Robotic 50# feed bag palletizer

This robot was installed in late Feb 2008 when it was about 15 degrees F outside and 0-10 degrees F in the warehouse this robot is operating in! If you look closely you will see everybody wearing their coveralls and trying to stay warm! I say that to say this. This company had a couple of employees who spent 8 hours a day lifting 50lb bags and placing them on pallets in sometimes sub-zero temperatures...and in the summer in 90+ degree temperatures. Now they can have those employees working in much more comfortable conditions and only have to brave the cold or heat when it's time to pull a pallet out and replace it.

The astute observer will notice that there are no safety fences on this cell, well there will be! Right now safety is being achieved by some warning lines on the floor and the various light curtains, axis range monitoring, and laser scanners mounted in the cell, but a hard fence is being put up and should be complete soon.

This cell has to palletize many different sizes of bags, and it does it through algebraic programming. The operator only has to specify the dimensions of the bag and the program will write itself! It is a robust, hard-working robot that will never complain about the hot, cold or a sore back!

Enjoy!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• robot
• robotic
• kuka
• palletizer
• pallet
• electronics
• gadget
• mechanics
• feed
• bag
• 50
• lb
• automatic
• conveyor

[encobotics]

Well Peace, its a little known fact that I am a robot, I was programmed to be infallible

[hirosheridan]

Pretty cool Mark! Have you been back to ORU to present your robots? - Dr. Lang

[encobotics]

We were there last fall I think to give a presentation on some of our earlier robots. It might have been Spring...not sure. We haven't been down since the new ones have been up and running, but we will try to this year. So far we have tried to come down for a seminar at least once a year, and someday I'd like to start making it once a Semester.

[tomlecter]

este pinche robot, es mucho mas rapido, y evidentemente mas poderoso, felicidades a los creadores

[peacemonopoly]

Awesome dude. Wow. How did you get sooo smart?