r/interestingasfuck • u/PollutionOk9449 • 1d ago

High-precision robot arm programming

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u/Cloud_N0ne 1d ago

I’m glad smart people who know how to do stuff like this exist cuz we’d still be in the stone ages if it were up to me.

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u/zilp123 1d ago

Nah, you've not been through the rigorous curriculum to understand all the progress humans have made in mechanical engineering and thus feel out of depth. If you'd taken up mechanical engineering, and had a career in it, you'd pick up enough skill to be able to contribute to something like this. It's the same as a a commoner crying that he can't do brain surgery, of course you can't do it because you've never studied it

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u/Snapped_SouthBend 1d ago

You are a nice person

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u/rivirstyx 1d ago

Right? I was feeling like a massive piece of shit all day, read his comment, *poof* I'm still a massive piece of shit, but I can be better if I keep trying. Thanks Zilp123

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u/throwawaycima 22h ago

u/zilp123 for US president 2028

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u/ShadowL0rd333 20h ago

For 2026*

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u/Free-Virus-9974 1d ago

They are. I wish more people were nice on this website.

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u/jemidiah 22h ago

In my experience, a tiny group of diehards have been behind most actual advances that push the boundaries of what's known or possible. The vast majority of engineers do entirely standard stuff. Most likely whoever you're responding to would at best be in the latter category, just by the balance of probability. 

But yes, specialized training helps immensely and is typically essential, or at least it has been for a long time.

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u/zilp123 21h ago

Not every new product needs to be a crazy innovation. If there's already breakthrough in this field, then incremental changes should be enough to make new products. For example CRISPR was the big innovation, after that every gene editing success we've had like sickle cell disease cure have come from using that big breakthrough for problem solving. That's the engineering part. Bernoulli figured out how lift, drag and other aerodynamics concepts worked, rather even just the wright brothers version of an aircraft was incredibly rudimentary and imprecise. Engineers worked on that basic design so much, now we have a variety of flying objects, to carry passengers, goods, weapons, to enter space, unmanned drones, etc. If you just look at a rocket and feel bogged down by how complex it is, it doesn't tell the full story. Yes genius breakthroughs were part of the process, but anyone now studing aerospace engineering wouldn't particularly feel overwhelmed by the task of making a rocket because it doesn't call for making it exist out of thin air, it is centuries of human work that allows it to exist

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u/AloneYogurt 16h ago

One of my favorite lines in The Expanse really expands on this.

"You know 'it isn't rocket science'," Holden said. "Like 'it isn't hard.' You're a rocket scientist, Amos. For real. You work on fusion reactors and starship drives for a living. Couple hundred years ago, people would have been lining up to give you their children for what you know."

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u/ceejayoz 11h ago

The vast majority of engineers do entirely standard stuff.

But without them, that "tiny group of diehards" largely can't function. They need the boring tools, equipment, research, supply work, infrastructure, etc. to do their work.

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u/GayButNotInThatWay 1d ago

In my first life I did a mechanical engineering degree and while I was good at it, the combined skill and knowledge (and cost!) that goes into creating and programming something like this is insane to me still.

Although a lot of my focus was on metallurgy and larger scale work rather than things like robotics.

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u/Anti-BobDK 21h ago

What blow my mind more is how far we have come. To have that robot arm, you must first invent math, Logic, microscopy, Electronics, electricity, induction, metallurgy, precicion machining, ceramics plastics, metronomy etc.

I didnt appreciate this until I started working in Engineering and realized how complicated something as basic as a spindle, a round disc or even making a planar slab is, if you didnt have machines to aid you. If we had to reset and start from scratch, even with our combined knowledge, it would still take at least a century or two to even get near where we are today.

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u/After-Regret-6609 1d ago

I mean they'd have to pass diff-e and control systems. It's not for everyone.

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u/WeinMe 22h ago

Getting the to the other side of the thermodynamics and fluid dynamics classes is the true killer of mechanical engineering - or at least was 15 years ago.

