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Re: High speed automated robot arm
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:15:03 GMT
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Iain:

It definitely sounds like your site was the one I recall. I thought they
were amazing and was interested in experimenting with something similar. I
look forward to seeing them on your site again soon.

Thanks

David


In lugnet.robotics, Iain Hendry writes:
> "D. Cuthill" <dave.cuthill@computalog.com> wrote in message
> news:GKr38J.C0p@lugnet.com...
> 
> > A year or two ago I came across a website that had a number of videos
> > demonstrating different types of lego robot arms or "assembly" robots that
> > did things like move 3 balls to different positions very rapidly similar • to
> > the types of robotic arms you seem in automobile manufacturing. I have • lost
> > the link to this site and was wondering if this sounds familar to anyone • and
> > if they have the address.
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> I think you're refering to my cartesian robots. I had a whole series of
> cartesian (linear) robots moving white marbles, with videos. They were named
> robot7, robot12, etc... (1 through about 23).
> 
> Unfortunatley for the moment I've removed all those videos from my server.
> :( I'm still in the process of "upgrading" my webpage to host all the videos
> again.
> 
> The robots were inspired by the robots that we make at work.
> 
> www.ventax.com
> 
> We build cartesian robots for the injection plastics industry to remove
> parts from machines. The robots sit on top of the fixed platen of the IMM
> and reach into the mould to fetch the part, then remove it and transport it
> to either an offload conveyor or any other piece of auxilary automation.
> 
> When I saw the subject line of this message, I was excited that someone else
> was doing high-speed pick and place with LEGO. :)
> 
>    Iain



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"D. Cuthill" <dave.cuthill@computalog.com> wrote in message news:GKr38J.C0p@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) lost (...) and (...) Hi David, I think you're refering to my cartesian robots. I had a whole series of cartesian (linear) robots moving white (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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