Watch: Incredibly versatile active ball-joint gear is mind-bending

New Atlas ^ | September 23, 2024 | Joe Salas

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Wow, that is so cool! I took a couple of classes in kinematics and motion of machines 50 years ago. I cannot imagine how you would begin modeling that motion.

We’ll probably begin seeing robots with smooth, human-like motions.

[Red Badger]

😉😎......................

[blackdog]

At least troubleshooting will go easy. Getting everything back to zero or home will take hours. I just love a master servo motor with as many as hundreds of ethernet connected child axises always impressed me. Master motor homes in safe position. Each axis motor then home to matching safe positions. Then the system moves as one. A failure or crash triggers "Safe-Off". Getting it all back is easy-peezy. The motor control software in Kinetix will even tag the axis that failed and the type of failure.

The only caveat is that your IT Department will have to give a few thousand dedicated (yet kept secret) IP Adresses for each axis for each machine in the entire factory. I had one machine with over 1,700 IP Adresses and 1,150 Axises to control. Cabinets and racks as far as the legs could carry me.

The most common downtime cause was when Kinetix and Poweflex would hit on duplicate IP Addresses. Some nitwit in an office would install his new printer or massaging chair and they would let an "install wizard" program snatch up an IP Address already in use. It may take an hour, day, or week, but when those duplicates check in with the master, you're going down bigly. Then it takes days to find the unauthorized device on the network.

[Jamestown1630]

Well, thanks for the apology, if you feel it’s needed. But I don’t recall the incident...

[Chainmail]

Superb engineering!

[Openurmind]

“Well, thanks for the apology, if you feel it’s needed.”

It was definitely needed. :)

[dadfly]

humm. looks like man trying to copy God again. good luck man (you’ll need it).

[Openurmind]

Thanks for sharing that, that is incredible.

[rlmorel]

That is wild!

[Lazamataz]

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Jamestown1630, this is obviously a very insincere apology, and I recommend you reject it utterly. The only thing that can make things right is a cash settlement of WELL over six figures, and a hot blond co-ed's ministrations as well. Hold out for better things, do not take the first offer from him. I can serve as a kind of arbitrator (for a small 33% fee of course.) Please call me immediately at 1-800-CASH COW.

[bert]

Hear Hear........ applause for a sincere apology

[Openurmind]

Lol... :)

[Openurmind]

It was right. We only have right or wrong in this world. :)

[Jamestown1630]

For numerous reasons, I don’t think I’d be interested in a ‘hot blond co-ed’.

(I hope you’re staying dry.)

[Laslo Fripp]

Mine rotted out at the floor. New England weather. But, the only good use for the Boston Sunday Globe…lay it over the hole and it would keep me dry until Spring. Only $1.00.