So many failed the subjects and dropped out during those two semesters

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u/chesh36517 20h ago

Whilst I genuinely love the sentiment, as someone who has done a module in Inverse Kinematics (the maths to calculate how to move the joints of a robotic arm to get it from Point A in 3D space, to Point B), I'm glad that smarter people than me exist who know how to do stuff like this 😄

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u/Slaphappydap 23h ago

It's like the Nate Bergatze joke. "If I went back in time to the 20's I don't think I'd make any difference. I don't think you'd even hear about it."

He said he doesn't even think he could prove he's from the future.

"Who's the next President?"

"uhh, oh boy."

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u/Laddeus 20h ago

Nate Bergatze

https://youtu.be/o5X1m16-Jvc?t=200

Starts at 3:20

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u/Routine-Confusion655 1d ago

It wouldn't be too bad.

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u/DrawMeAPictureOfThis 1d ago

Pretty sure it would be really bad. If someone says their skills will have us still in the stone age, then believe them. They are already smarter than the vast majority that would confidently say otherwise while being dumb as a box of rocks.

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u/noctalla 1d ago

You can be quite intelligent without ever innovating something new and you can create something new without being a genius. All of our brains work differently and we all vary in our cognitive skills.

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u/Routine-Confusion655 1d ago

No, I mean, it wouldn't be too bad if we were living in the Stone Age. I'm tired of fast-paced modern life, where my entire value is determined by how much money I make. Let me go out there, hunt, and have my life depend on my own survival and the small community around me.

Sure, we'd all die young from something entirely preventable, if we weren't outright killed by one of the many, many dangers out there. But there's something pure and honest about that kind of existence, as opposed to the hypocrisy that permeates everyday modern life.

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u/Mario0412 1d ago

Idk dawg, personally I'll stick with clean water and antibiotics and hypocracy 😅

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u/tripudiater 1d ago

I want dirty water, uncle-biotics, and hypercracy.

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u/DarthMaulATAT 1d ago

I can see how a permanent break away from the constant grind of modern life and technology would be mentally beneficial and feel amazing, but it's definitely an overly romanticized idea. I bet you anything if people from the stone age looked at our way of life, most of them would trade to be here in a heartbeat.

Most people nowadays have clothes, a roof over their head, virtually no predators to speak of, foods of a thousand varieties readily available, advanced medical care, machines to help us with thinking, working and traveling, the ability to converse with people on the other side of the globe instantaneously, etc etc etc......

Today's world has its problems for sure, but it would probably still seem like paradise to someone who has to fight tooth and nail to survive every day.

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u/Thundariel 1d ago

You and me both pal.

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u/CaptainBringdown 1d ago

it's easier than you may think. I've programmed forward kinematic chains for 6 jointed arms like this in both BASIC and Excel.

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u/CasualVox 17h ago

I work at Toyota programming robots like this every day... trust me it isn't that difficult. A week of training and you could do it just fine lol

Now the programming logic takes a bit more effort, but just programming the movements and i/o is simple.

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u/fukredditadm1n5 1d ago

Wait till you learn about ASLM

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u/Onsidianrubucx 23h ago

i went to a career tech school for robotics, the programming for this is really simple

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u/draingang_dg 21h ago

I mean, this machine probably wasn't created by one person either 

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u/CatTaxAuditor 21h ago

Making this arm, very smart. Programming it to move like that? You could be taught how over a few lessons! 

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u/pblokhout 21h ago

As a software developer that dabbles a little bit in robotics for hobby, we're also idiots that simply spent more time with the subject.

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u/Pixel_Knight 2h ago

My mom has literally said this exact thing multiple times before. 

It took humanity probably at least a million years to get where we are, and most of our technology happened in the last century and a half or so. 

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u/Snoo_67548 1h ago

Just wait until the AI’s robots strap you in and use this to torture you!

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u/Syncer-Cyde 1d ago

It's not gay as long as the tips don't touch

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u/hexagon-the-bestagon 18h ago

Extra funny considering the swedish word for cock (penis) is kuk and the definite variant being pronounced kuka in some dialects.

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u/WeinMe 22h ago

Imagine inventing a KUKA robot, advancing control systems, firmware and complex equations just to be able to claim no homo.

If we just put all that effort into using this robot for something else than proving we're not homo, imagine the leaps in manufacturing we could do.

