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Andy Dukes said:
Robots that tend machines historically are housed behind fencing and or light curtains so they are not operating in the presence of human operators as they are stupid and will not stop when a human is in their area. I know of at least one serious injury to a service tech who thought he was smarter than the robot and entered the caged area during operation. There are new robots that tend machines that do not use cages. They use sensors and are programmed at a slower federate to lesson inertia. When they hit something like a human they stop and will not run again until they are reset. I have visited factories that use part moving little trams that use sensors in the floor to move large parts or racks of materials inside the factories. they have a cute little set of bells to let you know they are coming. They could hurt you if they hit you but in a factory setting the employees are aware of them.

Current research into new robots that interact with humans in an open area like the one running around Stanford, using GPS, visual sensors and other sensors to stop crashing into people is happening right now. It has problems when it runs into crowds. It has to stop and wait so it does not run into anyone. Also, if it gets knocked over, it is screwed. To put parcel moving robots into the sidewalks, is difficult if not impossible without redoing the pedestrian traffic. That is why Amazon and others want to use drones. No people to worry about until you drop the package.
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Many years ago ---

I visited a factory back east years ago that had a mail robot that would follow a track around the building dropping off and picking up containers from several stations. It moved slowly and if it hit anything it would stop and make a little beep every few seconds. Many people that worked there knew how to restart it.

A place in El Segundo had a robotic stock room. Given a list of parts over the network, it would deliver the parts in an ESD-safe container to a worker at a station just outside the room who would do final adjustments since it didn't know how to take just one or a few parts from a full box or reel.

I visited a semi-automated warehouse outside Phoenix that seemed to be bigger on the inside than looked possible from the outside. It was full of huge racks all the way to the ceiling. Workers drove fork-lift-like devices that had display screens telling the worker which rack, shelf, and bin to pick under the supervision of a central computer that knew the location of every part in the place and the location of every one of the fetchers on the floor.
 
Andy Dukes said:
Robots that tend machines historically are housed behind fencing and or light curtains so they are not operating in the presence of human operators as they are stupid and will not stop when a human is in their area. I know of at least one serious injury to a service tech who thought he was smarter than the robot and entered the caged area during operation. There are new robots that tend machines that do not use cages. They use sensors and are programmed at a slower federate to lesson inertia. When they hit something like a human they stop and will not run again until they are reset. I have visited factories that use part moving little trams that use sensors in the floor to move large parts or racks of materials inside the factories. they have a cute little set of bells to let you know they are coming. They could hurt you if they hit you but in a factory setting the employees are aware of them.

Current research into new robots that interact with humans in an open area like the one running around Stanford, using GPS, visual sensors and other sensors to stop crashing into people is happening right now. It has problems when it runs into crowds. It has to stop and wait so it does not run into anyone. Also, if it gets knocked over, it is screwed. To put parcel moving robots into the sidewalks, is difficult if not impossible without redoing the pedestrian traffic. That is why Amazon and others want to use drones. No people to worry about until you drop the package.
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So do you sell robot employees ?
 
espola said:
Many years ago ---

I visited a factory back east years ago that had a mail robot that would follow a track around the building dropping off and picking up containers from several stations. It moved slowly and if it hit anything it would stop and make a little beep every few seconds. Many people that worked there knew how to restart it.

A place in El Segundo had a robotic stock room. Given a list of parts over the network, it would deliver the parts in an ESD-safe container to a worker at a station just outside the room who would do final adjustments since it didn't know how to take just one or a few parts from a full box or reel.

I visited a semi-automated warehouse outside Phoenix that seemed to be bigger on the inside than looked possible from the outside. It was full of huge racks all the way to the ceiling. Workers drove fork-lift-like devices that had display screens telling the worker which rack, shelf, and bin to pick under the supervision of a central computer that knew the location of every part in the place and the location of every one of the fetchers on the floor.
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Amazon bought a robot company to use inn it's fulfillment centers. Honeywell just bought another robotic group.
 
I wonder, ponder, why the Mayor of London would claim his city is safe...

Why he would say that large cities like his, need to live with terrorism..

Is it because he is a Muslim..

Or just an idiot.
 
Andy Dukes said:
I wonder what the murder rate is in London compared to Los Angeles or San Diego.
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Or Oceanside - one young man killed near the Pier last week as a crowd gathered to watch the sunset. I heard on the Sprinter the next day that it was family retaliation for getting a young girl pregnant.
 
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