specifically for robots like this. But this robot would be useful as a production welder or auto-loader/-unloader for your large machines. Ooh, you could cosplay it as the arm of the semi-trapped djinn from the Magi manga/anime - everything but its head can leave the vessel.

How exciting! I love seeing how the Lignum channel uses his Kuka robots for CNC woodworking operations. As others have mentioned, my first thought was immediately some sort of nonplanar 3D printer. The sort of additive manufacturing you could do with it (if you can figure out the complex slicing), would be incredible. :)

The motherboards and hard drives used to fail on the KRC1 controllers. Image the hard drive if its still working and have a look for the original CD's that had the operating software and maintenace manuals on them. When shipped from KUKA they were in pocket inside they controller door.

"Du Ficker. Du machst en Video" "Nein!" *Dreht weiter ein Video #relationshipgoals

Ah a KUKA from when it was still German! An obvious application would be to build a multi-axis (>3) 3D printer, for prints with double curved surfaces and isotropic mechanical properties. Modifying a slicer for this purpose may be PhD level stuff though. Attaching a camera to the head also provides interesting opportunities for photogrammetry applications. Maybe it can even work like a 3D pantorouter, first scan an object, and than immediately print a copy. I can't say I have any experience with robotic arms, but in recent years, I've grown more and more interested in working with them. I may join your discord. Edit: Maybe it can also pass the butter?

make it pass the butter. NOTHING else

My boss bought a used KR150 from a automotive plant... Only time I saw it move was on a fork truck. I was designing a automated beadblasting system and was bummed with the machine failure.

Looks like fun ! If you need help with programming feel free to reach out ;-)

Made in '98 but looks state of the art to me!

giant lazer + ai targeting + outside your property = make your enemies tremble in fear!

Meine Lieblinsszene bei 2:50! Finde ich Super!

My only experience with KUKA robots is working in their integration shop in Michigan on the conveyors that I helped build and then again in the KUKA body shop at the jeep plant in Toledo Ohio. Most of the robots would have been similar to this one just the 2004/2005 versions. Only I was just watching them in awe as they were building cars and never got anywhere near the actual operation of them.

You should mount a laser pointer on it and set it up to follow people around when they enter the shop. No practical reason, but it will make them think the robot uprising is coming

Quite clean for 20+ years old robotic arm.

What precision does the robot have in repeated movement? While working on a bigger project for it use it as a really crazy flexible camera operator for your videos😁

The scratches near C5 isn't red, so at least it isn't from a human. That machine is a beast!

"It was built in 1989." Moment I became sure you were German. Congratulations on the KUKA. Any plans for it this year?

Es spielt keine Rolle für welche Anwendung, aber es muss auf einer beweglichen Unterlage montiert werden. Am einfachsten geht es mit einem Trolley auf Schienen.

Automatic coffe pot handler, there is no such thing as overkill. I have a friend who got a small robotarm kit from kickstarter, when it was built, he really had no use for it, but finally he placed it besides the TV to flick the switch on the HDMI selector for his game consoles, so he does that with an app on his phone now...

nice, ive waited for this since seeing your insta post ;)

My Prototrak milling machine from 1996 is just as capable as our new Haas milling machine. Faster actually to program conversationally than the Haas, but much slower speeds and feeds. It also has the 3.5" floppy disk. It’s super easy to convert those to a usb floppy disk emulator. I did mine with one I got on eBay.

Maybe reach out to Jeremy Fielding as well who built an arm from scratch? He mentioned in a recent video that he wants to look into other control software etc.

maybe you could do one of those wall paiting printers? or you could teach it to write on a keyboard with voice recognition software, for when you are feeling lazy

I have worked with a krc1 kr125 from 1995 There is a vga connector on the video car in the pc Backup the hard drive they are old and can give really wird errors

Einen Roboter mit halbwegs aktueller KRC4 Steuerung hätte wahrscheinlich nicht mehr gekostet. Grüße aus Augsburg.

Nice! Is it doing anything ? A robot update would be cool ;D

Make it a librarian to sort stuff in storage

I'm on the same adventure. I got an Old KR150 last month. (same robot little higher payload) Also KR C1 (windows 95) controller. I want to convert it to a milling machine, but most CAM software for robots is to expensive.

Nice project would be teal 3dprinting or put a spindle on an make it a milling machine for Woodcarving. Partloader for a milling machine would be boring.

attach a race car seat to the arm, instant carnival ride

We have to Fanuc robots the same size and a little mottoman we picked up at auction paid less than $2000cad for all 3 robots (granted all over 20 years old) but yeah they are cool. Been playing with the Fanucs hoping to get them working for 6 axis milling with a router on it

5D cnc mill for foams or MDF forms for molds.

It would be really cool if you made a robot that could do steel smithing

I’d get a meltio for this thing to make stupid big metal parts.

Do you burn wood for heating? If so come up with come up with imaging system to locate a Block of wood and have it stoking a outside wood boiler

Dude, this is awesome!

I couldn't refuse an offer to have a real robot to experiment with either. Hope you have fun.

Ich arbeite sehr viel mit KUKA Robotern und hatte die KRC1 Generation auch schon öfter mal in den Fingern. Falls du mal Hilfe brauchst, gib Bescheid. Vielleicht kann ich dir weiter helfen.

Kuka has a cnc software package that you can buy if it works for the krc 1 I don't know. Never seen it never used it just know about it. Although the mostly used and latest now is the "krc4" models. I have worked on the krc1's and 2's but experience is limited with them. Have done alot of krc4's. Everything you received "should" be plug and play. All plugs etc are keyed so you can't break anything unless the previous owners themselves changed something. You can get in contact if you are in need of some documentation. I have alot that I believe will really help you if you've never used one before

What's some of your favorite site to look for used machinery?

Now you just need to figure out how to shunt the emergency circuit

Necessary? In terms of paiload or reach mabe a bit big?

Nah! Extra points if you manage control it with an arduino

My idea : buy more 50 robots and start your own automotive company

Tending the big Maho!

Ok if the horse mask is out how about a pig mask

Why not make it play pool? The youtube channel stuff made here made a project about an automatic pool stick (don't know the english word for it) but he had to hold it himself, instead you could mount it to the robot and play with remote people with it ^^

Hmmmm, not a Norwegian that came up with the name KUKA

You have to attach a chair onto the head and Run a rollercoaster VR-Simulation!

Make a concrete printer from this.

Ein Träumchen 😂

cAN YOU GIVE US AN IDEA ON THE PRICE OF THIS 23 YEARS OLD kUKA?

wie viel hast du eigentlich im lotto gewonnen? xD

я мечтаю о таком роботе ...у меня столярный цех ...сколько стоит этот робот...

ich hab auch noch einen rumstehen :D bring dich nicht um wenn was wissen musst hab ich vll ne Antwort aber bis den in betrieb hast wirst ein wenig verzweifeln.

Mig Welding printer

Unfortunately the link is dead! I revived my old discord account and the invite does not work anymore.... Sad Story!

i would take the motors do something useful