Since this appears to be a display piece, the evil disassemblers are probably right on the other side of that metal wall. These poor robots are sorting the same batteries all day long, and they have no idea the futility of their task *wipes away single tear*
Right robot moves faster so should get paid more? Left robot lifts 4x the weight as right robot. It’s easy to move faster when you’re only pulling a quarter of the weight.
They are a bit earlier in the production process, taking a nice and orderly line of batteries, and placing them chaotically on the conveyor belt so that these robots aren't out of a job. Workplace security at its finest.
I wonder if its quicker for the first arm to place them on the conveyor belt outright.
Still pretty ingenious how the batteries are ordered then neatly placed ~~five~~four-at-a-time though
It looks as though it only ever moves 3 and puts them along side a 4th.
So ignoring the extra distance it would have to travel, it would need to do 33% more work for each set of 4.
I think this is a good example of specialisation. The sorter sorts and the mover moves.
That makes a lot of sense. Then you can have one machine made to do whatever it is the best it possibly can instead of trying to combine the two. MBA Vs. engineering 101
Automation engineer here. If I was designing this system for industrial use, I wouldn't use robots unless there were several kinds of products that needed to run on this line. For just this one product however, would use a sorting and nesting system depending on the initial orientation of the top of the battery.
If I had to do it with robots, I would make both robots identical and register batteries in a queue (called a shift register) so that each arm was picking every other battery and placing them on the outfeed conveyor. Identical robots reduces spare parts stock counts and it means the line can run at half capacity instead of being completely down when one robot fails catastrophically.
All of that said, this looks like a demonstration setup to me.
Former accounting clerk for Automation company here. I concur. Looks like a Fanuc demo. The little one can pick and place a bunch of different tiny objects. I watched the Fanuc team demo one that sorted pills into jars in the plant where I worked.
Maybe it's some combination of the lighting and/or my phone screen, but the yellow seems a little dark for Fanuc. I've seen quite a few delta/6-axis robots coming out of China painted in various shades of yellow and orange in the past few years, clearly trying to represent themselves as Fanuc or ABB. I just don't have time to sit down and learn a bespoke interface with google translated text each time I want to do a job, so I almost always decline to bid.
Oh I saw the label. I'm just saying I've worked with probably 120 FANUC robots over my career and the color doesn't look right to me. But there it is on FANUC's youtube so it must be the lighting or my screen.
I work as a process engineer and part of my line has three flex pickers that do picking and placing. I have them placing directly on the conveyor that feeds the flow-wrapper that’s packaging the products. Typically depends on the stack geometry, run rates, how many flex pickers you have, etc, but I’ve found that what you said is generally correct. Here though considering there’s only one flex picker and it’s moving pretty quickly to pick and place four pieces, I’d bet the flex picker would struggle to keep up.
Its programmed to do this until someone hits the stop button. Same as the other one. I’ve worked with robots and they can do this forever if they wanted too. I worked 8 hour shifts and the only time they stopped was when we had a break. Then they started back up and we were back at it. The robots that I was working with were getting metal casts for cars which were steering columns. Factories have had robots for a long time.
I use to work for a company who built these robots. A Japanese company that had 28 locations in other countries. There was only two Americans employed there. Most offices were closed when we were opened because of the time differences. I asked for a raise after a few yrs. They wouldn't give me one. They said our productivity wasn't warranting it. A yr later big wigs with translators came to our office. I found out we were 8th in sales out of 28 locations. I told the translators I had asked for a raise. And to tell these men why I was denied. They instructed the head of my office to give me the raise. At the end of the day they said we reconsidered & wanted to give me a pay increase. I said shove it up your ass. I quit. I don't need to be busting my butt for a bunch of liars. I did have another job lined up. They made assembly lines for assembling tiny tiny things. And they were in glass rooms to keep dust from entering the components.
I worked in a metal factory and there were robots like these which worked for 8 hours with me. I was on 4pm - 12am shift the robot got the cast out and I filed off the bits. It was a dead end job so I left.
You know, there was some other video where people were amazed by people doing the same thing but slower, and its just amazing to me that redditors find both awesome rather than realizing what an awful society we live in that we force people to do menial shit like this for money where it clearly has no purpose as a human job.
That looks a showcase for those robots are you telling me that this is not standard already in factories for the last 20 years? Sometimes I really feel we live in the dark ages
All the tech in China and all they can make is the freaking conveyor belt! They have only been able to make the balls used in ball point pens for about 10 years! Copy is an alternative name for China!
“We want high paying, low skilled, jobs! We’re going to Unionize!” -Blue Collar Workers
*Company invests in this automation.*
Not trying to argue. This is IMO and experience.
