A Robot With a Chainsaw! 101
mikejuk writes "If you are a fan of the Sci-Fi sub-genre of robot apocalypses, you may well not want to give a robot a chainsaw to wield. If, on the other hand, you are a creative artist, then it seems well worth the risk, as this video demonstrates. In this case the robot is a standard industrial arm with an electric chainsaw mounted where the gripper would normally go. Exactly what the robot is doing isn't obvious to the viewer, but once it is finished the whole thing is disassembled to reveal two wooden stools and some interesting shapes. A robot with a chainsaw is just a subtractive 3D printer."
Re:nihao bitches!! (Score:4, Insightful)
Honda is Japanese. The same goes for Samurai. HTC is Taiwanese.
The porn cartoons, bullet trains, and "all that shit" is less specific, but Japan, the "land of the rising sun", is strongly implied. This is not a terribly strong argument to learn Korean.
Also, your post ends with an extraneous quotation mark.
Re:nihao bitches!! (Score:5, Informative)
without even mentionning that "nihao" is chinese...
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without even mentionning that "nihao" is chinese...
In the future, all languages will be Korean. Chinese becomes Korean-C.
Guten Tag ! - learn german (Score:1)
"KUKA ist eine deutsche Firma"
O Hi O ;)
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A very slippery slope (Score:3)
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with chainsaw hands (Score:1)
I want to be an Adrienne Barbeaubot!
Subtractive 3D Printers don't harm people (Score:1)
People harm people.... sometimes using subtractive 3D printers
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Just tell them to make sure that the head mesh is attached to the rest before clicking submit.
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They must have forgotten that today Sci-Fi genre stands for "vampires and paranormal fiction". :'(
CNC machine (Score:5, Insightful)
A "subtractive 3D printer" is usually called a "CNC machine".
Re:CNC machine (Score:4, Interesting)
"Subtractive 3D printer" is a better term, though.
CNC == Computer Numerical Control
CNC would be a better acronym for a calculator.
Re:CNC machine (Score:4, Informative)
Not according to Wikipedia [wikipedia.org], or this site [thefreedictionary.com] or this one [shopbottools.com] or this one [technologystudent.com]. You get the idea - I can't really find anything defining CNC as anything other than Computer Numerical Control(led).
Yes, must.
Re:CNC machine (Score:5, Funny)
Re:CNC machine (Score:4, Funny)
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Oh dear. It looks as though Muphry's Law [wikipedia.org] strikes again!
Re:CNC machine (Score:4, Insightful)
A CNC machine already exists and doesn't look like part of a human. Slashdot loves new things, robots, things that cut, things that are overly powerful, and things that seem dangerous. Honestly, a CNC milling, cutting, and routing machine could often use something like a chainsaw in its initial steps to speed things up. This guy might have inspired something useful.
tl;dr : CNC is useful, but a robot with a chainsaw is fucking cool
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Right, and the problem wasn't with that, but with the terminology. Cutting up something into parts is not substraction, because you can cut out several objects from one piece of wood, thus there's much less waste.
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More specifically, a CNC machine normally doesn't have any intelligence, so it's not a robot, any more than a telefactor is. And telefactors often have MORE internal intelligence than CNC machines. They need to avoid causing harm by accident to either themselves or others. CNC machines often just operate out of ROM, with essentially no state. (Well, they do have a tiny bit of state, but not much. And this one might not need any.)
I really despise the way the term "robot" is being abused for anything mec
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tl;dr : CNC is useful, but a ROBOT WITH A CHAINSA is _Freagingly amazing mothaFUCKA COOL!!!
Added some emphasis there ya.
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You should get a load of my "additive eraser."
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You should get a load of my "additive eraser."
do you mean a pencil, perchance?
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You should get a load of my "additive eraser."
do you mean a pencil, perchance?
I think he means Tippex or Liquid Paper.
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You should get a load of my "additive eraser."
do you mean a pencil, perchance?
I think he means that bottle of whiteout taped to his left hand.
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CNC is continuous numeric control. So most modern computer controlled machines are CNC. The computer monitors and controls both speed and position and is doing a fairly sophisticated job.
NC is numeric control. Examples are stepper motor motivated machines. The computer just tells the machine to move 1000 steps.
To use a computer analogy (that most of you won't remember) stepper motor hard drives vs voice coil. The voice coil drives head control is CNC, stepper motor drives head control is NC. You know t
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next on the list (Score:3, Insightful)
Now all they need is to collect all the sawdust, add some resin and make an additive 3D printer!
