r/machinesinaction • u/Bodzio1981 • 11d ago
The Robot with vision system
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u/LafayetteLa01 11d ago
It doesn’t get tired and doesn’t require OSHA approved 30 Min. Meal breaks. Awe but, but it does require a maintenance team to do predictive and preventative maintenance, it requires Automation techs and field engineers. It may require third party software and inventoried parts in the event of a failure. So, automation?
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u/misterdidums 11d ago
I’d rather do that than haul bags
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u/Aware-Tailor7117 10d ago
That’s the problem. The 5 people who would conceivably loose jobs will not be the 3 hired for robot maintenance.
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u/misterdidums 10d ago
Unless they receive training! Which should be subsidized using the tax revenue generated by the increased productivity. But, it probably won’t be. That revenue will instead pad the pocket of an ethically bankrupt politician in return for favors for a billionaire.
That’s the real problem, not the robot.
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u/Aware-Tailor7117 9d ago
Completely agree. That’s why communities get left behind. Look at the rust belt…
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u/SpiritedRain247 11d ago
Preventative maintenance? This some kind of joke.
Managers will put off any and all maintenance then complain when the machine is down for ages waiting on parts when it could've been down for maybe a few hours.
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u/IDatedSuccubi 10d ago
Our whole factory is designed around letting nobody pick up weight of more than 10 kg so that's exactly what we do, we have a whole staff of different vendor engineers on site 24/5
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u/tsarver618 11d ago
Are we just gonna ignore the huge spikes/talons used for picking up the item
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u/AutisticIcelandic98 11d ago
the bags are emptied anyway, I don't see an issue with it in this particular job.
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u/Alarming_Airport_613 11d ago
May just be vacuum pipes
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u/rzaapie 11d ago
They are spikes that are pushed into the bag and then rotated inward to grip it. Very common way to grip bags of product like that.
Not really a safety issue as this robot will need to be behind a fence to operate anyway.
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u/lost-thought-in 10d ago
It depends if people pull the key and carry it with them when entering the cage. I've had coworkers open the gate and not noticed the chain to the gate sensor broke, he was doing a tool change and only saved he's ass by turning off the robot call on the lathe before the door opened. Older story from before I worked there a different cell had the gate sensor bolted to the door not chained so the key remated when the door swing shut, then someone though the robot just errored out and pressed resume, I think it broke the maintenance guys back. The force settings was low enough it didn't push through him but those robots have the strength to do so.
Overall a robot doing this job will save a lot of backs, shoulders, wrists, and lungs as factories tend to slowly kill the people working in them.
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u/rzaapie 10d ago
Yeah people should practise LOTOTO with machines, but not everything is up to that standard. Also when a chain on any safety related device breaks the safety circuit should never be able to be completed. Shit happens though, and systems get bridged, leading to accidents like that.
Safety standards are written in blood. And while they may be cumbersome at times and slow down work, it beats not dying or injuring yourself or someone else.
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u/PrestigiousEnd8726 11d ago
I'm afraid that we will become the bags at some point. What a terrible way to go.
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u/thedudefromsweden 11d ago
Do we call cameras "vision system" now?
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u/woodbanger04 11d ago
Are your eyes the only component in your visual perception? Vision systems are comprised of multiple cameras and a processing system that tells the computer what is in its field of view. Just like your eyes receive light and your brain processes this telling another part of your brain what is in your field of view. I hope this helps.
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u/thedudefromsweden 11d ago
Sure, just feels like a fancy way of saying it has cameras. Of course there is more than cameras, they are useless without a computer interpreting them.
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u/Alarming_Airport_613 11d ago
Doesn’t have to be cameras even. Lasers that measure distance/depth may be at play here instead
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u/ProofHorseKzoo 11d ago
Pretty sure it’s more complex than just a camera. There are usually other sensors / lasers involved.
Not sure what the point of OP’s video is though… Most modern production equipment uses vision systems to scan and detect that correct components are being used. This is not new tech at all. It’s not like these robotics were ever just running blind.
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u/The_Infinite_Carrot 11d ago
If you work in the industry, yes. I’m a programmer for a large factory and robots with cameras on are about as common as it gets. The camera’s image is calibrated so each pixel relates to a known distance value or coordinate. The camera program also finds corners/edges/holes/patterns etc that have been taught to a master image. The robot program has variables that are sent from the camera to fill in the target positions so it knows where to go. So although most would just call it a camera, the addition of the software that analyses the image, and the feedback to the robot is considered a ‘vision system’.
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u/smurb15 11d ago
It's like the national dumb down has started because I've seen some stupid posts explaining what it is like a 5 year old. Like the whole of reddit is turning into eli5
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u/woodbanger04 11d ago
I am not really sure what you are trying to refer to here. Do you understand what the robot camera is supposed to be looking at?
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u/flanksteakfan82 9d ago
Or… Robot WITH A vision… to annihilate humanity on an assembly line this exact same way
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u/Ok_Advisor_9873 11d ago
Well there goes 4-5 jobs!