@@bc8010 Not any machine, but it can certainly do work on much larger objects than any similarly sized CNC machine, since the object doesn't have to fit _inside_ the machine.
I love the IRB6400! I spent so much time working on these and the older S4 and S4C controllers. We didn't have the USB function, and we had to get really creative when writing our programs to optimize them for space. Great work on this! As always be safe! These robots have the ability to get up to 6m/s! 😵
It's an amazing machine 😁. will do so, haven't gone above 150mm/s yet and milling usually happens at 30-40mm/s so not that much speed but you'll never know with these machines of course.
This is so cool! My first job after university was ABB robotics and I developed the SW controlling the electrical drives for the S4C controller. However, the IRB6000 (later rebranded to 6400 when relaunched with the S4 controller) was designed for spotwelding and outperformed all competition for 1 inch, 2 inch and 5 inch movements between spots. The main challenge was the compact gear boxes with natural frequency far below the frequency of the spotweld moves. Just cutting EPS is a simple job for this great machine!
You gave this robot a second life, that's great! It's so precise, can't believe its repeatability is so fine! Once upon a time, I've designed and made my own desktop cnc mill - I've implemented my university graduation work 10 years after I finished my study. It was an interesting experience. Best regards, Max.
This would be PERFECT for making fiberglass molds! In the yacht industry we have massive 5-axis CNCs that we only cut dense foam on to create a "plug" the plug is then sanded and polished to a mirror finish (with high build primer "duratech"). Then we wax the plug, spray with gel coat, and spray chop strand fiberglass on. From there you lay up additional layers of fiberglass, and once you've pulled the foam and fiberglass apart you have a mold! The foam you cut here is standard styrofoam or what we call 1lb foam. We cut 10lb and 40lb foam as well. For the biggest parts we use the 1lb foam, and do a rough cut (undersized by 1/4") with a huge endmill, then we apply a layer of thick 2 part epoxy putty to the rough cut foam, then we use a smaller ball endmill to do the finish pass. You have an awesome opportunity to start making sweet carbon or fiberglass parts!
Adding a 7th axis (linear track for the robot to move along) gives you a lot of scope for such things. Some yacht builders (there are also specialist plug makers) are doing exactly that using robots.
Isn't 40lb foam incredibly expensive to buy. And I assume heavy. I'm in the process of saving up for a cnc machine to make foam plugs. A robot arm would be killer because of its massive z axis
@@crazyg74 Believe it or not is not all that helpful. Because with a mold you’re still constrained by draft so the part can actually release from the mold.
In Fusion 360 if you haven't, I would look at the smoothing feature within most toolpaths. It limits point density in the program. Makes it easier for slower controllers to keep up with the program. I would do a test with smoothing off and smoothing on set to a value that you deem reasonable and compare the cycle times.
Yes i have experimented with this feature and it reduces the files size by a lot. Also changed the default resolution from 0.1mm to 1mm which is also a huge improvement and barely noticeable on the larger parts, might turn even turn it up for larger parts. I also set the lead in and lead out distances to 0.0, these are arcs and arcs have a lot of points so this is also a huge improvement.
Hi Brian, superb show case of how we can give new purpose to these old machines! We did sort of the same for a irb6400r200-2.8 s4c controller. We’re in the mids of turning it into a large format 3D printer. If you need some info contact me. I can explain more in detail wich components we used for storage and battery upgrades. Also we would love to come in contact with like minded people from around the globe! Regards Marcel
Hey Marcel, thank you for your comment. Would love to get in touch with you. You can send me an email with your information. Email adres can be found on my RUclips channel or my website (see description of this video).
Hi, me and a friend recently became the owners of two IRB6600 robots with IRC5 controllers. We are both finishing our engineering degrees this year so we put the robots in storage for time being but we plan on restoring and recommissioning them early next year. We are still a bit unsure about a few things and we have a lot to learn. It would be nice to be in contact with people who have experience and who would be eager to answer a question now and then. Would you please let me know how I can get in contact with you if you don’t mind.
I have an irb 6400 with an s4c+ controller that I am trying to 3d print with. I would love to connect and see how you are doing it. I have not gotten much past getting the thing running yet.
