1. uh... link please?

Posted at 10:56PM on Jan 16th 2008 by andrew

2. ditto. link?

Posted at 11:02PM on Jan 16th 2008 by aperson

3. Dammit. Fixed.

Posted at 11:03PM on Jan 16th 2008 by Will O'Brien

4. no worries, my apologies for sounding a bit jerk-ish in my previous comment. anyway i must say that is one awesome set up, i love their (quasi?) 3D trajectory program, not to mention the footage from that HD camera "rental" :)

Posted at 12:04AM on Jan 17th 2008 by andrew

5. Awesome! Man that was so funny. The true way robots were intended to be used.

Posted at 1:25AM on Jan 17th 2008 by greg

6. this is jackass meets mythbusters
well done!

Posted at 1:59AM on Jan 17th 2008 by Frogz

7. I can imagine the conversation:

"$ROBOT_COMPANY, how can I help you?"

"Hi, I'm using one of your robots to throw bowling balls an an RV, only I'm not getting enough range... Can you tell me how to get some more 'oomph' out of it?"

"..."

Great hack.

Posted at 4:39AM on Jan 17th 2008 by herbicide

8. nice hack! according to local university legend, some dumbasses in a robotic class once managed to send a position command with a negative z component to one of these robots, which then tried to smash through the floor and finally tore itself out of its mounting.. so beware ;-)

Posted at 5:36AM on Jan 17th 2008 by floe

9. That university legend is true.

What happens almost yearly is people smashing through tables because of wrongly inputed Z components.

Posted at 9:04AM on Jan 17th 2008 by Jordan

10. Link http://manapotions.com/robopult.html

Posted at 9:20AM on Jan 17th 2008 by Greg

11. firing carrots at bunny was a nice touch. painful, too

Posted at 10:11AM on Jan 17th 2008 by jim

12. That sir, was quite possibly the most awesome use of an industrial robot ever!

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Posted at 1:26PM on Jan 17th 2008 by Digital

13. If only our robotic arms did that in the factory I work at. Best we can do is sling boxes of toothpaste from side to side.

Posted at 1:27PM on Jan 17th 2008 by Mike M.

14. But really... What else are you gonna do with an industrial arm? "Uh... how can we make it go faster?"

Posted at 1:46PM on Jan 17th 2008 by phnx

15. Looking pretty Hot Eli!!

Posted at 2:03PM on Jan 17th 2008 by Adriana

16. very entertaining

Posted at 7:46PM on Jan 17th 2008 by Optimus Prime + 1

17. i want an industrial robot to play with.

Posted at 7:55PM on Jan 17th 2008 by Dirk

18. "What happens almost yearly is people smashing through tables because of wrongly inputed Z components."

Not necessarily a negative Z component, but I remember having to input angles for the base motor and if you did not properly reset the robot to a well known initial position then all angles will be off. Yes- there were deep scratch marks in our table because of it...

Posted at 2:57PM on Jan 18th 2008 by Marco

19. R.I.P.
Robert Williams (c. 1954 – January 25, 1979)

Posted at 11:34PM on Jan 18th 2008 by Kelsey

20. It almost looks like a Cloose robot welder. I used to run some of those.

Posted at 2:51AM on Jan 19th 2008 by Brotherred