Something got dropped off at my Mechatronics lab!

hemi71x said
Looks like lotsa $$$$$$$$$$ there.

Oh for sure. The instructor told me the price and I was surprised. THEN he told me that was just for the robot itself. The whole control cabinet was separate. Yikes!

Ddaddy said
Very cool! I have designed and built several Pharmaceutical manufacturing plants that use robots like that for a variety of purposes. This is me with one of my favorites...part of a washing, drying and loading system for for 700 lb baskets of stainless steel ball milling media. It includes vision location systems and safety light curtains.

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You are going to have a blast “teaching” that robot to do things!

That is super cool! We've got mini Fanuc robots for training, and I have my Level 1 CERT from them as well. We'll be diving into vision systems after the break which will be interesting. How is working in the Pharmaceutical plants?

gzig5 said
Those Kuka's are pretty neat. We have one or two downtown and are getting some others in our lab. I work for Rockwell in the motion control business. Lots of fun toys to play with. I've been pulled over to some of the linear motion projects and there is some really neat stuff going on and customers doing a lot of integration with Kuka and other robots. Look up some of the videos on the iTRAK and MagnaMotion for some interesting automation examples. We just launched a small frame version of the iTRAK. The movers can hit 5 meters per second max V, which is hauling. We live in interesting times.

Thank you, I'll definitely look into that! It really amazes me what people have thought of putting these robots and other control systems into use for. Truly creative and clever. I've got a lot to learn lol.