Dito、epic。Something emotional about sprucing up a retired beast of a robot and bringing it back into service。No doubt its much more capable than we think。
That's what was used at my old workplace (Automobile industry) to machine the cockpits of cars. Literally robots like this (just a bit smaller) who could machine all around the part, just in all axes :))
The 6400 series are built like a tank. I programmed and operated 2 of these at work since 2000. They ran at 3-4 meters/second lifting up to 90 pound parts 24 hours per day, 7 days per week with little issues. The would pace parts on a machine spindle with +/- .0025" accuracy. The motion sensitivity makes them relatively safe to work around, and they have welding software for oscillation. We used Schunk grippers on ours.
@@CoolAsFreya I meant in terms of overdoing task at hand, and its capabilities. Not about precision. Simple 3D mill with couple nema 17 and aluminium extrusions would cut this foam just as easily. Hell, even a 3D printed robotic arm would do the trick and cost 10 times less at least.
@@zonemyparkour they may just be using foam for testing and may use other materials later. There is a very good chance that a 3D printed robot arm won’t be as precise as this unless you spend a lot on proper gearboxes but you still have to deal with the arm flexing.
@@zonemyparkour true but I don’t believe the hole point of that video is to make the cheapest and easiest way. In my opinion it’s to show that he get it running and can program the Maschine. He can use that Maschine for things much more than a 3d printed home mad arme is capable.
That robot seems in really good condition, we have one very similar at work, in production since 1998. There is a between step Z0 instead of fine or z1. Z1 might round some corners, z0 should not, but neither stop at the point like fine. Nice job with the program conversion !!
@@BrianBrocken Maybe it's only available since S4C+ but you can build your own! Declare a variable of type zonedata in program with a zone like 0.001mm. It's self-explanatory on the teach pendent. Or you edit the BASE.SYS and add something like "CONST zonedata z0 := [FALSE, 0.001, 0.001, 1, 0.001, 1, 0.1];"
Awesome, the accuracy is impressive to say the robots probably got quit a few thousand hours of use previously. I worked and installed large industrial laser cutting machines back in 2000’s , LDV /BYSRONIC , kinda lost touch now but think it’s nice to know there’s people like yourself having a go . 🇬🇧👍. Lots of respect
This is a great project! Much respect! Since I work a lot with CNC machines, I would consider this robot good enough for softer materials. With metal on the other hand you could likely run into problems with shattering.
I bought an old VMC with a punched tape reader. It also had a serial port so I wrote a drip feeder that looks surprisingly similar to yours. But I too had the issue where the controller would only take one command at a time so it had no ability to "merge" the path between commands so it would execute every line of code and stop then start processing the next line. Never did figure out how to fix it or if it was even fixable. Sadly I had to sell it at a loss. Great machine.
Wow, easily the coolest thing I’ve seen on YT this year! Congrats on scoring it and mad props for getting it running again! (And holy moly, 16 *micron* repeatability?!? What kind of encoders does it have? (Even with the encoder on the input shaft and a high ratio on the harmonic drive, it seems insane to me that it can have that level of precision out at the end of the arm, after going through all the joints. Crazy tech!) (And I have no need whatever for such a thing let alone space to put it but I’m still intensely envious 😁)
Thank you very much 😁 i tested the repeatability by going to a far point, making sure all axis moved, and then returning to the test point. Did this about 15 times and 0.016 was the difference between the min and max. I also have no idea how they did this, I occasionally design and 3D-print different type of actuators myself and even getting it to mm level is very hard. Hats of to ABB for making something like this 😉👍
36000 lines encoder is pretty normal stuff, 10x interpolation gives 360000, 360/360000 => 0.001°, which is about 0.017mm/m, about the accuracy that thing has. Also largely depends on whether it's like a knee joint or fully extended in rotation, with knee joint nearly straight, very little change in distance vs encoder angle. Put like a Haimer probe on that thing and test full 3D repeatability ;-) Or ball bar test, put like a ball bearing on a table like in 4:35 and dial indicator into the robot and look for circular error
ABB uses analog resolvers to determine motor shaft angles. The signals from each resolver are evaluated by the Serial Measurement Board (SMB). The SMB also counts motor revolutions and sends the data to the motion controller. This calculates lots of stuff to compensate for mechanical things like flexing or vibration of the robot arm, so you can hit the bulls eye at low speed as well as full throttle.
