Robot David Drilling and Hammering into Concrete

David (formerly Hand Arm System) is an anthropomorphic robot developed at DLR that features variable stiffness actuators (VSA) in all its joints. This demo shows David drilling into a block of concrete with a drill hammer. The built in VSA enhance Davids mechanical robustness against external impacts. This allows him to handle the impacts due to the drill hammering with relative ease.
The drilling task shown requires both, precise positioning of the tool center point and vibration damping.
Realizing this demo was a joint work by Davids team:
www.dlr.de/rmc/rm/en/desktopde...
Learn more about the system: www.dlr.de/rmc/rm/en/desktopde...
Control approach: doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2016.748... (ICRA 2016)
Video: Manuel Keppler, Sebastian Wolf

[@Hello.Sailor]

That articulation is pure art. Well done

[@TerragonCFD]

Grandfather of the new Atlas 🙂

[@ThomasTomiczek]

Whow. That robot looks SO complicated - compared to what we have now ready to be sold.

[@TheRealMrLaserCutter]

Nice one Dave

[@limitless1692]

beautiful

[@stranostrani9212]

he's so gentle

[@mikeomolt4485]

He?

[@munavvarfairuzeks]

Let me know, How you fix shoulder rotation in 3 axis. ?

[@re_animator]

Beautiful.

[@drbendover7467]

long way to go.

[@mawloudaichaoui5583]

is the variable stiffness implemented in the software ?

[@HannesHoeppner]

No, it's realized in hardware...

[@VladimiruYmiru]

Been a few years, DLR doing anything new?

[@adammargolis7785]

We're all SCREWED!🪛

[@lazarusblackwell6988]

Im sorry Dave.
Im afraid i cant do that.

[@petelebu]

Nice, now make it change bits

[@bluemamba5317]

That is one expensive hole..

[@Un_Americano_de_las_PUA]

America goes for the full monty, American adquisition 🇦🇷

[@Victor-oy8bj]

here comes the yt algorithm. robot takeover

[@pepperelijah]

good bot

[@rubenmahrla9800]

tfw a robot 6 years ago could do something you feel incapable of doing.

[@dahnsenwahnsenyes]

pls make us all jobless

[@petelebu]

Desert Lizard because food isn't free?

[@medmightdie6545]

Robots need maintenance. Engineering jobs would pop up and People will have jobs doing things the bots can’t.

[@petelebu]

nonsense, in 10 years robots will do everything and in 15 humans will be useless, at least us peasants

[@petelebu]

and what will you do that a robot cant to earn say food? oh yeah, the government will provide that for you for free..because they care about you hahahah please.

[@medmightdie6545]

The Robot That Stole Your Jawb!!! (-.-;)

[@andbressan]

E eu pensando que ele iria demolir o bloco com um soco...

[@klab3929]

*Bosch, Invented for robots*

[@williammorales8204]

Progress is inevitable, as long as businesses make more money from technology then it will happen. We adapt or become Detroit.

[@bitlong4669]

Ouch low blow to Detroiters lol

[@williammorales8204]

@@bitlong4669 It's true though, that town hasn't recovered from the decimation of the robotic effects on car making jobs, more importantly the lack of political leadership to react to it.

[@Vlican]

as cool as this is, wouldn't it be easier to build bespoke tools for robots vs. building robots to use human tools?

[@BHARGAV_GAJJAR]

Next FEM bot

[@did3d523]

old techno ... obsolete

[@IgorGabrielan]

Hello. can I upload this video on my RUclips channel vb.ai ?

[@renanmonteirobarbosa5761]

This is proof that robots are so far from being better than human labor.

[@maker_pt]

Well, look at all the automated factories. Most of the things that are repeatable and need to be done in large numbers are already automated. More and more more sophisticated jobs will be automated at some point as well. If you look at something like dall-e, art could be one of the next areas that will be more automated.

[@IONACOMPUTERS]

Now make the drill weigh 200 kg , find a place like a mine where a humanoid body type is needed because of its manoeuvring skill , suddenly the droid may save the day , our bodies cannot drill endlessly

[@renanmonteirobarbosa5761]

@@IONACOMPUTERS Autonomous robots vs Human Controlled **

[@anonym9323]

​@@renanmonteirobarbosa5761 I do not think so 😂 from now on we are really damn fast in optimization of these kind of problems give them 8years the world we know of will be upside down

[@soccerkenshin]

Three years later and every week it seems there's a new humanoid robot company releasing jaw dropping videos of autonomous operation. See 1x, figure ai, astribot, and sanctuary to name just a few.

[@Lightning---K.]

This guy is soooo slooow ... also precision is not sufficient, driller is put to one spot at the beginning and when the drill beginns the driller scratches a little bit over the surface ( an error that humans also do in the beginning ) ...but a robot should be more precise just like automotive production robot arms!
Naahh ..... but thank you for your demo.
Personally i prefer Teslabot , or Boston Dynmamics Atlas, or Sanctuary AI, etc, etc...

[@dalehill6127]

Slower than a dead human. Must try harder.

[@artpaul8909]

the faster these types of robots are banned the better.......i wont even use the lineups in stores for do it yourself check outs. i will vote for whatever government bans this type of robot.

[@Gregzenegair]

I spotted robot racism

[@sausage4mash]

Luddite

[@fmx1304]

slower than my grandma