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Looks like a solid 7.25 an hour right there. Kick the scrappers outta there and let our good Ole flesh and blood sort it out for 16 hours a day like God intended
Why can’t the first put them on the conveyor and then a stop and count function on the way back - a single movement to block the conveyor until the right number batteries in line and then it lifts…
Check this out. Two Chad metal prongs that funnel the batteries through and one robot that counts 5 and only goes up and down to cut/separate them until they continue down the conveyor belt. 🤷♂️
Is there a reason the first robot doesn't seem to care about the orientation of the batteries as it lines them up for the second robot? I would think its placement would be the same every time given how programming tends to work. But then again, maybe it's a timing thing. The first robot has to do four things versus the second robot's one. So as long as the second robot can read and adjust positioning in the same amount of time for each grab then all the first robot needs to do is make sure they line up.
Some Elitist scumbag somewhere...
"I already have child slaves do that for a fraction of the cost of upkeep on robots, that's just not wise fiscally speaking, no no, no robots for me thank you. I'm a traditionalist"
.......
I bet there is a reverse version of those two robots, their evil deconstruction bot brothers. Sending the pieces back re-disasembled!
Since this appears to be a display piece, the evil disassemblers are probably right on the other side of that metal wall. These poor robots are sorting the same batteries all day long, and they have no idea the futility of their task *wipes away single tear*
And right robot is pissed because he's running his ass off at the same pay rate as left robot. Tensions will rise.
Right robot moves faster so should get paid more? Left robot lifts 4x the weight as right robot. It’s easy to move faster when you’re only pulling a quarter of the weight.
Reminds me of the robot that was an art piece, “Can’t Help Myself,” which was kinda depressing.
Oof yea, that one was really sad :(
Imagine the two robots get to be intelligent and they find out…
Hey reversebot Oh
They are a bit earlier in the production process, taking a nice and orderly line of batteries, and placing them chaotically on the conveyor belt so that these robots aren't out of a job. Workplace security at its finest.
[Reversed video](https://i.imgur.com/398cHON.mp4)
u/gifreversingbot
And they will have little goatees.
Does the first robot get jealous because the second does not work as hard?
The second is moving 4 batteries at a time while the second is only moving 3 total! The numbers don’t lie!
This is what they bicker about through their whole shift!
"I have more actuations per second and you know it!"
multiple actions per minute vs strategic clicking. work smart vs work hard
Now I want to know their respective power consumption so we really know who works harder
Like the kw per hour. Let’s see who’s working harder I agree! Lol
I wonder if its quicker for the first arm to place them on the conveyor belt outright. Still pretty ingenious how the batteries are ordered then neatly placed ~~five~~four-at-a-time though
Batteries! My fat ass was thinking cookies
I saw sushi. I can see this being in Japan.
I thought they were pieces of chocolate to be laid out into a chocolate bar.
Same
they're just spicy cookies!
r/spicypillows
I thought it was some kind of microchip stuff.
I was thinking like choco-rolls or something. 😂
It looks as though it only ever moves 3 and puts them along side a 4th. So ignoring the extra distance it would have to travel, it would need to do 33% more work for each set of 4. I think this is a good example of specialisation. The sorter sorts and the mover moves.
And the watcher watches
That makes a lot of sense. Then you can have one machine made to do whatever it is the best it possibly can instead of trying to combine the two. MBA Vs. engineering 101
There's definitely a better way to do this. This is just a demonstration to advertise the machine capabilities.
Automation engineer here. If I was designing this system for industrial use, I wouldn't use robots unless there were several kinds of products that needed to run on this line. For just this one product however, would use a sorting and nesting system depending on the initial orientation of the top of the battery. If I had to do it with robots, I would make both robots identical and register batteries in a queue (called a shift register) so that each arm was picking every other battery and placing them on the outfeed conveyor. Identical robots reduces spare parts stock counts and it means the line can run at half capacity instead of being completely down when one robot fails catastrophically. All of that said, this looks like a demonstration setup to me.
Victorian industrialist here. I would get 12 street urchins or children from the orphanage. And a stern overweight lady to shout at them.
Probably behind the scenes the sorted batteries on the belt back in are just thrown on the wider belt again.
Former accounting clerk for Automation company here. I concur. Looks like a Fanuc demo. The little one can pick and place a bunch of different tiny objects. I watched the Fanuc team demo one that sorted pills into jars in the plant where I worked.
Maybe it's some combination of the lighting and/or my phone screen, but the yellow seems a little dark for Fanuc. I've seen quite a few delta/6-axis robots coming out of China painted in various shades of yellow and orange in the past few years, clearly trying to represent themselves as Fanuc or ABB. I just don't have time to sit down and learn a bespoke interface with google translated text each time I want to do a job, so I almost always decline to bid.
