When a robot has its own will. 

They missed a prime opportunity to record the first ever "robot pulls chair from underneath human" gag

My guy got some grip strength.

Safety engineer is sweating profusely

That throw into the wings is so satisfying

I can’t even imagine the insurance paperwork. “You’re gonna use the robot for WHAT?!”

Aperture Science thanks you for testing the new Chair.

Oh man, they missed a classic gag, when he is out of site in the wings, replace him with a dummy dressed in the same clothes and catapult the dummy to the other side, where the man reappears all disheveled.

Me and the bois: ok guys, I know what we're doing for talent night. We just need a multi million dollar robot

All fun and games till it turns you upside down and slams you into the concrete

I love this routine, but it's crazy scary. That machine could rip the guy in half. Burning trapeze artists and chainsaw jugglers step aside, we have a new daredevil in town.

What a joy. I love the clowning and personification of the robot arm. I would have jumped at the chance to act in that. So good! Bravo.

I like to imagine the robot arm as the guys roommate, and they're always having disagreements about what to watch on the TV so the robot just throws the guy out of the seat, so it can watch whatever it wants.

I think choosing someone with long hair was genius! it really shows the motion and the flow of the person. I don't know if it's on purpose but it just works 😂☑️

Can we all appreciate this smooth af landing at 2:30 ?? That was glorious !

The robot will look back to this moment with nostalgia. "Remember, the fun we had with these little creatures?"

Aperature Science: "We do what we must, because we can".

Not gonna lie if they turned this into a amusement park ride, I would be on it all day long!

I’ve seen these robots before. They’re capable of bending sheet metal like paper, grasping and carrying hundreds of pounds of material from one point to another so fast your eyes can barely track them, and holding that material perfectly still while other tools and robots bend, weld, and shape it. And this man is using it to throw him around in a chair.

We truly live in a cyberpunk reality.

This is the kind of video your co-worker would try to get you to watch

This is SUPER impressive. Well done.

I’ve programmed these before. And I was actually terrified this entire video

This is gonna be one of the videos that is recommended in 10 years

One great little touch would be to add a quick shake at the very end, to imply it dumping you out backstage. Then have the arm wave to the audience. An excellent performance all around!

I used to work for a major cell phone manufacturer. We got one of these 6-axis robot arms for loading phones into test assemblies. When the Siemens engineers were done calibrating it they turned it over to the factory techops guys for programming it to load phones and left. The first thing we did was to take all the safety shields off of it's cage and then have it throw phones across the factory (probably a good 150ft) to another engineer holding a trash bin. It was glorious and terrifying at the same time because the thing could rotate at 35mph and kill you in the blink of an eye. It was probably 1/4 the size of the one he's using here.

Not a lot of people know that Skynet started out in stand-up comedy.

"Yes, we always strap the coders into the chair for their first interation." "Wow, that company sure goes through coders fast!"

"I need an old priest and a young priest!"

One of the best ads ever. Hats of showing quality as it is.

Don’t worry, no chairs were harmed in the making of this video

See you in 6 years, when this goes viral

This is the most dangerous thing I've seen all day

Thank you for the healthy laughters! Dedicated this on FB to a guy with stage IV cancer, on LinkedIn to a guy fighting ageism and on Twitter to all needing a bright smile to top their day!

I´m actually impressed how strong this guy is - also all those quick and sudden movements could be painfull for spine (after all, those things are incredibly strong and it doesn´t even seemed the sudden movement was dampened).

I'm more impressed by the durability of the chair.

It's truly amazing how humans can make anything into some form of entertainment. Especially in our age of technology. Really good performance. Loved it

I used to work on ABB robots. There were steel cages around them for a reason. When the program or motor axis crashed and you tried to recover the robot anything was possible within its range of motion. Seen one smash the safety cage and some of the electrical conduit. We rerouted the electrical but left the damaged pieces in place to show new employees why you never get in the cage with the bot.

Someone who works at NASA's mom: "this darn thing doesn't recline anymore, would you take a look at it for me, dear?" Them: "Say no more."

i like the idea that the robot thinks they are playing a fun game, trying to get him to sit down again so that it can throw him off

This seems like a 1980's video with a giant robot 🤣

it looks dangerous you know that thing can crush you witout even noticing that it is crushing you

This is the most dangerous shit ever. This Guy loses his grip and he gets crushed by the arm in no time.

It's kind of terrifying how strong that thing is. It would clearly not even notice something in the way, like a human skull or something.

