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Its very common for plant operators to do 'rounds' and inspect gauges that are not digital because they are not usually terribly important, because the gauge pr
by idiotsecant 3y ago
Its very common for plant operators to do 'rounds' and inspect gauges that are not digital because they are not usually terribly important, because the gauge provides a backup to the electronic reading, etc.
Put this on a 'spot' robot from Boston dynamics and you have an operator that won't be hurt when there is a steam leak, or whatever.
There are definitely use cases.
- Workaccount2 3y agoIt would be even more trivial to just have cameras and a human who can quickly scroll through the different cams to check the gauges. The question is how much you trust this vision system, not whether or not you still need a guy to do rounds.
- idiotsecant 3y agoNo, fixed cameras have a linear maintenance cost and are subject to all the regular problems fixed infrastructure has. A robot has the same cost whether it spends all day walking in circles or doing rounds.
- Workaccount2 3y agoYou would probably have to pay for 80 years of "camera maintenance" before you met the cost of 1 robot.
- icecoffee 3y agoThe cv reading here is really a POC base on off-the-self and will require some work. Fix-camera vs Spot, I can definitely see the pros and cons. So at what price point do you think industry will adopt Spot for doing rounds?