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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
21,096 views, 52 comments

Latest by n/a: @ vafer2k I was thinnking about that too. It's 218 mph. 1g = 9,8 m/s² 10g = 98 m/s² After 1 s > 98 m/s = 352,8 kmh (218,7 mph) Or for g = 10 m/s² After 1 s > 100 m/s = 360 kmh more »

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Remote Controlled Robot Arm Can Build Very Tiny Cars

Sure, you might not be able to mount up on it and nearly smash your soft, half-empty skull on a cement floor with this, but the remote control robotic arm is still pretty sweet. More »

10:20 AM on Thu Feb 8 2007
By Adam Frucci
1,462 views, 13 comments