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

​​@@Stylofo4m 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?

@@Stylofo4m 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

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.

Comment spot on 🐕

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.

Bostons robots are mostly impractical

A maioria dos robôs tem os exércitos dos governos por trás e não tem intenção civil. Eles são produzidos pra ir pra guerra. Drones decidiram a guerra da Armênia Afeganistão. Não sei qual é a atual relação da Boston Dinamics e as forças armadas dos Usa.

It is of course, spot is great for hard to reach places, dangerous surroundings etc. But this seems more of a management idea. :)

yeah add more stationary things in the walking path that will then also have to get checked by maintenance......... this is pretty practical. did you watch the video? multiple employees give reasons as to why its nice to have spot....

Only way spot would be useful is if the sensors in question are expensive. So you gain something from only needing a single set that walks around. But spot is also not cheap. So i kind of doubt that is the case. Could be wrong tho i dont know what sensors they use. But with limited info it do not pass the "this seems stupid" test.

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.

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.

​@Damien.D Not true, inbev regularly generates preventive maintenance work orders for flir observation of equipment for technicians. The same ones that review the data from these dogs and they do it far cheaper. This is just about bragging rights.

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)

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.

​@@Jessev741we have tools for that and what makes you think those lines operate at regular schedules?

Pretty bad engineer then. Think and do a little back of the envelope math before you speak.

@@whickervision742 I'm glad you have a different opinion. However, I will not write that you are a bad engineer (if you are an engineer at all). Besides, tell me what such robot can do besides takin pirometric photo or taking akustic data. I can understand that in old manufacturing lines you have to invest healthy portion of cash to do BMS and install sensors... Maybe it's cheaper for them to use robot... I do not know the situation of this plant but for me so far form over substance. I feel that you are a typical dude that has little experience and absorbs every new tech uncritically.

It's not all about what an engineer thinks is a good engineering solution. It's about what can be purchased and implemented to work with the idiosyncracies and biases of the people on the factory floor.

What practical background have you got, what factories have your worked at?

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.

You obviously can. But that doesn't allow boys to play with their toys.

The question is how many sensors you can install and wire up before it costs more than a spot. Wiring up a single motor with temperature sensors (one won't be enough), wire them up to a local controller, then wire that up for power and data can easily cost a thousand dollars when you include all the engineering and planning that goes in. When you have hundreds of motors and gearboxes that quickly adds up.

In the long run yes. 200 years ago beer was something not everyone could afford.

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.

You need to go to MIT, get clearance from DARPA (as in chosen) and be able to demonstrate you are in the top 0.000001% of people with the capacity to create new technologies from scratch. So basically no.

​@@fioredeutchmark I don't think that's necessarily true. At the end of the day, it is just people behind Boston Dynamics, in many many areas of expertise. Mechanical Engineering, Physical Robotics, Coding, etc with a ton of other auxiliary specialties such as Audio, Video, Music production, post production etc. If you have a goal and dream and the means, I don't see why you should prematurely rule yourself out

Keep an eye out for internships or intro-level positions and definitely apply. They hire for all sorts of roles and levels of expertise.

There is no standard wheeled robot. There are some development platforms, but nothing out-of-the-box like spot. Especially not at spot's pricepoint of a nice car.