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u/endeend8 1d ago

No homo

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u/Chrisch3n 1d ago

That’s the same robots that build modern cars and other things all over the world. The fascinating thing is not the programming (you could guide a kid to write that program in 5 minutes, since the robot „just“ keeps the tool center point (TCP) steady and moves a few axis with this required).
What is amazing is that the machine itself can move with this kind of precision and repeatability and the interplay of the vector transformations that make the movement calculations of the underlying program possible.

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u/ScuttleScrub3 23h ago

Idk anything about robot software specifically, but if it's "easy" to program, that's only gonna be possible because all of the actual complexity is abstracted away, hidden behind some library.
Sure, the complexity will mostly just be from math rather than software, but there's a lot of moving parts.

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u/Traditional-Buy-2205 22h ago

Yes, there's application programming (the programming the user does when he receives the finished product), and system programming that the manufacturer does during the making of the robot.

This this is trivial to achieve on an application level. You just tell the robot that the center of his tool is there, and tell him "rotate X degrees around the center". Literally child's play.

But actually programming a robot to be able to do that, i.e. all the programming under the programming that the actual user does, that's some amazing piece of work.

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u/Traditional-Buy-2205 22h ago

The fascinating thing is not the programming

Programming a finished robot to do this using its build-in programming language is simple.

But programming the robot itself, i.e. the system programming, the programming that the robot designer / manufacturer did to make this robot work, is actual sorcery.

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u/Scheissdrauf88 19h ago

It's okay. Takes a bit of math and coordinate transformations, but it is overall very doable, especially when you have programs doing the matrix-inversions for you.

Honestly, the biggest issue for me would probably be the API/addressing the mechanical parts correctly. In my experience it is never as easy as the manual tells you, and getting everything connected properly is a pain in the ass.

The truly impressive thing here is the engineering itself IMO. That the joints can execute the mathematical commands that precisely and in sync.

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u/aruisdante 17h ago

The math involved isn’t as hard as you might imagine. We learned to do it by hand in my undergraduate 3000 level robotics classes, and essentially built and programmed our own version of one of these arms (obviously at a much smaller scale) from maybe $30 in parts. Inverse kinematics for 6DoF arms with spherical wrists are a well researched problem, as are 7DoF for the arm being able to traverse forwards and backwards.

Now whoever figured out the math for inverse kinematics originally (and the related Jacobien for doing visual servo-ing when you don’t have the inverse kinematics), those were wizards 😂 

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u/OxiTANGE 21h ago

you could guide a kid to write that program in 5 minutes

I'm getting flashbacks of having to work out inverse kinematics from scratch in engineering school... I know I wasn't the best at maths, but your average kid isn't going to do that lmao

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u/NeoTheRiot 1d ago

Kinda puts into perspective just how messed up our bodycontroll really is.

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u/DashLeJoker 1d ago

because we dont need precision engineering level of control to make babies

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u/WatermelonWithAFlute 1d ago

Okay that’s cool

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u/Informal_Tell78 1d ago

For these robots, this is quite simple to program it to do that, its kinda what they're designed for. As for the programming behind the programming, thats where the real beauty lies!

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u/Ordinary_Quantity_02 1d ago

I work as an engineer at a successful robotics startup and this is some bullshit you would say if you’ve never actually designed a robotic arm from the ground up.

Nothing about this is simple, to get precision this high the motors and feedback are likely torque-based control, and need to account for the natural frequency of the system along with things such as torque ripple. These are extremely high-level controls equations where you need to account for the components flexing under load due to how large of a cantilevered load exists.

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u/DrawMeAPictureOfThis 1d ago

First time on Reddit talking to kids, idiots and idiot kids?

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u/Hypnooooooooooooo 18h ago

Bots, don't forget bots.

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u/Ordinary_Quantity_02 1d ago

Yeah, I just got sucked in because this is what I actually do at work. If it were that simple, I wouldn’t have a job. Even the best AI models are still trash at PID tuning. They certainly help tho.

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u/hyprsnpr67 1d ago

That's what they're talking about with the programming behind the programming doofus. The end user doesn't want to write high level controls equations. They get the simple programming. You get the programming behind the programming. Really not a difficult literacy task.

