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Bossy Assembly Robot Says You're Doing It Wrong

by Tim Stevens on August 24, 2008 at 10:35 AM


Industrial robots are big, stupid, and dangerous. Walk between an automated welder and the SUV it's assembling and you'll find yourself fused to the frame, destined to sit unwanted at the back corner of some dealer's lot. But, keeping bots and humans separated on an assembly line isn't always practical.

Enter ARoS, a machine that's not only capable of working safely with people, but being totally condescending while doing it! In a demonstration video it repeatedly tells its hapless helper how incompetent he is, then, after putting on one lousy nut itself, says "I enjoyed your help!" We figure he says that to all the meat-bags, but you can see and decide for yourself after the break. [From New Scientist via Digg]

Tags: aros, assembly line, AssemblyLine, robot, University of Minho, UniversityOfMinho

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