Admirable skills. Hat off. You give that huge robot a second life, another brain. Thank you for entertaining us and... of course instructing us as well Brian. I subscribed to your wonderful channel
Very nice video, I have to say I thought a robot arm of this size would of been louder, it's very impressive how silent it is. Nice precision as well, I assume all the joints/gears are harmonic?
Thanks man, I was also surprised by the sound (or rather lack of it) it made. You can barely hear it when standing next to it. Yes the gearboxes used in this robot are harmonic. This robot inspired me to design and 3D-print a harmonic drive, just to understand it a bit better 😜 ruclips.net/video/1jqYdFrZqFI/видео.html
@@SetKat-Alex That's really interesting, thanks for the info, I never get to be around robots, i've actually always wondered which ones are louder and quieter. I have some (somewhat affordable) harmonic drives that are FOC driven BLDC motors and they are surprisingly quiet, actually dead silent, it's always impressed me.
@@maxgood42 at full speed, you can only hear the motor drive, but not the reducer at all. We tested an IRB 460 with a 25kg box (that's nothing for the robot), at full speed and 2g Accel, it really is silent. (i think we only heard the controller fans, as tbe door was open). Maybe I'll post a video of the testings if I've some time.
This is great for all processes that don't produce a significant load on the tool, because robots arms are not stiff enough to take these without bending. If you take a 20mm endmill and chew into steel, it will be chatter hell. But for foam and 3D printing... awesome!
The entire concept of Skynet coming out of some US military program is ridiculous. This is how Skynet took it's first tentative steps towards extinguishing all human life. And I get to say, I was there at the beginning. I hope your proud of yourself.
Yeah, those don't work unfortunately (yet). Bought them at the auction for 50 euro. One has a fried EPROM and the other is missing some boards. These are the projects for when I have a lot of spare time (won't happen very soon😬)
I can't believe I just watched a 2-ton robot arm carrying out an intricate task with such precision that it makes me writing my name freehand with a pen look like a Neanderthal using a rock! UGG!!! BASH!!! UGG!!! 😳 😄👍
i remembered after graduating university, i worked as an engineer in a local sheet metal stamping factory. the CNC turret punch still uses floppy disc for the program..we had to transfer the files from a crappy pc into the disk and hand the disk over to the operator.
Subscribed, which is a bad idea. I have a complete Fanuc M16i RJ3 cell that I bought with a project like this in mind. I decided to part it out when I realized much work the project would be. But maybe...
De meeste geluiden die het frezen gaven lieten me haren rechtop staan als verspaningstechnoloog. Maar hee wat is dit vet zeg, volgens mijn een flink partijtje moeite in gestoken om het een beetje te laten werken. Super knap!
Ik heb de verkeerde lijm gebruikt om de platen op elkaar te lijmen, deze was redelijk dik en harde volledig uit. Dit zijn de geluiden die je hoort. In zuivere isomo is dit geluid veel beter 😜
Cool stuff. I started out using a Motoman SK arm that still used floppy and serial communication. But I remember the user interface (forget what the term was) was really intuitive.
Really nice :) These machines are surprisingly affordable if bought used/broken. I would not be able to fix them, thou. I talked with an ABB sales rep and the guy told me that you have to set them up inside a confined area like a cage. They also do not come with a CE certificate so you have to bring in somebody from TÜV to carry out the technical acceptance. But maybe thats just the german party pooper way :D
i can tell you the fencing is not for the robot but to kep dumb humans away from it, cause it would barely notice you while it´s pushing you through the fence to keep the robot where it should be you have to limit it´s range with software and hardware limits and about CE, a robot in itself is forbidden to have a CE marking as it is a "unvollständige Maschine" only a robot cell as a whole will get an CE even a robot with its process equipment can´t get a CE according to the "Maschinenrichtline" even as it is no longer a "unvollständige Maschine"
Great video 👍 The robot arm is the best way to do CNC,if the memory restriction could be resolved it would be amazing fast.Edge precision has the same restriction on his Mazak.
Nice Job. I have a kuka kr210 that I mounted a plasma torch on, but haven’t gotten around to a spindle yet. I think that putting your spindle inline with your sixth axis costs you an axis. Usually you see them at a 90 degree angle. I think you are much more likely to encounter a singularity this way.