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u/inspron2 15h ago

First rule of reddit is if you want to know something, just spew some bullshit and some expert like you will spill the bean. Engagement machine did its job.

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u/YoucantdothatonTV 12h ago

how does Kuka compare to Staubli?

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u/k1ng4400 1d ago

I am a software engineer myself and yet I have no clue how to make the firmware and software like this.

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u/After-Regret-6609 1d ago

You use a discipline called inverse kinematics. You basically solve the equation given the position of the head with the constraints of the length of each section of the arm for the rotation of all the joints.

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u/Upper_Top9348 1d ago

Start with programming a step motor. It's extremely simple. The precision on a cheap one is already pretty insane.

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u/Ordinary_Quantity_02 1d ago

That’s the thing though, these aren’t open-loop stepper motors, these are likely AC servos with 50 to 1 strain wave gearboxes. Using gearbox input and output encoders to measure flex and lash in the system compared to input and target.

You need to develop a complex control equation to run this properly and the best equation is different for every different robot.

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u/ReasonCertain1518 1d ago

Can confirm, I learned how to do almost exactly this in a short afternoon on my own with basic Google searches

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u/ooshogunoo 1d ago

It's just a programed tool center point (TCP). It's a reference point taught by the operator and then jogging of the robot around that point.

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u/Ok_Replacement4702 1d ago

A human programmed these positions. The robot just does what it's told.

For now

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u/tantalor 1d ago

It's not about programming. It's about the tolerances and backlash in the mechanical systems being able to comply with the programming.

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u/Ordinary_Quantity_02 1d ago

The amount of engineering that goes into the firmware that controls these robots is insane. Truly, 3rd order kinematic equations, 20 bit inductive encoders on both the input and output shaft.

Developing the control equation to actually make this thing move and not shake requires a bare minimum of graduate-level college course knowledge.

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u/solo_leveler_69420 1d ago

That "For now" is like a cliffhanger to what horrible things are gonna happen in comming times..

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u/theoneguywhoaskswhy 23h ago

The turning point 5

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u/steef12349 1d ago

The IK (Inverse kinematics) is not usually done by us anymore, generally we use either a bespoke software to plan paths via waypoints and the software running the robot pendant (user controller interface for the robot) does all the math. We kinda just tell it to... Move. And it does.

I worked on some of the software for these things and the integrated sensor, it's really not much different from the math done to make a players limbs in games move to target places

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u/pichael289 23h ago

I think his point was more that you are telling it what to do and it does it in the right you couldn't compute in your head. Soon it's going to be deciding on its own, and unfortunately we don't have the ability to tell exactly why it does what it does, that would take centuries to comb through manually. At least that how his comment sounded to me.

"For now" is the phrase used that makes us all think we might be slaughtered by terminators in the next decade.

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u/steef12349 23h ago

Kinda, but "can't explain it" isnt entirely correct. AI is increasingly used to pick target poses (vision, grasping, auto path generation), and that layer is a black box, sure

The IK and motion planning underneath are still deterministic, and the safety controller still enforces limits regardless of what the AI asks for.

the risk isnt the arm going rogue, it's the AI choosing a dumb target, which the lower layers then execute exactly or refuse. Good sims have collision simulation based on collider boxes, and ask for a replan or retarget when a collision is detected or safety boundary is breached.

Math for this will stay understandable, until the laws of physics change lol

Source: senior robotics/perception engineer working on exactl this

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u/FG910 1d ago

Yeah and software is prepared to keep the position when only angular movement is used
This ir very common robot behaviour

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u/JJlaser1 18h ago

That’s still impressive precision. I don’t care a lot how it was programmed, the result is still cool. To think only 40-ish years ago if you wanted to get anywhere close to this you’d need a computer the size of a wardrobe, and it wouldn’t be nearly as precise. And now we can make these programs on computers not much bigger than a large briefcase! I know a lot of the world sucks right now, but sometimes I am reminded just how far we’ve advanced technologically just in the time I’ve been alive.

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u/Coveinant 1d ago

Do not turn on sound if you have sensitive hearing.