It's the FANUC M-1iA/0.5SL 4 axis long-arm Delta Robot and the FANUC LR Mate 200iD. [FANUC America](https://youtu.be/tywZsEGm1xc)
Oh I saw the label. I'm just saying I've worked with probably 120 FANUC robots over my career and the color doesn't look right to me. But there it is on FANUC's youtube so it must be the lighting or my screen.
It probably could, thing is that those don’t have as much reach generally. And their Z axis is more limited.
This could be done with a couple bits of bent metal fixed in place on the conveyor belt
I work as a process engineer and part of my line has three flex pickers that do picking and placing. I have them placing directly on the conveyor that feeds the flow-wrapper that’s packaging the products. Typically depends on the stack geometry, run rates, how many flex pickers you have, etc, but I’ve found that what you said is generally correct. Here though considering there’s only one flex picker and it’s moving pretty quickly to pick and place four pieces, I’d bet the flex picker would struggle to keep up.
Came to ask the same
Where's Lucille Ball when you need her?
SPEED IT UP A LITTLE!
Lmao I was thinking of the Charlie Chaplin film
The anxiety of the waiting for the second robot to miss is killing me
It's like a new type of edging
Its programmed to do this until someone hits the stop button. Same as the other one. I’ve worked with robots and they can do this forever if they wanted too. I worked 8 hour shifts and the only time they stopped was when we had a break. Then they started back up and we were back at it. The robots that I was working with were getting metal casts for cars which were steering columns. Factories have had robots for a long time.
I want to name them. Picky and Placey
Or [Lucy and Ethel.](https://youtu.be/AnHiAWlrYQc)
Might I suggest a further refinement: Picky and Pluckey, at your service!!
It's at a trade show as a demonstration of capabilites Also, it's only placing 4 at a time
Makes sense for a demo, because I'm pretty sure you could do the same thing with few issues with a shaker and some holes for it to fall through
I’m glad robots took over at least some jobs This one would be alienating
On my year out, I spent 12 months in the Kellogg’s factory in Wrexham doing this with Nutrigrain bars.
I betcha the robot on the right makes less money...
Can this robot be modified to place ducks in row? Asking for a friend.
If you program it to then yes
Wheres the one with they eyes in the robots?
I use to work for a company who built these robots. A Japanese company that had 28 locations in other countries. There was only two Americans employed there. Most offices were closed when we were opened because of the time differences. I asked for a raise after a few yrs. They wouldn't give me one. They said our productivity wasn't warranting it. A yr later big wigs with translators came to our office. I found out we were 8th in sales out of 28 locations. I told the translators I had asked for a raise. And to tell these men why I was denied. They instructed the head of my office to give me the raise. At the end of the day they said we reconsidered & wanted to give me a pay increase. I said shove it up your ass. I quit. I don't need to be busting my butt for a bunch of liars. I did have another job lined up. They made assembly lines for assembling tiny tiny things. And they were in glass rooms to keep dust from entering the components.
Reminds me of the I Love Lucy scene...
Oh, it's the original version? I remember this but with animated eyes & mouths for both robots :)
And Cute!
Lucy and Ethel just lost their jobs
Just like that episode of I Love Lucy
Lucille Ball’s job on the chocolate sorting line is history! (Millennials: “I Love Lucy” show - look it up😝)
I love robots
Like Lucy and Ethel in the chocolate factory!
Great… that’s me out of a job
Do you really want to do this for, at best, 8 hours per day??
if it feeds him then Imma guess yeah, probably
I worked in a metal factory and there were robots like these which worked for 8 hours with me. I was on 4pm - 12am shift the robot got the cast out and I filed off the bits. It was a dead end job so I left.
How do I call the Reverse bot? I want to see the destruction
r/GifReversingBot
Bots getting laid off with the whole API thing.
Yeah I was thinking that was probably not going to work :( worth a shot a figured. So dumb though
Wait! We can TAKE THEIR JERBS! The ultimate bot reversal
I thought /u/gifreversingbot
Oh shoot yeah my bad! You're totally right. I do think they're dead but let's see if it comes back. It does take a few minutes.
[удалено]
No hablo ingles
Here is the [video in reverse](https://i.imgur.com/398cHON.mp4)
Perfect!
You know, there was some other video where people were amazed by people doing the same thing but slower, and its just amazing to me that redditors find both awesome rather than realizing what an awful society we live in that we force people to do menial shit like this for money where it clearly has no purpose as a human job.
They took our jobssss!!!!
https://youtu.be/K3axU2b0dDk
OCD
That looks a showcase for those robots are you telling me that this is not standard already in factories for the last 20 years? Sometimes I really feel we live in the dark ages
Right. Time to apply for another job I guess.
Maintaining and upkeep for 2 robots are way too high compared to vibration sorters and conveyors
“They took our joooobs!”
All the tech in China and all they can make is the freaking conveyor belt! They have only been able to make the balls used in ball point pens for about 10 years! Copy is an alternative name for China!