Thanks man 😁. Axis 5 is now at 90 degrees. If i put axis 5 at 0 degrees (straight) and use a 90 degrees bracket for the spindle then axis 3 and 5 are more likely to get in line with each other when you come up to the height of the arm and cause a singularity. If you put axis 5 at 0 degrees and make a linear move up, it'll always cross the singularity point. If you put axis 5 at 90 degrees and make a linear move up, it'll never cross this singularity point.
Setting the spindle bracket up at 15 degrees off the mounting plate is helps out Adding an error handling routine to get past any singularity issues. Usually a small repositioning or path change is all that's necessary.
Prachtig Brian! Geweldig wat je er allemaal mee kan doen! Ook zeer goede Outro muziek!
Bedankt Catalyst Belgium, de outro muziek is geweldig 😜👍
Amazing accuracy. Great job updating the computer. I feel like this machine could produce much larger sculptures than any CNC machine.
Than ANY cnc machine? No. The reach of the arm isn't crazy huge but it is a good size.
@@bc8010 Not any machine, but it can certainly do work on much larger objects than any similarly sized CNC machine, since the object doesn't have to fit _inside_ the machine.
@@ska042 not to mention, give it a rotary table and it basically becomes a 5+ axis machine, since it can reach all angles easily that way.
@@ariginsberg4029 nothing a rotary table might fix ;3
That may be the cleanest used robotic arm I've ever seen after that wash you gave it. Love it. Can't wait to see it get dirty again.
I find it strange that you encounter so many dirty robots.
@@TJ-W they are mostly used in factories/assembly lines so not rly
@@MrAsddasdasda uhhh… that doesn’t apply to my comment. Thanks.
I love the IRB6400! I spent so much time working on these and the older S4 and S4C controllers. We didn't have the USB function, and we had to get really creative when writing our programs to optimize them for space. Great work on this! As always be safe! These robots have the ability to get up to 6m/s! 😵
It's an amazing machine 😁. will do so, haven't gone above 150mm/s yet and milling usually happens at 30-40mm/s so not that much speed but you'll never know with these machines of course.
@@BrianBrockenyeah be careful that thing doesn’t whip around and clock you in the face outta nowhere
@@BrianBrocken how did you manage to get one ? how cheap does it get second hand ?
These were run for 24hrs before shipping.
One, went wild and threw it's dummy weight over 100ft, and right through a concrete block wall.
Just FYI 😉
@@PAFFO 10.000 € and up depending on condition / configuration
This is so cool! My first job after university was ABB robotics and I developed the SW controlling the electrical drives for the S4C controller. However, the IRB6000 (later rebranded to 6400 when relaunched with the S4 controller) was designed for spotwelding and outperformed all competition for 1 inch, 2 inch and 5 inch movements between spots. The main challenge was the compact gear boxes with natural frequency far below the frequency of the spotweld moves. Just cutting EPS is a simple job for this great machine!
That's a great story, thanks for sharing😁. Love hearing the stories of people who helped developing these awesome machines 👍.
You gave this robot a second life, that's great! It's so precise, can't believe its repeatability is so fine!
Once upon a time, I've designed and made my own desktop cnc mill - I've implemented my university graduation work 10 years after I finished my study. It was an interesting experience.
Best regards, Max.
This would be PERFECT for making fiberglass molds! In the yacht industry we have massive 5-axis CNCs that we only cut dense foam on to create a "plug" the plug is then sanded and polished to a mirror finish (with high build primer "duratech"). Then we wax the plug, spray with gel coat, and spray chop strand fiberglass on. From there you lay up additional layers of fiberglass, and once you've pulled the foam and fiberglass apart you have a mold! The foam you cut here is standard styrofoam or what we call 1lb foam. We cut 10lb and 40lb foam as well. For the biggest parts we use the 1lb foam, and do a rough cut (undersized by 1/4") with a huge endmill, then we apply a layer of thick 2 part epoxy putty to the rough cut foam, then we use a smaller ball endmill to do the finish pass.
You have an awesome opportunity to start making sweet carbon or fiberglass parts!
Adding a 7th axis (linear track for the robot to move along) gives you a lot of scope for such things. Some yacht builders (there are also specialist plug makers) are doing exactly that using robots.