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u/chodeboi 1d ago

This is great, but…some EHS safety program manager right now is losing their shit

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u/42069qwertz42069 21h ago

Dunno whats EHS is but its not that wild, you have on hand on a dead-man switch, our maintainance crew have to work all the time inside the safety zone.

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u/skateboardbanana1 20h ago

My point exactly, seen a kuka robot hurl a car door 150 ft when there was a power blip one time. It will suddenly try to return home and hit this guy if there’s a power blip

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u/Dick_In_A_Tardis 18h ago

Seconding this, one issue in programming, forgetting a force overload setting or setting it too high and now you've got a robot flailing around until it takes out its own power supply or it grinds its gears to dust.

You don't want to stand next to one of these.

Now saying that... When we decommissioned one a coworker took it home and programmed it to retrieve beers from a mini fridge and restock it. Kept it behind the couch. That was pretty cool. Hasn't decapitated himself as of yet so I'll say he programmed it alright. Been about 5 years now.

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u/skateboardbanana1 17h ago

Depends on how big the robot is. This one is pretty large. I’ve seen one with 20 ft of reach that inserted the dashboard of a car. That monster could do serious harm. Biggest thing is the robot being in safe torque off

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u/Buddha176 14h ago

You can easily be recording this while holding the teach pendant which is totally safe.

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u/Mr0lsen 7h ago

It's moving around teach speeds, likely being jogged from the pendant. Which acording to the RIA and OSHA is totally fine.

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u/Apart-Gur-9720 1d ago

It's not there yet, but I can almost imagine it as a tool for performing surgeries; a smaller version.

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u/TheMadTemplar 1d ago

We already have those. Look up the Da Vinci 5. Surgeons basically play a video game with a crazy advanced robot that does the actual surgery.

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u/aspie_electrician 21h ago

They did surgery on a grape

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u/Initial_Row_6400 21h ago

Saw one where the surgeon cut the colored layer of a balloon off and suture it

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u/do-not-freeze 5h ago

We host medical conferences that have those. Pretty wild to see a surgical robot just sitting there on the dock waiting to be crated up.

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u/Common-Concentrate-2 23h ago

Those things can suture up a kernel of corn or a grain of rice

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u/GuybrushThreepwo0d 14h ago

By god Please do not operate on me with a Kuka lol

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u/Key_Tip8057 18h ago

That’s been a thing for years. This level of precision is not new.

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u/assidiou 1d ago edited 1d ago

They're teaching the TCP (tool center point) on a 6 axis robot with a 7th axis rail. This is a pretty common method with two pointed tools.

How does it do this? The answer is LOTS of matrix calculations.

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u/Consistent-Ask-1925 1d ago

Man idk what the math behind this is, but it makes my head hurt just thinking about iy

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u/lo_fi_ho 22h ago

Kuka? Sold to China btw

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u/SinisterCheese 17h ago

As someone who has programmed robots, in software suite and with the remote.

This isn't as hard as you'd think. It's actually a rather basic exercise everyone getting a certification or studying automation should do.

Just open the custom refrence panel, add the location of the end of the tool as coordinates, define the refrence direction and type.

Then select that tool from the remote or in-suite, and off you go.

This isn't anything special. You need to do this for EVERY custom tool you put into a robot.

Robots by default have quite few different coordinate systems, and you swap between those depending on what is the most convinient for making the move.

In software suite this is even easier (At least in ABB it was) you just lock the point of the rod in the simulation and then move the arm as desired and save the move.

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u/darklordjames 16h ago

For the end user, yeah, this is easy. Think one level higher to the programming that went into the robot. That is the impressive part.

I've spent time with these robots. I've also spent time in 4th axis CNC programming. Programming 4th axis movement is easy on my end, because all the really complicated parts are abstracted away from me in the CAM software. That doesn't make what the CAM is doing less impressive. It's far more impressive on my end when I open up Notepad and hand type out 3-axis g-code than when I CAM 4-axis g-code.

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u/SinisterCheese 16h ago

Funny thing is that the controller side is actually really simple. It is almost beutiful how simple it is. And that is how we want it to stay, simply because it ensures compatibility, operatibility, integratibility (Surely that is an english word?), and safety.

