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Re: KUKA got there first... :(
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Mon, 19 Nov 2001 15:30:12 GMT
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If you want to ride on somethng like that, you should go to space camp
canada in montreal. They have a shuttle mock-up (only the front quarter,
but real size) with a "canadarm" in the back, with a seat on the end. Of
course, it doesnt go very fast (floor to 10 meter ceiling in about 10-15
seconds), and if it did, it would probably hit stuff and kill the person in
it.
Rebel Transcanner wrote:
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> http://www.oxford.net/~hendryjr/temp/KUKA/
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> (6 images)
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> KUKA just premiered this at IAAPA, a huge amusement industry convention held
> every year in the US. It's their KR 500 robot (from what I can tell), which
> was the first articulated to throw around 500 kg mass, plus seats provided
> by Wieland Schwarzkopf, GmbH.
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> Two years ago I proposed offhandedly that Ventax, the robot company I work
> for, should try attaching my office chair to the EOAT plate on our L-type
> robot ( http://www.ventax.com/l.html ) as it's suitable for payloads of
> about 100 kg. The first time I saw an LM-MX (slightly smaller L-type), I
> knew I had to ride it. Of course, I don't have some exciting story about
> sneaking in after-hours and powering up the robot and going for a whirl. But
> it's sort of been a joke every time we build a big robot now that "Iain will
> want to ride it."
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> But KUKA got there first.
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> I've talked to someone who talked to someone who rode it in Germany at the
> plant, and reportedly it's just unbeliveable. Can you imagine the ride that
> can do, be, or make you feel *anything*, with virtually no limitations? Can
> you imagine feeling as though you're on the tip of the Samauri's blade, as
> he carves majestic profiles in the air?
>
> Iain
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