It is no secret that Industrial Robot Arms aren’t developer friendly. I have experience with a couple different robot arm manufacturers and I can only say maybe one of them has done a good job in creating a developer friendly interface for their hardware
While the difficulty of implementing a robot driver varies greatly by robot manufacturer, a good API design can abstract that complexity. I think we can all come up with some basic functionality that an industrial grade robot arm should have and use that as a somewhat of an industry standard.
I know people will argue that ROS does this already. I think however there is a whole range of applications where paying the ROS tax doesnt make sense. I rather create a ROS wrapper over this C++/python API so developers arent forced to use ROS when they dont want to.
I know ROBOdk exists, but it requires a license.
Anybody agree with my sentiments?
I've been working on my city and just researched Industrial Robots.
How do they work? I see I have to make a factory for them with all the support structures but do they need to be connected to everything else? I've currently separated concrete/steel/science into their own zones with their own supply chains to keep traffic contained. (I also need to use less intersections but so far traffic flows)
Platform(s): PC
Genre: Racing (+open world-ish maybe)
Estimated year of release: 2000-2010
Graphics/art style: 3D, third person, dark-ish with really heavy render distance-fog, REALLY industrial and post-apocalyptic with junkyards/piles of trash and possibly even atomic waste, but still kind of cartoony and silly
Notable characters: Multiple weird, cartoony robots which were handling the flags for the race or you had to bring them somewhere etc.. I think they were blue/turqoise and human-like with a round, flat bottom instead of feet
Notable gameplay mechanics: you could race against a ghost version of yourself (literally, it was just transparent), put a robot on the back of your car and bring it somewhere, drive over a bump/ramp to glide over obstacles/fences with a rotor you could get somewhere in a level. There were possibly other things than the rotor (maybe a cannon or something electric?) but I don't remember
Other details: it had some REALLY weird and loud sounds when you lost etc.; your car just exploded if it was too heavily damaged; the car selection screen was light grey and the car kind of bounced when you switched between models (you could also choose between colors/patterns); multiple different level themes, the ones I remember the most are a green mountain area with white fog, a junkyard where you used the rotor and a small city-area with burning metal barrels and guard rails as obstacles for a race, both with orange fog... I also remember a vulcano somewhere that you could just drive into but not sure about that
Hope that's enough details. I played it on my grandparent's old Windows XP PC and had no idea where it even came from. It was really crazy and it scared me (especially the loosing sound which I still remember vividly) but I'm dying to find it again.
I program and install industrial robots… ask me anything…
I'm learning how to use robots for my job but I lack the fundamentals of how to approach solving a problem with a robot. I can code just fine but the concepts of poses, pick points, planes, and force control evade me.
Are there any good resources to look into on the fundamentals of robotics? Perhaps texts from a course taken?
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viviparous reproduction using the GMO's natural reproductive system - GMO can either have two sexes or be hermaphroditic
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oviparous reproduction using the GMO's natural reproductive system - same as above
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viviparous reproduction using a synthetic reproductive system - GMO has no reproductive system of its own
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oviparous reproduction using a synthetic reproductive system - same as above
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eusocial insect-style reproduction: a larger variant of the GMO is the only variant with a functioning reproductive system and is tasked with mass-producing drones
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jellyfish-style reproduction: a sessile organism that buds off smaller motile organisms, similar to a jellyfish's polyp phase
[SOLVED] From what I remember some teens were on a school bus in a run down industrial area riding home. Bus/electricity goes out and the older woman bus driver leaves to go find help.
She doesn’t return so the teens leave to go find out what’s going on.
Some silver robot/alien is walking about then starts chasing them.
Eventually they find a fire axe and knock it down and something to do with them figuring out the gem on its stomach needs to be destroyed?
Edit: grammar and fixing autocorrect mistakes.
Hi guys,
We (small team) are planning to develop a full-featured robotic product that aims to commercial level targets, So I'm finding some suggestions and experience on the topic, specifically about embedded system design, my question is: what type of microcontrollers are mostly used in industry (MIR, Kiva Robot) for embedded low-level tasks such as: sensors data collection, fail-safe and motor control stuffs...
As in MIR-100 (in this link: https://aliasrobotics.com/teardown-mir100.php), I see that it uses Teensy 3.2 board. I've tried finding other similar teardown articles but there's not much on the webs.
I'd also appreciate your experience about the design and suggestions about this topic. Thanks!!
I am currently trying to learn more about about industrial robots and automation. Robots must have high stiffnesses in order for them to be rigid and pick up objects. What is the process of calculating the robots stiffness? And ensuring that it is correct for assembly application? I am currently looking at cylindrical structures such as some Kuka robots as an example.
Please could anyone advise?
