Spot at AB InBev Belgium | Boston Dynamics 

I am not sure about the comparison/advantage of having a robot check each motor and device on a flexible schedule, versus each having its own temperature sensor and perhaps sound/vibration sensor to quickly detect and notify anomalies. Sensors can be made cheap and can link to a database for continuous analysis or interrupts.

But it kinda seems like it would be very expensive and/or logistically complex to set up such a database and retrofit every bearing, gearbox, and every other piece of equipment with its own individual sensor when you can just have a mobile sensor that you can update adjust and retrofit all contained in one package

@@dactorwatson4313 for old plant, yes, but for newer ones, temperature, pressure, rotary sensors are basically standard everywhere, and with a bus system, all can be transmit to the PLC then to the cloud. Make sense for existing plant without those things.

​@@ernahubbard2062 the bus system still gets very complex with increasing number of sensors. Increased complexity leads to more errors. So having a mobile device that does not increase the complexity of the system can help a lot.

You've got to mirror the sensors at least, for reliability. As re vibration, you've got to analyze the pattern. All this doesn't come cheap. Even after that, you have to have regular human inspections (per regulations), so it's not the silver bullet.

I am going to respectfully disagree. Music while narration is going on is very distracting. Not wanted.

I agree. It's soothing.

@@bikeny Each to their own, I suppose. When I produced monthly company updates for a client, with three minutes of just talking heads and no music (as per the brief), the videos were interminably boring. Non-professional speakers need something behind them to bring a bit of life to a video.

More like Sleep mode

It’s not a robot- it’s our dog, our colleague! Love it

And it's got its own little computer so it can game after work. 😊

The cutest thing I ever seen in Spot's videos

This is how a person with instruments can walk. why is SPOT there?

nothing in the future will be a treat

​@@ba_charleswhy?

Didn't you mean threat instead?

Because its an ad!

😅@@MrHauerManuel

​​@@StellarSurge the issue with putting sensors everywhere is that you've now added an insane number of points of failure that can be hard to detect. with Spot you've only got one thing to keep an eye on and that thing has the built-in ability to tell you that it's failing. furthermore, because the sensors on Spot are shared across all measurements, technicians reviewing them will have a far greater chance of noticing something is wrong if ALL of the readings look off. furthermore, if you don't think a factory is a dynamic environment, you don't know much about factories.

Tell it like it is without all the chicken shiet candy coating.. it’s not a “great” use. 😅

​@@underdwellerwhat if Spot fails? Who is going to spot fot Spot? 2 Spots?

@@StellarSurge It is already used by police to enter houses or sites where it is unsafe for police to enter. Spot can then scout and detect poeple by using its thermal camera. They can do lab raids way safer with spot for example.

Like anything else, if Spot fails, you fix it.

One day a Boston dynamics robots will refuse to open the pod doors for Dave in order to not jeopardize the mission.

@@tomy34188 America bad China good.

@@tomy34188idk what exactly your reference ING but I thought of wall-e Lol

Not promoting alcohol consumption, it's litterally a deadly poison according to science

Boston Robotics, like most tech we use today.. is originally funded by American Darpa... not Belgium.. this includes your keyboard, operating systems, and the very web itself... heh

@@dertythegrower I think that the 'Well done Belgium' refers to the practical use they have for Spot. Also fun fact: A Belgian (Robert Cailliau) was in fact one of the co-creators of the world wide web :)

@@dertythegrower Ah right, I forgot. Americans always have a tendency to claim things as their own invention. The World Wide Web wasn't invented by DARPA. It was invented by Tim Berners-Lee, an Englishman working at CERN. He also invented HTTP, HTML and the URL system. You might claim that his invention would be nothing without DARPA's network, but then again, DARPA's network would be nothing without the earlier English NPL network's inventions.

@@dertythegrower America bad China good.

Comment spot on 🐕

There is no one do to this job. It's automated preventive maintenance. Checking for simple problems that may cascade in a complete failure. No one do this work as a full time job. Spot does it by just walking around.

🤣🤣🤣 That's what they said about computers! Pure FUD!

You’re not wrong 😂

Despite widespread availability of fleshlights ppl still buy prostitutes.

But who monitors the monitors?

easier to just send out a centralized piece of equipment to do this type of monitoring, attaching sensors would just loop back around to the exactly same problem again of having too many things to check at once for the people working there

You would need thousands of the same cameras and sensors for every single instance you want to monitor instead of one multipurpose autonomous robot.

What about the added complexity with associated points of failure? The monitor itself can fail or give erroneous readings. Spot can check an unlimited number of components or even perform a thermal check on entire systems as well as “listen” for unusual noise. Once a baseline is established variations large or small can be detected.

I've visited the Stella brewery once. It's *huge*. I think it's even the biggest brewery in Belgium. Good thermal cameras and those kinds of sound sensors can also be quite expensive, so if you install them in fixed places and want to monitor the entire factory you'd need hundreds of them. Getting just one of each sensor and installing them on a robot that does regular patrols is the cheaper option. Especially since programming patrol routes is a relatively fast and simple process that can happen just fine while all machines are running. If you install stationary sensors then someone also has to install all those sensors, and run the required cabling to them, and hiring people for that is expensive. And since beer is a product intended for human consumption any production lines near where such works are happening likely have to temporarily shut down during those works for hygiene and safety reasons, which is *very* expensive.

Yes. Learn to spell

@@ButterflyMatt you must be fun at parties

Guess.

BD robots are way too cool to work in factories ^^" (I want to play ping pong with Atlas)

Да но датчики же не на каждом сантиметре. Допустим у тебя есть датчик давления и температур, но что если где то прохудилась трубка, и это ещё не дало о себе знать, Спот поможет найти проблему до того как это остановит производство

@@SplittingOfPrides если где-то трубка прохудилась сработают уже установленные датчики. а чтобы не допускать такого неожиданного прохудения трубок есть регламентные работы при которых происходит замена отработавших узлов и деталей. так что эта собака в данном случае не уместна

It's usually to prevent collisions by and with forklifts. I'm sure if you look close enough, you might see a wild forklift hiding in the shadows.

It's indeed to announce Spot's presence. The same blue lights are mounted on forklifts and other manutention machines inside warehouses.

Of cause he can. So pay him 80 000 $ every year (total expenses of a worker), and you need at least four of them to do shifts and illness/vacation/weekends. So better buy one Spot for 75 000 $ once.

We'll pay you $100/mo. Ready?

​@@Delibro Who pays for the 4 out of work humans?

@@Reprint001 This factory would pay them or don't hire them and thus have higher maintenance expenses.

@@Reprint001The same guy who pays for the workers who got replaced by that conveyor belt. The only reason YOU can afford most products is that we no longer have to pay hordes of people to make them. Just imagine how much, for example, a car would cost if you had to pay for the tens of thousands of manhours that would be needed to make them without machines.

English dude.. do you speak it?

Do you have thermal vision and ultrasonic hearing? Can you perform the same repetitive task exactly the same way every time, perfectly on schedule? Engineers program the robots, relax

Exactly my question. Just buy some cheap Russians.

3 legs instead? What are you trying to say? Sure, a room is really flat, but factories have multiple buildings that are not all at the same elevation. A wheeled robot will get stranded when trying to go from room to room.

A two legged robot uses more of its capabilities for balancing that could instead be used for other things.