International Robot Expo 2009 (part 2: pick and place robots) by Alex Kane
Here's part 2 of my videos from the Tokyo International Robot Expo 2009. Part 1 of the series included a few different kinds of robots, whereas this post will be dedicated to one specific breed of 'bot: the pick and place.
Pick and place robots are industrial robots. They're useful for picking things up and putting them back down in a specific place. Some of these guys are really fast and can sort tubes of toothpaste or small chocolates coming down a conveyor belt at high speeds. Other models are used to place components on circuit boards, like this one over at Adafruit.
Now on to the videos!
In this first video we see pieces move down the conveyor belt and these two Epson 'bots pick them up and place them on a second belt. They're pretty quick but even so, the first one sometimes can't grab all the pieces and the second one is there to catch any that the first one misses.
This robot shows us how it can be used to sort small chocolates on a conveyor belt, very quickly.
A fast pick and place robot that takes tubes of toothpaste from one belt and places them on the other, changing the orientation of the tube in-flight so that they line up nicely once placed.
International Robot Expo 2009 (part 1) by Alex Kane
I went to the International Robot Expo in Tokyo last weekend and had a great time. Here's some of my favorite 'bots from the expo. There's a lot of videos so I'm going to split them up in to multiple posts. If you'd like to see everything in one place check the Flickr set.