Man Apple really stepped up with their presentations

The man piloting the arm had a lot of fun

To put the OSHA Comments into perspective; this did start a bit of a controversy because it was a grey area of which ruleset to follow. The theatre classed it as stage machinery and followed said safety ruleset. The governing agency judged that the robot should fall under the same safety routines as if it was used in industry, making physical interaction with it impossible and thus putting an stop to the act. This was appealed in court, which judged the theatres safety procedures to be adequate and thus overruled the "OSHA" ruling. Edit: I should mention that if you go to the first link in the description you have the complete one hour long act, with more robot shenanigans ;)

That's a well built chair

I've been on one of those in a theme park. It's quite a fun ride once you add a VR headset and 5-point harness.

that's a strong chair and person

I've always wanted to build my own rollercoaster simulator using one of these things only thing is... they're sooo dangerous... I used to work with them, the full sized ones... anyone who says they don't make mistakes just hasn't worked around them long enough... one day while running the production line, I heard a huge crash and the error klaxon buzzing, I turned around to see my big yellow robot buddy had got his head stuck in some steel supports... no Idea how it happened, it was programmed to lift out and then turn... instead it decided to turn as it was lifting out and crashed big time, breaking a piece of welded box section and its accompanying 45 degree support, straight off the backplate of the robot head, then finally came to rest with the backplate wedged up against the support structure... I took manual control to pull the head out and take it back to maintenance position, fortunately we had some spare parts as it had completely torn off one side of the gripper head, and those were not weak parts, they were German made heavy duty industrial parts I worked there for several years, the robot must have completed at least a million cycles during my time running the production line, and this happened only once on one robot... I was running two robots, two clay mixers, an extruder, a pneumatic cutter, a rotating hydraulic press, a storage gripper, a stacking gripper, a hydraulic loading car, a dryer, an engobe effect waterfall coating station, a carousel, about 15 different transfer belts and a kiln... all by myself for the most part... I was 1 of 1 people in that factory that could run that production line as it was supposed to be run (and very underpaid now that I look back) anyway my point is, out of all that equipment, the robots were actually incredibly reliable... it was a one in several million chance that they would go wrong... but with their speed, manoeuvrability, strength and reach... I definitely wouldn't like to be near one when they do! they are also capable of throwing things outside of safety zones which is much more likely, incorrectly aligned products would sometimes be pelted at the safety fence and large pieces of dry clay would often make it over the fence

the laughing children is the best part

That chair was paid actor XD

"It has just a couple bugs." The bugs:

I wanted MORE! This is amazing!

When didn't make it to the olympic games but your Boston Dynamics interview went well...

I can see that this video is going to randomly explode even more than it already has some time in the future.

Looks like a roller coaster to me.

the gentle placement off into the wings at the end cracks me up every time.

A show of comedy, strength and technology. Best thing ever.

One expensive arm 👀 that looks really fun. Good job

As amazing as the robot is, that chair is indestructible.

This is a dangerous piece of industrial equipment that can easily kill someone with a knock to the head or by crushing them.

I may have just witnessed the greatest promotional video ever.

Working with robots for car factories, I very love your show. Very funny and impressive acrobatic performance from you. Love it. It looks like an ABB irb 6700 isn't it ?

Bro I can't even look at a robotic arm without our thinking of that one art piece.

Don't worry the man always had a dream to go to space. The robot was just giving him some astronaut training.

Just perfect 🖒

This feels like an act for America’s got Talent

Of course this is in Sweden! My country ain't that innovative 😊 Great ad for the theater, the company and swedish culture 👌

i was kind terrified the entire video seeing how he could have easily hurt himself or even break his neck but thankfully he is okay at the end

Oh after 8 month's here we go again youtube

As an engineer, all I'm thinking of is how dangerous this act is. That man had to know exactly where to stand in order not to be crushed by the robot. I programmed a smaller version of this robotic arm, and even then I had to stay clear of where ever it was conducting its sequence.

This is truly a one of a kind type of performance. It was good acting, some high risk stunts that take a lot of strength, a great sense of humor and an incredible piece of technology. 10/10

this is a genius marketing strategy

When the comedian on your cruise ship doesn't show up and the captain has to fill in

That actually looks quite fun.

props to this guy, doing dangerous acrobatics just for our amusement.

Don't worry. This was no demo. Robot's practicing dancing skills with his creator.

Robot casually tries to murder someone. Crowd: *Applause*

this is like the robot chair used by carl in detroit:become human

I expected the arm to throw him off behind the curtain and then begin to thank the audience, that would've been gold

Kids are so going to beg for this because they can't go to amusement parks so this is a substitute for a roller coaster

It's all fun and games until the robot arm *deliberately* lets go of the chair as the guy TIGHTLY GRIPS ON TO IT for dear life while above ground.

I loved every second of this, at the same time I also started thinking "isn't this extremely dangerous? That robot arm has massive amounts of power and could crush a person".

Cars have seatbelts now, so we won't be thrown through the window if we reach our destination.

I can't help but think something could go terribly wrong during this stunt

I'm more impressed with the foundation of that stage.

im sold.

Dude I feel like I’m watching RU-vid in 2018 again, thanks for that

oh its in recommended..this'll gonna blow up soon

Who needs theme parks anymore when you have one of these at home paired with a VR headset (:

His hair made it that much better.

Fourth law of robotics: a robot must keep comfortable and exercised to a human being, no matter what!!

Engineers: "... yeah, it's totally ready for launch."

Can we just applaud this guys upper body strength?

This is incredible. These robots can kill you if you're not careful.

CGI is getting really good these days

Robots will watch this in the future as entertainment.

I can't believe i spent 3 minutes of life watching this

No kidding, I can imagine seeing that thing as an attraction in an amusement park