However the shit that goes to making the kinematic solution -especially near real time solving- is shit I don't even want to think about. It is a black box where magic happens, and beyond that I do not want to even consider it's existence. Especially when you got high speed and accelerations, the stuff starts to give me anxiety to even think about. And most modern system can even account for the physical frames bending, join tolerances and give in the system with variety of sensors.

But when you get the cell to run in tandem and perfectly synchorinised, it is just beautiful.

But Gcode is fun. It is actually lovely in how simple it is, and regardless of what flavour it is, it basically works them same. I have mostly written for flat applications, where I got 2 working axis, but the tool itself can have 1-4 axis (For example: Z in cutter systems is laser/jet/plasma tool height; then there are 1-2 for optics minimum). Granted with sheet metal systems you rarely adjust those during program (Or just call subroutine for doing those), but if you are clever you can do all sorts of fun things by adjusting the optics during moves; and if you really want to optimise, you set the optics to adjust during the travel. I programmed a whole library of interesting things (Most were useful, some were just: "Huh... NEAT!" things) for one machine shop's laser.

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u/imeeme 1d ago

Thought the tips were magnetic.

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u/Broad_Television4459 23h ago

That's literally how you setup the tool centre point. Unusually a cable tie is used when the tooling itself doesn't supply dimensions or a fixed point.

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u/SiaHalz 15h ago

Really is just like a 5 axis mill, that's pretty neat. Well I guess it'd be 6 axis

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u/WarOtter 15h ago

7axis I think. The tool holder can spin, so that's one, plus the knuckle and next spin joint, then two more elbow section before the bar, and the base rotates for 6. 7th is the back and forth of the whole robot

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u/OddRobotics 15h ago

this is just a simple Jog function, locking the end of the tooling, the length is in the rapid text... guys probably just moving the joystick on the pendent around

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u/skillcourt 1d ago

Ah ok so the tips are supposed to stay in same distance while arm rotates.. my work here is done.. hand me my cape and beer

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u/ipokesnails 1d ago

I see the PegBot 5,000,000 that I ordered has arrived.

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u/CaptainBringdown 1d ago

controlling a tool tip in free space is trivially easy and has been for decades. the real problems that need to be solved are how to control a tool tip that's constrained by grasping a work piece that is not free to move in all dimensions and requires the application of force. what would be significantly more impressive is seeing a robot open a zippered bag (which I've seen NASA's Valkyrie do, albeit painfully slowly).

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u/Bound4Truble78 22h ago

Thank God someone finally invented a robot capable of pointing a stick at a pencil from many different angles. This will change EVERYTHING!

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u/NyteTro 21h ago

I don't know why, but this makes me uncomfortable in a way I can't explain. Maybe like a "something feels unnatural" kind of way

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u/Stretch5678 20h ago

Holy WOW.

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u/Hoppinpoff 19h ago

i just wish it could point in another direction

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u/Remarkable-Oven-2938 18h ago

Imagine how precisely we'll be vivisected, come the revolution

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u/AndySkibba 16h ago

Kinematics is awesome. The calcs behind joint movements are always super interesting in practice.

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u/Bbrhuft 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'd love it to show off it's accuracy as a million dollar pencil sharpener.

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u/SirPitchalot 1d ago

The IRB 1600 has a reach of ~1.5m, payload capacity of ~6kg and repeatability of between 0.02-0.2mm.

You can get them like-new used for less than $20k

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u/Bbrhuft 1d ago

That's way cheaper than I thought, and amazing accuracy.

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u/FuzzyTunaTaco21 1d ago

Im not touching you!

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u/totallynotswiss 1d ago

I bet this could pick a lot of hay

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u/CreativeMinds47 21h ago

Interesting fact: After Kuka was bought by the Chinese corp, their auto industry started booming and Germany's fell apart...

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u/Worried-Commission59 1d ago

On a road trip as a kid and your sibling is not poking you but doing this instead.

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u/Practical_Gas8750 1d ago

The drone will be able to penetrate my skull even more aptly now

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u/AstroFace 1d ago

Now THAT'S an isocenter!

