Hobby robot actuator can destroy your finger in an instant
Andrew Alter of Trossen Robotics says:
I was working on my mech Hagetaka [a bipedal combat robot] the other night and made the mistake of grabbing at the robot to stabilize it while it was moving, and managed to graze my finger in one of the joints. It drew blood and immediately reminded me that working with these types of servos was an entirely different ballgame than your standard hobby servo. With that in mind, we put together a little demonstration video of just how powerful these servos can be! Enjoy!RX-64: Just one more weapon in Skynet’s arsenal
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Hey, I'm trying to eat here.
I wonder what kind of bones they used? (There are probably some here that can tell by their appearance...)
If they're poultry bones, I'm not nearly as impressed.
I doubt it would be a pleasant experience to stick my finger in there but I suspect it would fare better than a hot dog or marshmallow peep.
Chicken bones aren't really a fair approximation either. If they were it wouldn't be so easy to break them with your bare fingers.
One's finger is a little tougher than your average hot-dog, too.... But not nearly as tasty!
Those didn't look like raw bones which are considerarbly hardler to break and cooked/charred bones.
Oh, man! it snapped that chicken bone like it was HOLLOW! Wow.
I also doubt the muscles in my fingers are stronger than the ground meat of a hot dog or a marshmallow Peep.
When the swine flu gets a hold of this we'll all be dead.
The RX-64 hasn't got shit on your average industrial robot.
The robots scored their first kill in 1979, and their second in 1981:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot#Potential_problems
I just got my i-Sobot this week.
Despite my best efforts, it has yet to remove any limbs or fingers.
Then again, it's only 6.5" tall. That could be the problem right there.
I for one, welcome our,
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Tom is still my favorite servo.
Did anyone notice that the smaller servo wasn't bolted to the board as effectively as the larger one. This would create a decrease in pressure at the point of contact... Thus, less damage.
Can you say "Media bias"!!
We're doomed.
American interrogators are watching this video and wishing they had toys like this a couple years ago.
Having worked with very much larger, faster, and more powerful servos this is nothing. One of the problems is these things are so fast that they depend on mechanical clutches for protection in case of a crash. However, the loads are also very high so the clutches are proportionally heavier. In other words there is no such thing as a safe servo. Most of our equipment was enclosed behind interlocked guarding.
I would think that "bipedal combat robot" would be the first clue, there.
I still prefer stuff blowing up. Then dropping things from on high. But this is OK.
Advice from master goldsmith and metalworking safety expert Charles Lewton-Brain:
SourceBut will it blend?
So long as nobody makes a robot in the form of a piano, I think our fingers are safe......for now, at least.
What's the point of bipedal combat robots without the presence of Japanese schoolgirls in impractically short skirts?
All I know is that robots eat old people's medicine for fuel.
Violates the first Law of Robotics.
Pantograph, personally I find that shorter skirts are far more practical.
RX-64 - $280, 888 Oz-in torque (4.625 ft-lbs), 60-degree rotation in 0.162 sec. @ 18V