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The robotic technology involved here is decades old. What they're doing that's new is designing for manufacture using modern materials. That robot arm is prob
by Accujack 7y ago
The robotic technology involved here is decades old. What they're doing that's new is designing for manufacture using modern materials.
That robot arm is probably an off the shelf part.
- rtkwe 7y agoIt's off the shelf, it's a Kuka arm but the arm itself isn't the interesting bit. It's integrating the 3 arms, the print head, and the rotary table. I've programmed an older one of those arms and it was no cake walk and my program was to just do the Towers of Hanoi as a demo. [0] [0] It's a pretty simple demo because it can just be done as a simple set of calculated linear motions. The only real trick was that the version of the language it was using didn't support recursion.