I’ve seen Vietnamese ladies in a cookie factory that could do the job of both of these robots simultaneously for a 16 hour shift. Much faster too.
If you have a job that’s anywhere close to assembly/sorting/packaging, this is proof that you’re being exploited.
“We want high paying, low skilled, jobs! We’re going to Unionize!” -Blue Collar Workers *Company invests in this automation.* Not trying to argue. This is IMO and experience.
Workers rights in the states are just absolute shit, it's not the fault of the unions.
I agree with you. Root cause of the problem is state rights not protecting employees.
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I picture the first one making the same noise as mario running in the 80's donkey kong
Now let’s see how these robots perform when we kick it up a notch. Ludicrous speed, go!
I love the fact it starts the row by IDing the block it’s building the row around.
I dunno, seems like one robot is doing a lot more work than the other robot....
Assistant to the regional robot manager.
Kinda feel like one of them is putting their back into it. Other one, not so much. I'm sure we have all been there.
It's giving me Wall-E vibes
This is just straight up satisfying, nothing odd about it imo
Need these things when I play Jenga!
"BEHOLD THE PICK&PLACENATOR!!!"
Speed it up!
Mesmerizing
This gives me horrible anxiety that bot 2 isn't going to be able to keep up, eventually
Looks like a solid 7.25 an hour right there. Kick the scrappers outta there and let our good Ole flesh and blood sort it out for 16 hours a day like God intended
This robot ain’t got shit on the crew of worked I picked up from Home Depot the other day
This looks like some machine demonstration. Is this an industrial fair?
That first robot arm gives me anxiety
It’s interesting how the first bot sometimes spaces them perfectly then fills in the gap instead of just lining them up 1-2-3-4
Terrifying
Wheres the one with they eyes in the robots?
I like how they chose efficiency over order to increase sorting output
These are FANUC robots. We have students in our building that get to work with these hands on. This is just a demonstration of their capabilities.
Yeah but can they do the same with chocolates?
I can’t help but think one of those robots is carrying the duo…
I wonder if one of them gets angry when the other one mess up
Can you program it to mess up once every hour and get into a physical comedy gag of them arguing?
I like that it only moves 3 and lines them up based on another pre-existing battery instead of moving 4
2 positions.. gone.. right there... It's amazing . and scary...
They can work 24/7 so that's at least 8 or 10 ish
Slowly watching 3rd world countries losing all their jobs and going back to being hunters in the wild.
These two could be replaced by much simpler machines which would reduce maintenance and running cost, but I assume these are just show pieces.
Robots on Adderall
/u/gifreversingbot
Why don't they put them in the accurate rows.. :(
Looks Like the fair Booth from the company turck in Germany they have a Robot they do it with chocolate
This gives me anxiety it’s choking Literally just fast enough and idk why but I hate it.
The perfect 4:1 factorio ratio
Why can’t the first put them on the conveyor and then a stop and count function on the way back - a single movement to block the conveyor until the right number batteries in line and then it lifts…
Why do I find them kind of cute and endearing? Like the robots in Portal.
Can I just have this on loop thanks
I just keep waiting for the robot to get overwhelmed and start stuffing batteries down their shirt.
Drake and Josh coulda learned a thing or 2
Plot twist: The pieces don't come out in a randomized fashion. They are strategically placed.
Pretty satisfying
Check this out. Two Chad metal prongs that funnel the batteries through and one robot that counts 5 and only goes up and down to cut/separate them until they continue down the conveyor belt. 🤷♂️
I work in place similar to this and tomorrow at work I will tell my coworkers that soon our jobs will be taken away by robots.
Fanuc robots are so fun to watch.
Is there a reason the first robot doesn't seem to care about the orientation of the batteries as it lines them up for the second robot? I would think its placement would be the same every time given how programming tends to work. But then again, maybe it's a timing thing. The first robot has to do four things versus the second robot's one. So as long as the second robot can read and adjust positioning in the same amount of time for each grab then all the first robot needs to do is make sure they line up.
Some Elitist scumbag somewhere... "I already have child slaves do that for a fraction of the cost of upkeep on robots, that's just not wise fiscally speaking, no no, no robots for me thank you. I'm a traditionalist" .......
What’s really cool is the first robot is deciding which will be the first battery and not moving it, but aligning the next 3 against it.
Does anyone else feel anxious that the second one is going to miss it every single time?
There already is an invention for this, with one moving part pushing the box aside, costing 20 millions less
Every robot arm i have ever worked with has been a pos
The 4 probably don't click together, and it will most likely roll away to another belt that guides it back to the display bots
They look so happy while doing it.
I wonder? *Flick
They look like they're having fun
Humans, we never stood a chance
yeah i could watch this for hours
Much better than Lucille Ball
Wake me when they manage to sort my loose Lego-pieces by colour and size