Industrial robot arm used as a hypnotic clock

Posted by Cory Doctorow, January 17, 2008 10:15 PM | permalink

Got a spare Denso 6DOF industrial robot arm? Why not program it to play the integral role in a large round clock, hypnotically sweeping back and forth in regular, smooth arcs, plucking bricks and moving them, resetting them and keeping time? Seriously, this is endlessly fascinating. Link (Thanks, Dean!)

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#1 posted by xopl

, January 18, 2008 7:01 AM

Why is it that I have an intense urge to pet one of them and make whosagoodboy noises?

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#2 posted by sorted , January 18, 2008 8:09 AM

neat.

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#3 posted by gosub3000 , January 18, 2008 10:53 AM

Surely this is robotic creulty and/or abuse. Not only do we have them do boring, repetitive tasks, but now we have them doing pointless, boring, repetitive tasks!

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#4 posted by Ivan

, January 18, 2008 1:01 PM

I've worked in that lab for the same class the following year

It's lots of fun

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#5 posted by mkultra , January 18, 2008 9:41 PM

great video, but the relentlessly upbeat zydeco music ruined it for me. I would have preferred either no music at all, or something a little less manic.

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#6 posted by mkultra , January 18, 2008 9:42 PM

great video, but the relentlessly upbeat zydeco music ruined it for me. I would have preferred either no music at all, or something a little less manic.