Some robots can move almost faster than the human eye can see and certainly faster than humans can get out of the way. You put them in a marked out space or a closed off space and make sure humans aren't there and if humans get in there the robot shuts off (you hope). It's not new. I remember seeing it in a large tape robot in a very big purpose-built cupboard in 2002.
On 2020/05/12 4:18 pm, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > On 12/05/2020 11:52 am, Roger Clarke wrote: >> [I've no idea what a 'robotic cell' is, nor why a worker was in it] > > https://blog.robotiq.com/what-is-robot-cell-deployment-and-what-it-isnt > > To call it a robot and invoke the mystical First Law of Robotics is the > usual vendor exaggeration. It's automation. > > Essentially a robotic cell is a single machine that has pre-programmed > actions. The pre-programming may be complex and responds logically and > deterministicaly to input data from sensors. > > The failure is either in the safety sensors (assuming there are any) or > in the logic in the software. > > Whatever the cause, it is a case of human error - someone did not > account for all possibilities in the software or did not maintain the > equipment so false data was input. Even then it could be argued that not > enough redundancy was built in to avoid single points of failure. > _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
