[minnesota_bound]

#13 They will use a different power source in the future. When it malfunctions there tends to be a major malfunction.
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[blackdog]

"They will use a different power source in the future"

A nickel for every time that's been said, and I'd be a millionaire.

Unless you bring the weight, CG, and other forces down significantly, you are looking at about 2.3 amps per axis @460VAC. Considering there are about sixty axises on this robot system, you are talking about 120 amps at 460 VAC. That's 95.609204578 Kilowatts.

Unless your future power system includes it's own nuclear reactor, the only way this thing is going anywhere is on a #6 AWG four conductor stranded cable and on a servo cable with about 400 #22 AWG stranded feedback wires. IOW, it's wire cable will weigh about 200 pounds for every thirty feet.

[blackdog]

A malfunction with a 96.something killowatts draw is going to be quite a malfunction, leaving an arc flash (vaporizing everything because it’s hotter than the sun) within about an eight feet radius.