Isn't 40lb foam incredibly expensive to buy. And I assume heavy. I'm in the process of saving up for a cnc machine to make foam plugs. A robot arm would be killer because of its massive z axis
@@crazyg74 Believe it or not is not all that helpful. Because with a mold you’re still constrained by draft so the part can actually release from the mold.
In Fusion 360 if you haven't, I would look at the smoothing feature within most toolpaths. It limits point density in the program. Makes it easier for slower controllers to keep up with the program. I would do a test with smoothing off and smoothing on set to a value that you deem reasonable and compare the cycle times.
Yes i have experimented with this feature and it reduces the files size by a lot. Also changed the default resolution from 0.1mm to 1mm which is also a huge improvement and barely noticeable on the larger parts, might turn even turn it up for larger parts. I also set the lead in and lead out distances to 0.0, these are arcs and arcs have a lot of points so this is also a huge improvement.
@@BrianBrocken can you break a file into parts?
Hi Brian, superb show case of how we can give new purpose to these old machines! We did sort of the same for a irb6400r200-2.8 s4c controller. We’re in the mids of turning it into a large format 3D printer. If you need some info contact me. I can explain more in detail wich components we used for storage and battery upgrades. Also we would love to come in contact with like minded people from around the globe! Regards Marcel
Hey Marcel, thank you for your comment. Would love to get in touch with you. You can send me an email with your information. Email adres can be found on my RUclips channel or my website (see description of this video).
Plz make videos about the machines
Hi, me and a friend recently became the owners of two IRB6600 robots with IRC5 controllers. We are both finishing our engineering degrees this year so we put the robots in storage for time being but we plan on restoring and recommissioning them early next year. We are still a bit unsure about a few things and we have a lot to learn. It would be nice to be in contact with people who have experience and who would be eager to answer a question now and then. Would you please let me know how I can get in contact with you if you don’t mind.
I have an irb 6400 with an s4c+ controller that I am trying to 3d print with. I would love to connect and see how you are doing it. I have not gotten much past getting the thing running yet.
Congrats to your new pet. train it well and dont forget to feed em.
Its really impressive, how accurate these large robots can be.
will certainly do so, thanks for the advice ;-)
Seeing TCP working for the first time must have been such an incredible day.
That tool centre point is so satisfying
Tool Center Point: This is simply AMAZING....look at that thing go, with such precision!! WOW!
I used to work at Jaguar Land Rover and would sometimes walk through the body shop just to marvel at the ABBs in action.
Bringing back some fun memories at ABB in New Berlin and Auburn Hills from 20 plus years ago ...
Wow that's great, so silent! A rotary table for the work bed might be nice.Very impressive!
Thanks man, that would indeed be nice 😉👍
Dito、epic。Something emotional about sprucing up a retired beast of a robot and bringing it back into service。No doubt its much more capable than we think。
Jesus that is one behemoth of a contraption, awesome video.
Thanks man 😉👍
Good to see the old VB WinForms getting some love in Visual Studio.
That's what was used at my old workplace (Automobile industry) to machine the cockpits of cars. Literally robots like this (just a bit smaller) who could machine all around the part, just in all axes :))
You have just become the most envied and hated CNC garage hobbyist in history.
My knee-jerk reaction is "I WANT ONE!!!"
The 6400 series are built like a tank. I programmed and operated 2 of these at work since 2000. They ran at 3-4 meters/second lifting up to 90 pound parts 24 hours per day, 7 days per week with little issues. The would pace parts on a machine spindle with +/- .0025" accuracy. The motion sensitivity makes them relatively safe to work around, and they have welding software for oscillation. We used Schunk grippers on ours.
Like using a tractor to do surgery
Hahahhahahaha, that's a really good analogy.
Yes and no, weight wise the analogy is great but a tractor doesn't have sub-millimeter accuracy like a robot arm!
@@CoolAsFreya I meant in terms of overdoing task at hand, and its capabilities. Not about precision.
Simple 3D mill with couple nema 17 and aluminium extrusions would cut this foam just as easily.
Hell, even a 3D printed robotic arm would do the trick and cost 10 times less at least.
@@zonemyparkour they may just be using foam for testing and may use other materials later. There is a very good chance that a 3D printed robot arm won’t be as precise as this unless you spend a lot on proper gearboxes but you still have to deal with the arm flexing.
