Flexpickers stacking pancakes

RG Luma have recently installed 2 lines of four ABB IRB360 flexpickers each of which take randomly distributed pancakes from a conveyor and stack them to a predefined (selectable) stack pattern on a central conveyor and transports the stacks to a flow wrapper for outer wrapping. Each system is working at around 450 ppm. Future lines are being designed and built to cope with a multitude of different products. Call +44 1905 753700 for further details.

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[nave111]

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

[RGLumaAutomation]

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.

[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]

Thank you :-)

[Ted B]

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.

[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.

[halffade]

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

[Chris McClanahan]

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

[JeredtheShy]

This is only impressive if you don't know that two old Mexican ladies could do it faster and more efficiently while having a conversation about grandkids. Not actually joking. No sick days for the robot, of course, but no sick days for the immigrant, either. They just don't take them.

[TheLemmy Corperations]

How does it know where the Pankcakes are.

[giggle poop]

BEST... ROBOT... EVER!

[Sarah Judd]

Now I think i know why a lot of store bought pancakes have circles on top of them...

[Frieder Bluemle]

Humans!! @1:01

[maxparadoxx]

Cool video

[Dreadfun1k]

I had no idea there was pre-packaged pancakes



[Kayak Man]

OM NOM NOM NOM NOM

[Dri143]

FOOOODASSSSEEE