This is a fun video from the shop today. I managed to get my hands on some Universal Robots UR3’s from another local company. But, while they can carry the payloads I need for my parts, they don’t have enough reach to get inside my Haas TM’s.
Some folks on Instagram suggested I build a 7th Axis Extender so that the robot can move in and out of the CNC to extend its reach. This is the first test run where it successfully loaded and unloaded a part from the machine.
It’s a bit shaky, but the approach looks really promising… it’s cool because you can use a much cheaper arm to do machine tending if you extend the reach a bit! #robots #cnc #machinetending #universalrobots #cobot