@@zonemyparkour true but I don’t believe the hole point of that video is to make the cheapest and easiest way.
In my opinion it’s to show that he get it running and can program the Maschine.
He can use that Maschine for things much more than a 3d printed home mad arme is capable.
That robot seems in really good condition, we have one very similar at work, in production since 1998.
There is a between step Z0 instead of fine or z1.
Z1 might round some corners, z0 should not, but neither stop at the point like fine.
Nice job with the program conversion !!
Thanks for the tip, i also found Z0 in the documentation but didn't find it on the controller, it goes from Z1 to fine, no Z0 in between.
@@BrianBrocken Maybe it's only available since S4C+ but you can build your own! Declare a variable of type zonedata in program with a zone like 0.001mm. It's self-explanatory on the teach pendent. Or you edit the BASE.SYS and add something like "CONST zonedata z0 := [FALSE, 0.001, 0.001, 1, 0.001, 1, 0.1];"
Yes thats so cool! And i love the fact, that you wrote your own Application.
Awesome, the accuracy is impressive to say the robots probably got quit a few thousand hours of use previously. I worked and installed large industrial laser cutting machines back in 2000’s , LDV /BYSRONIC , kinda lost touch now but think it’s nice to know there’s people like yourself having a go . 🇬🇧👍. Lots of respect
Nice work, good to see an old beast get a second life!
This is a great project! Much respect! Since I work a lot with CNC machines, I would consider this robot good enough for softer materials. With metal on the other hand you could likely run into problems with shattering.
Dude this is epic! Can't wait to see more!
Thanks man 😁
I bought an old VMC with a punched tape reader. It also had a serial port so I wrote a drip feeder that looks surprisingly similar to yours. But I too had the issue where the controller would only take one command at a time so it had no ability to "merge" the path between commands so it would execute every line of code and stop then start processing the next line. Never did figure out how to fix it or if it was even fixable. Sadly I had to sell it at a loss. Great machine.
That's unfortunate that you had to sell it 😕.
I love it as if it were an innocent pet or something. My heart is full of love
Wow, easily the coolest thing I’ve seen on YT this year! Congrats on scoring it and mad props for getting it running again!
(And holy moly, 16 *micron* repeatability?!? What kind of encoders does it have? (Even with the encoder on the input shaft and a high ratio on the harmonic drive, it seems insane to me that it can have that level of precision out at the end of the arm, after going through all the joints. Crazy tech!)
(And I have no need whatever for such a thing let alone space to put it but I’m still intensely envious 😁)
Thank you very much 😁 i tested the repeatability by going to a far point, making sure all axis moved, and then returning to the test point. Did this about 15 times and 0.016 was the difference between the min and max. I also have no idea how they did this, I occasionally design and 3D-print different type of actuators myself and even getting it to mm level is very hard. Hats of to ABB for making something like this 😉👍
36000 lines encoder is pretty normal stuff, 10x interpolation gives 360000, 360/360000 => 0.001°, which is about 0.017mm/m, about the accuracy that thing has.
Also largely depends on whether it's like a knee joint or fully extended in rotation, with knee joint nearly straight, very little change in distance vs encoder angle.
Put like a Haimer probe on that thing and test full 3D repeatability ;-)
Or ball bar test, put like a ball bearing on a table like in 4:35 and dial indicator into the robot and look for circular error
ABB uses analog resolvers to determine motor shaft angles. The signals from each resolver are evaluated by the Serial Measurement Board (SMB). The SMB also counts motor revolutions and sends the data to the motion controller. This calculates lots of stuff to compensate for mechanical things like flexing or vibration of the robot arm, so you can hit the bulls eye at low speed as well as full throttle.
Admirable skills. Hat off. You give that huge robot a second life, another brain. Thank you for entertaining us and... of course instructing us as well Brian. I subscribed to your wonderful channel
Thank you very much Philibert 😁👍
Very nice video, I have to say I thought a robot arm of this size would of been louder, it's very impressive how silent it is. Nice precision as well, I assume all the joints/gears are harmonic?
