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ABB FlexPicker Robot's Legs Move So Fast it's Scary

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. More »

2:30 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Kit Eaton
20,953 views, 52 comments

Latest by bu11etman: Cool stuff. Who are cleaning this machines so they stay hygenic? Do they leak oil into my muffin? All collage educated ppl cant eat all those muffins? And the workers who lost their jobs for this machines cant afford muffins? more »