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u/m3kw 1d ago

would be fun to put it close to someones face if they want some thrills

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u/C-57D 1d ago

my robotic angel. look at you dancing

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u/enadiz_reccos 1d ago

Big whoop. I can keep my finger in the same spot and jump all around.

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u/Longjumping-Oven4457 1d ago

Big deal my daughter does this to my son in the car while I'm whipping around corners. I'm not touching you, I'm not touching you!

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u/PeterNippelstein 1d ago

I worked with a few of these Kuka machines at my last job building trusses, they were a pain in the ass, and also kind of scary sometimes.

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u/Standard-Fishing-450 1d ago

It could play the most intense game of "I'm not touching you".

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u/Theodorus75 1d ago

Stunning video.

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u/pichael289 23h ago

This is basically how they do super high density experiments. Something compresses between two very powerful almost needles like this.

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u/mikolajwisal 23h ago

Me learning not to touch it with teeth

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u/OkStartOver 23h ago

JT 7 look ok

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u/unodron 23h ago

Don't believe everything you see online.
I bet they have MAGNETS!!!
:)

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u/RockStarGamesSocial 23h ago

Does it have to be SO FUCKING NOISY

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u/serblak 23h ago

"I'm not touching you"

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u/obidie 22h ago

Okay, now THIS is the machine I want to see in all those automatic pizza-making machines!

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u/Dr_F_Rreakout 22h ago

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

- Arthur C. Clarke -

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u/Blissful_Altruism 22h ago

Me when I see a cool bug

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u/Nicolas__Moonlit 22h ago

The beauty of those things is that all the complexity is abstracted away from the user. At my university we have a lineup of KUKA robots and they are surprisingly easy to use. The biggest hurdle is getting used to 6d mouse, but its amazing when you get the knack of it

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u/gyanimon 22h ago

"Jitna sikhaya hai utna hi karna ek mm bhi idhar udar nahi"

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u/OrlandoGardiner118 20h ago

Coming over here, putting Mimes out of a job.

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u/Walkingstardust 19h ago

That's a very well defined TCP.

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u/0L0340 17h ago

Nossa titia, que maneiro! Sério, muito top a tecnologia atual. Super avançada, graças a Deus 🙌🏻

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u/rcuadro 16h ago

Looks like me trying to break off a small branch off a tree

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u/CandidAd8395 14h ago

Se llama kuka el robot

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u/gfoyle76 14h ago

it's all about inverse kinematics

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u/thenord321 13h ago

High precision calibration, I'm sure it took a LONG time to initially setup this accuracy. Even an automated calibration probably took days since there are so many adjustments possible on that arm.

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u/Karl_Skarin 13h ago

Swede here. Hello to all other Nordicks. 

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u/50FirstCakes 12h ago

It sounds like it could use some WD40. That high pitched screeching sound is terrible.

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u/Shyxt 12h ago

"IM NOT TOUCHING YOU!"

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u/goonerqpq 11h ago

I loved doing this back when I programmed 6 axis robots. Every now and again youd have to unknot a programme and find a better way because you couldnt do the next move without hitting a joint error.

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u/cadw_ro 11h ago

Fucking terrifying

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u/Nekrevez 11h ago

Yeah ok, but can you play Doom on it...?

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u/smileybunnie 7h ago

Being an engineer and watching the stuff others have made makes me feel dumb as fuck like how am I supposed to compete with this. What do I do to get there

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u/YetAnotherDev 6h ago

And that, little kids, is why math is cool.

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u/Earllad 6h ago

Tool Center Point? More like Totally Cool Point

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u/zayphod 5h ago

I’m not touching you….

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u/myworklogin777 5h ago

If robots could talk, "I'm not touching you, I'm not touchng you, I'm not touching you...."

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u/Serious_Room3606 4h ago

Imagine you're laying on a table and this machine is rotating the point around your eye that close. Sounds really unpleasant.

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u/rawkguitar 3h ago

RIP Manufacturing jobs

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u/__Dirty_Dan- 3h ago

"Ahm ahm...i see..its pointy"

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u/NeedingNew 1h ago

Do a barrel roll