Thanks man, I was also surprised by the sound (or rather lack of it) it made. You can barely hear it when standing next to it. Yes the gearboxes used in this robot are harmonic. This robot inspired me to design and 3D-print a harmonic drive, just to understand it a bit better 😜 ruclips.net/video/1jqYdFrZqFI/видео.html
ABB robots really are silent!
Fanuc on the other end not so much
@@SetKat-Alex That's really interesting, thanks for the info, I never get to be around robots, i've actually always wondered which ones are louder and quieter. I have some (somewhat affordable) harmonic drives that are FOC driven BLDC motors and they are surprisingly quiet, actually dead silent, it's always impressed me.
do they make more noise when running at full speed ? like a welder (but not including the welder its self) ?
@@maxgood42 at full speed, you can only hear the motor drive, but not the reducer at all.
We tested an IRB 460 with a 25kg box (that's nothing for the robot), at full speed and 2g Accel, it really is silent. (i think we only heard the controller fans, as tbe door was open).
Maybe I'll post a video of the testings if I've some time.
Watching this remind me to Kobelco welding robot that are used in company where I work, they keep working during lunch break😆
Leuke video weer Brian :)
Ik heb gezien dat je je eigen website hebt, echt heel mooi! Ziet er super professioneel uit!
Merci man 😁👍
Crazy ingenious ! the proof that recycling is possible
Awesome. I've always wanted to acquire a giant robot arm, but I'm also respectfully afraid of its raw power.
I used to install, maintain and program these robots. ABB was the easiest brand to work with.
Awesome man. I wonder if you could screw off some cover plates and show us how the robot is designed in terms of Gearset and servos.
Two of those on each side of an old tank and you have yourself your personal own (Half-) Mech :-) Awesome work!
It would be great if i could have access to such a robot... It can do so many things... New ones are.... quite expensive.. Great work Brian!!!
This is great for all processes that don't produce a significant load on the tool, because robots arms are not stiff enough to take these without bending. If you take a 20mm endmill and chew into steel, it will be chatter hell. But for foam and 3D printing... awesome!
It's only intended to mill foam. Might experiment a bit with some wood as well at a lower speed, that'll be it.
Looks incredibly useful for large scale mockups!
Man, I would love to see how the hell you even program this thing. what a machine!
A CNC mill is dandy, but this has the accuracy to become an EDM machine!
The way it dead stops at 4:30 looks eactly like the video froze. Very cool
I am really tempted as one of our auto manufacturers have closed down and there are a few of these on the market...
The entire concept of Skynet coming out of some US military program
is ridiculous. This is how Skynet took it's first tentative steps towards
extinguishing all human life. And I get to say, I was there at the beginning.
I hope your proud of yourself.
Inverse kinematics... are just amazing
das ist unglaublich cool! Du bist ein echter Tüftler thumbs up!!!
A man cave with arcade cabinets and f*king functioning robotic arm. Now i have seen everything.
Yeah, those don't work unfortunately (yet). Bought them at the auction for 50 euro. One has a fried EPROM and the other is missing some boards. These are the projects for when I have a lot of spare time (won't happen very soon😬)
What a beautiful machine, truly
Awesome project and nice work creating your own software to generate your G-code and stream it. Inspirational work!
In INDIA also their is ABB Robot manufacturing plant.
🕉️🇮🇳❤️💪
Years back i had the chance to get a smaller ABB arm for about 500$. I always wanted to turn one into a 3d printer.
I can't believe I just watched a 2-ton robot arm carrying out an intricate task with such precision that it makes me writing my name freehand with a pen look like a Neanderthal using a rock! UGG!!! BASH!!! UGG!!! 😳 😄👍
That is also a very good description for my handwriting 😂
Nice project! The 6400 are very nice robots! :)
Bro this is a dream project for me. Absolutely sick!
You've got a gem there.
That is so cool!
Een knap staaltje techniek ... proficiat met dit project 👏
Merci Ronny 😜
This so cool, I can think of many possibilities with one of these
i remembered after graduating university, i worked as an engineer in a local sheet metal stamping factory. the CNC turret punch still uses floppy disc for the program..we had to transfer the files from a crappy pc into the disk and hand the disk over to the operator.
Subscribed, which is a bad idea.
I have a complete Fanuc M16i RJ3 cell that I bought with a project like this in mind. I decided to part it out when I realized much work the project would be. But maybe...
Netjes hoor!! Gaaf om te zien.
