O/T Anyone seen this CNC machine Hexapod

Just think where this will be in a year or so. I invision a bot walking up to a small block and crawling all over it, surfacing the block ect.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=quN37YskoaM

 

Crazy!

 

the apocalypse is here... it just moves slowly

 

I must have been asleep, things are getting very technical.

 

this is why alot of americans are out of work. monster routers. their coming for your job next. we must design a monster router stopper, or a big bomb. thats really what we do best anyway.

 

next the damn thing will be doing our surgeries too. pretty amazing use of technology though

 

Got a love techy stuff. Go with it or go the way of the dinasour.

 

I saw this hexapode at N.I.S.T. in Gaithersburg, Md. It was mainly used to machine nuclear warhead parts. If that's a top secret (they didn't say it was) then I might not be here pretty soon but it was nice being a HAMB'er for a while.



The gray "tubing" you see wrapped around the lower cylinder above the tool holder is some stuff we make that was being tested to confirm that it improved the machine precision by an order of magnitude (X10) by controlling temperature. It worked but nobody cared too much so it's not commercialized for that purpose.