Really cool video, but on the sausages (I think that was what they were, grainy detail) it let a couple by. Rejects?

We are so dead.

mmmm. Croissants. Now I know how they make foodstuff in HL2.

makes me glad I went to college.

Which confirms my puzzlement at the why that the terminators in the Sarah Connor Chronicles can only run as fast a humans.

They are quite amazing. I'd like to know more about how they do their decision making.

Needles will soon be found in haystacks all over the world!

Bah... They edited out the part where the robots fell behind and started jamming muffins inside of its casing.

Wow I bet Cyberdine has been busy making those machines.

whoa. I was sure that the first 10 seconds were rendered. Pretty damn impressive.

Do you know the muffinbot?

Outrageous! More Sausage sorting jobs being eliminated by technology! We could have outsourced to this to a third world country!

Damn you corporate robotic 'yes men' to hell!

Imagine how Lucy would feel if she saw this

the funny looking ones will be turned into animal fodder. Mainly for pigs. I worked in an industrial bakery for one summer and we threw away tons of nearly perfect bread every day ...

@Redwraithvienna: No wonder pigs are so fat. Always wondered that.

I am also outraged that we're building machines to take the place of perfectly good croissant sorters. Next, machines will be making the croissants themselveve.....

never mind.

We could really use this system to pick our next politicians:
"Just lie down on this belt, please."
*Whirr*
*Poink*
*Zzzzip*
"AAAaaa!!!"
"75 yards, Jim! good toss!"

Something tells me this is the beginning of the end for a lot of unskilled manual labor. Soon Robotania will replace China, Taiwan or Malaysia as our biggest trading partner.

Damn! Someone beat me to the Lucy reference.

@icelight: It think Robotania calls itself Zero One. Our economy is screwed.

On the decision making: These are industrial robots, just not of the typical 4-6 axis variety. The decision making is standard boolean logic which gets its inputs from field devices (switches, sensors, computer aided vision, etc) or from a PLC (programmable logic controller) which will have the sensors wired into that then send information (inputs, offset distances, etc) to the robot.

@johncon3: @m4ximusprim3: Robots won't spit in your food or play pranks....

so, what if this was made into a sex robot, too scary. sorry couldn't help myself, the earlier perverted sex robot post and this wiener video is to blame.

4.5 lbs isn't much, but it's still really cool. How much does each one cost?

@Boognish: you beat me to it.

Slap a vagina on this puppy and consider me a robosexual. Zoltran would dump alice in a heartbeat for a vagina wielding one of these.

@icelight: That's pronounced "Japan", fyi.

Headline should say "Robot's Arms." I think it's quite clear from the video that the robot is not using these limbs to walk, but instead to move objects around. Arms, not legs.

That's amazingly efficient. Much better than any human could do the job.

Pfft, i've seen faster:

Robot arms are pretty neat, but their reach is limited to their working envelope. Until they get mobile platforms to move around on that can take the high torque, we're safe.... for now.

@NaleAne:
I believe most of these systems use a camera that the objects pass under, which allows a connected PC to sort by shape/color, etc. and pass along movement/picking instructions to the arm(s)

There are plenty of youtube videos of robot packing arms, so browse around. There was one of a wire-laying arm that was really cool.

@bandit: cheap apartments there...nice view

Dangit.....now I need to call up all my Mexican Homies and let them know they are out of work!

@DustyButt: We seem to keep feeding ourselves more and more rope...

@sandmanfvr: load balancing.

One robot does just enough work so that its easier on the ones down the line. Total workload is calculated and spread across the robots, notice how there were lines of robots doing the same job.

Its common in lines with humans where its too big of a job for one person, they have 3-4 in a row and each does what they can, the idea is when it gets to the last person all that is left is the job one person can do.

Hold the confections, Batman, you never said anything in the article about muffins. I am so getting one of these things for all my, err...muffin...sorting...needs, for which I do daily and currently on a non-automated basis.

No doubt ... developed in the Third Reich.

The sausages! They're people! People!

@Brock: Actually America's biggest trading partner, by far, is Canada; you know that big blank space above the map of America? More goods come across the border in one day from Canada, then from Japan in a year.

@Mandatory_Field: Also robots won't be probing their anal apertures for will nots either. And for me that is a good thing.

I Love Lucy. Robots, schmobots. Bleh.

@Gary_7vn & @Gary_7vn: Koyaanisqatsi

(The full film has sausages. Lots and lots of sausages.)

@Gary_7vn: You mean America Minor?

@calebc: Whatever...

LUCY!

...WAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH... >.>,

I spent time in a bakery factory packing the miniature donuts. 12 hours a day sorting and dropping 6 donuts in a pack. If only I had this robot in my pocket.

Thankfully I did this only for 1 week, I hope I didn't smash anyone's donuts here.

@Bos'un's Mate:

We just need to make these superfast man-part-sorting robots look like old ladies. Then everything will be fine and nobody will get the severe case of heebeejeebees that the first vid gave me.

I wonder if that "technosexual" dude Zoltan from the other article knows about these? Oh..Oh...10g..Oh!

10g in 1 sec, isn't that about 218mph rather than 280mph? 1g = 32ft/s^2, 10g = 320ft/s^2, 1 mile = 5280 ft. (320 x 3600seconds)/5280 = 218.18

What? No video of the robots killing the animals before they turn them into sausages? I want to see the NC-17 version!

that looks pretty advanced.