Engineers are Magicians!
Mate, that is the bollocks. Skills. 👌
De meeste geluiden die het frezen gaven lieten me haren rechtop staan als verspaningstechnoloog. Maar hee wat is dit vet zeg, volgens mijn een flink partijtje moeite in gestoken om het een beetje te laten werken.
Super knap!
Ik heb de verkeerde lijm gebruikt om de platen op elkaar te lijmen, deze was redelijk dik en harde volledig uit. Dit zijn de geluiden die je hoort. In zuivere isomo is dit geluid veel beter 😜
Cool stuff. I started out using a Motoman SK arm that still used floppy and serial communication. But I remember the user interface (forget what the term was) was really intuitive.
A wet dream of every architecture graduate :o
This is the kind of stuff I want to have in my backyard
That is awesome, those are dangerous machines!
I like the jump shot at :47
Where you transferred the grime from the robot too the floor....
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Tolle Arbeit.👍🏻
Great job! Can't wait to see this in 5 axis machining
There is a guy on youtube Lignum, who treats such giants quite well as a CNC.
He has indeed a very interesting channel 😉👍
Love the "rescue" robot project. Every guys shop ought to have one! Lol!
Now you are ready to have the robot meet the ups driver.
Or the porch pirate!
Really nice :) These machines are surprisingly affordable if bought used/broken. I would not be able to fix them, thou. I talked with an ABB sales rep and the guy told me that you have to set them up inside a confined area like a cage. They also do not come with a CE certificate so you have to bring in somebody from TÜV to carry out the technical acceptance. But maybe thats just the german party pooper way :D
i can tell you the fencing is not for the robot but to kep dumb humans away from it, cause it would barely notice you while it´s pushing you through the fence
to keep the robot where it should be you have to limit it´s range with software and hardware limits
and about CE, a robot in itself is forbidden to have a CE marking as it is a "unvollständige Maschine" only a robot cell as a whole will get an CE
even a robot with its process equipment can´t get a CE according to the "Maschinenrichtline" even as it is no longer a "unvollständige Maschine"
My kukas are happy to throw around 200kgs. It wouldn't even notice punching you in the face.
The new durr robots are wicked but also really really expensive I work around them the accuracy is amazing
Nice work. Cool tool to have access to. 👍
Amazing how much cutting foam sounds like stick welding.
Great stuff!
Reminded me of those videos of stray dogs/cats that get rehabilitated and look and act happy again...
It won't be too long until all new CNC machines are robots.
wow, its amazing, tks for sharing
Great video 👍 The robot arm is the best way to do CNC,if the memory restriction could be resolved it would be amazing fast.Edge precision has the same restriction on his Mazak.
God this is amazing work !!!!
Thank you 👍
Amazing work!
This is so amazing!!!
Old Swedish but god quality machine.
it is just a matter of time till we start seeing the first battlemechs
Like using a "finely tuned" bat to kill a mosquito. Very nice 🙂
amazing
Insane project
Nice Job. I have a kuka kr210 that I mounted a plasma torch on, but haven’t gotten around to a spindle yet. I think that putting your spindle inline with your sixth axis costs you an axis. Usually you see them at a 90 degree angle. I think you are much more likely to encounter a singularity this way.
Thanks man 😁. Axis 5 is now at 90 degrees. If i put axis 5 at 0 degrees (straight) and use a 90 degrees bracket for the spindle then axis 3 and 5 are more likely to get in line with each other when you come up to the height of the arm and cause a singularity. If you put axis 5 at 0 degrees and make a linear move up, it'll always cross the singularity point. If you put axis 5 at 90 degrees and make a linear move up, it'll never cross this singularity point.
Setting the spindle bracket up at 15 degrees off the mounting plate is helps out
Adding an error handling routine to get past any singularity issues. Usually a small repositioning or path change is all that's necessary.
I’m subbing in hopes for more of this robot. My dream is an ABB or KUKA cnc router just like this.
Really cool, hope you get to a point where we can see the robot doing more than just 3 axis
Hope so too 👍
I would 100% have that thing operate my bridgeport. Secondhand CNC!
A robot turning the cranks on a manual machine....CNC by proxy...Now, that would be a great project.
Gute Idee. 💡 👍🧐😅😃