robots
The ABB
IRB 340 FlexPicker's legs instantly put me in mind of a kind of merciless Matrixesque robot, snatching up human bodies and doing terrible things to them. But apparently, it's the world's fastest industrial robot, and is used to pick and sort items on a
production line— innocent things like sausages and croissants. By fastest, it means 10g of acceleration: that's zero to 280mph in a
single second. Which makes for one heck of a rapid sausage, as the fascinating (and eerily Matrix-like) video reveals.
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