Frida Robot by ABB

I never cease to be amazed by what you can accomplish with robotics. Just take a look at this FRIDA concept by ABB.

A robotic system designed to replace a human worker, with 7 degrees of freedom arms, capable of doing whatever a human arm can do - and more.

Unlike traditional 6 DOF robotic arms, the 7th degree gives it the same "natural" ability to maneuver in constraint spaces - that exactly why evolution gave us the arms we have today.

... Now, if only these kind of systems could be bought at an affordable price, so that we could finally have some robot helpers at home taking care of the "boring" stuff... (though in same cases we're doing it already :)

Industrial Automation

There are still many who believe a robot is unable to do some tasks usually performed by humans. But, when you see the things these ABB IRB 340 robotics arms can do, you may start thinking differently.

Just check this video:



These robotic arms are able to do up to 150 "pick and place" operations per second, with payloads of up to 2kg, and 10G acceleration (equivalent to going from 0 to 280mph in one single second!)

If that's not enough to impress you, I don't know what will! :)