Fatronik Quickplacer - world's fastest industrial bot

Unless they've done something special like learn to dance, it's hard to get too excited about industrial robots. But we'd gladly take a trip to the factory floor to land a glance of the Fatronik Quickplacer, a bot capable of moving over 200 parts per minute, an achievement its maker claims makes it the world's fastest industrial bot. No word on where it's going to be used first, though we can imagine it being deployed to rapidly hand out pink slips once it's installed.

[Via The Raw Feed]

[John Laur @ Mar 14th 2006 12:24PM]

Pink slip joke being funny and all, the truth is that the use of faster PCB manufacturing technology in most cases will result in the need to hire MORE workers. The process is largely as automated as possible in most facilities, so increasing the speed of the mechanical line will necessitate the speed of the human line to keep pace; thus you'll have more people placing large parts like cpu/ram sockets and testing finished components in order to keep pace with the robots.

Sorry it's anticlimactic.

[chay @ Mar 14th 2006 12:28PM]

I love the line in the auto-translation from the spanish that reads:

"The visitors who stop in stand of Tekniker really verify how the table frock coat."

fantastic! :D

[sean @ Mar 14th 2006 12:49PM]

Anyone know where to find a video of this?

[Mike @ Mar 14th 2006 2:30PM]

Chay, this baby was also able to do the following

"through its hook they can happen from chocolates for boxes, tablets of chocolate, cakes, packed of peppers, bars of lips, nutritional toallitas of baby and products."

Whoa! I'm impressed! Where can I buy one?

[Al Brown @ Mar 14th 2006 10:47PM]

The more of a process machines and robots do, the fewer humans will be required to build the same production. That's inescapable.

[Kevin @ Mar 15th 2006 12:35AM]

Remind anyone else of Bishop from Aliens?