Re:next on the list (Score:4, Interesting)
Already done. http://www.3ders.org/articles/20120920-laywoo-d3-new-fdm-filament-can-print-wood-with-tree-rings.html [3ders.org]
Good machine, poor software (Score:5, Interesting)
He has a 5-axis robot with a cutting tool. That's enough to do real sculpture. Just grinding out a three-legged table with straight cuts is far less than the machine could do. This suggests the software being used isn't a real 5-axis CNC package. He needs HyperMill. [youtube.com] Take a look of what that can do with a 5-axis mill.
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right, he could have at least made a look-alike of one of those pedestals with the reflective metal balls on it that you see in peoples gardens.
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Okay, so I get 3-axis (x, y, z) what are the other 2 axis for? Will it make a Mobius loop?
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I want one which can manipulate the T-dimension.
I for one... (Score:4, Funny)
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... run away from our new hedge pruning, tree trimming, log cutting, Edward Chainsaw-hands overlords.
Bad chainsaw technique (Score:3)
With a robot I suppose it doesn't matter, unless there are humans nearby; but going into a piece of wood nose first with a chainsaw is asking for trouble if you're a human. It's a good way to get a face-full of chainsaw (or foot-full, depending on the orientation).
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Yep. I was going to ask for a chainsaw robot army, but not these.
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This thing is a lot stronger than a human. You can do a lot more with a chainsaw if you're strong enough to wield it with precision, rather than letting the blade kick around like a human has to.
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Well John Henry says to his captain,
A man ain't nothin' but a man,
But before I get beat by this old piece of steel
I'll die with a chainsaw in my hand
Die with a chainsaw in my hand.
Already Obsolete (Score:2)
Yes, yes, the chainsaw is impressive in a crude sort of way. But everyone knows the finest Killbots must be equipped with a machine gun. And Lotus Notes.
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Since they'll need a screen to horrify people with Lotus Notes, I suggest a hypothetical finest Killbot be equipped with either Microsoft Bob or Clippy.
"I see you're about to be killed by a robot. Do you want to read about Asimov's Laws of Robotics?"
"...a subtractive 3D printer..." (Score:2)
Or a really, really crude milling machine.
This is great! (Score:2)
Now after I defeat this robot, I will gain the Robot Chainsaw power.
Visionary Writer (Score:2)
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I think you are looking for chapter 2:
"Kid Afrika came cruising into Dog Solitude on the last day in November, his vintage Dodge chauffeured by a white girl named Cherry Chesterfield.
Slick Henry and Little Bird were breaking down the buzzsaw that formed the Judge's left hand when Kid's Dodge came into view, its patched apron bag throwing up brown fantails of the rusty water that pooled on the Solitude's uneven plain of compacted steel."
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See children, this is what happens when you mix stock car racing, LSD and Red Bull... a warning to the wise!
Say what? (Score:2)
"A robot with a chainsaw is just a subtractive 3D printer."
So every machine tool is a subtractive 3D printer? "Removing everything that isn't Apollo" from the block of marble is "subtractive 3D printing?"
Good to know that we've been "subtractive 3D printing" since the paleolithic era.
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BMO
Re:Kitty Say what? (Score:1)
"A robot with a chainsaw is just a subtractive 3D printer."
A robot with Gatling Gun arms is just a subtractive swiss cheese maker.
A robot with a nailgun is just a tacky solution to a loosely defined problem.
A robot with breasts is just a publicity stunt.
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A robot with breasts is just a publicity stunt.
And I thought it was Nicki Manaj... oh, I guess we're both right!
Sawfish ROV (Score:1)
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Unfortunately it's much worse, surgeon with a fetish: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1959332/ [imdb.com]
Johnny Von Scissorhands (Score:1)
Can it carve another robot with a chainsaw?
Sandy's Revenge (Score:2)
Put something like these in schools to protect from crazed shooters. Or simplify them to be like the flat battle-bots with spikes and blades. Such might not outright stop the shooter, but with a pair nipping at the feet of a shooter or two, it would greatly slow them down. Include a mace cannon.
So uh, this is how... (Score:2)
Ikea builds the terminator??? Ya, dis is a lovely little table and set of bar stoowels... RUN!!!!
Killing him softly with his saw (Score:1)
We need to train robots to use chainsaws... (Score:2)
... so that they can fight against the zombie apocalypse. And when the robots try to take over, we'll enlist the aid of Lizard-like aliens to crush them. I know what you're thinking: But what about when the Lizard-aliens take over? That's the best part of the plan. When winter rolls around, the Lizard-aliens will just freeze to death. Problem solved.
Subtractive 3D printer? (Score:2)
A subtractive 3D printer is called a 5 axis machining center they exist and are used in manufacturing every day all around the world... geez!
See here for a demonstration http://youtu.be/RnIvhlKT7SY