Flexpickers stacking pancakes

[maxparadoxx]

Cool video

[Dreadfun1k]

I had no idea there was pre-packaged pancakes

[MrKayakFisho]

OM NOM NOM NOM NOM

[Dri143]

FOOOODASSSSEEE

[younoooob]

i wonder how the machines know how many are stacked

[Serotis]

just amazing, really.

[nave111]

how does it pick them up? stabbing them? grasping them? or some kind of vacum?

[RGLumaAutomation]

@nave111

A Vortex minimum contact gripper - ie blown air over an aerofoil shape to create 'lift' at the centre of the vortex - rather than vacuum which would damage the pancakes.

[muzzicplayer]

im hungry

[eldisturbio]

That is a brilliant and mesmerising robot. I'm going to look at wrapped stacks of pancakes on supermarket shelves in a different light now. :-)

[RGLumaAutomation]

@eldisturbio

Thank you :-)

[mcclanahoochie]

Song = "In Between" - Leo Der Stapanians. You are welcome.

[dexterpointexter]

its the same method spammers and phishers use! Go firewall!

[dexterpointexter]

i used to GO ROBOT like that. I guess i was right. ROBOT style works better.

[chinesekid05]

holy shit XD it even knows which pancakes are the bad ones.

[Wrebble]

Oh... That music has been used in "In Between - The Ladylovely " to : )

[Wrebble]

Hello!

For you,who are searching for song,there isn't longer one. Put the name is

In Between by Leo Der Stapanians

[amirof]

WTF?! this thing is amazing

[makkanZor]

PANNCAKES!

[halffade]

I'm jealous of the smart person who invented this smart machine :P

[eerereps]

I'm telling you man! that's just a talented application of pogramming and embedded systems!

[Shillianth]

I always find it amazing that some one (or group of people) thought *I know! A machine to automatically stack the pancakes. We can split it up in to X many sections across Y width and then have it so that it can calculate this and that to make the perfect stacks!"

[arandompotato32]

Song?

[erasmo559]

KOOL-AID!

[OIVIG]

none knows the music? anyone finds out pm Thanks

[Merdam9]

They missed a few.

[scotfever]

thats crazy

[Expiredjelly]

That machine is really neat, how does it "know" where a pancake is to pick it up? As far as I can tell, it looks like the pancakes are lined up randomly.

[2011masssuicide]

It has sensors which allow it to "see" where pancake is.

[RGLumaAutomation]

There is a camera in front of each robot's working area - As the pancakes pass through they are photographed and their position on the conveyor is stored and tracked - The software then gives the robot the coordinates for each pancake position and the robot moves there and picks.

[xenatikkanen]

The way the flexpicker robot does this is kind of wacky! It is weird how "he" goes back and forth with the pancake stacking. It's like the robot machine has OCD! hehe So cool!

[MirunikSweetie]

o_o it's really amazing when u compare the cavemen with ...no not the robots xDthe ones that created the robots. o.o amazing o.o

[Fargurd]

Mh, in some years human workers will be unnessecary, that's real advance :-(

[RGLumaAutomation]

I take your point but actually automation in this factory allowed the business to expand and more workers were employed as a result.

In the UK automation is the only way a lot of manufacturing businesses can compete with the low cost economies.

[mr1001nights]

substituting workers w/machines has very interesting political results. Check this out /watch?v=dyqPUvL3MZo

[fornello123]

I didn't know you could buy packaged pancakes.  do these go to 7-11s or something?

[Stretchmancando]

You can buy packaged pancakes in the freezer section of any grocery store. Aunt Jemima is one of the best and if you nuke them properly they are delicious!

[squall787]

Yes I also would like to know what song is being played.

[LunchAnderson]

I'd guess it's a song by some anonymous person produced exclusively for this demonstration. But it's good.

[RGLumaAutomation]

The sound track was a song taken from You Tube's soundtrack selection menu. I'm afraid I didn't note artist or title - sorry!

[Harshmage]

Music source?

[Gearshock]

Agreed, where is this awesome track from?

[streomoene]

who are those ominous figures in the lab coats?

[Toribor]

They are the pancake lords!

[LunchAnderson]

What about the pancakes that weren't stacked? Did they do something wrong?

[mac0nhero]

there's probably a limit to the number of pancakes per stack, so if all the stacks within its range are full, the remaining just keep going

[LunchAnderson]

Sounds reasonable.

[RGLumaAutomation]

Partly True - If the production line runs at above capacity then this will happen (the system picks at about 440 a minute flat out). However the vision system is looking for correctly sized pancakes and will ignore oversize, undersize or wrong shape.