Archive for July 8th, 2009

Stunning Brilliant Robotic Grapple

July 8th, 2009 by moresnow | No Comments | Filed in Awards, Crane, Demolition Excavators, Science, software

For many operators of equipment out there this is a mix of way too much coffee, redbull, and powerful computing. There is around 15 tonnes of steel, 200 bar of hydraulic pressure and a control system written in Python. Oh, and a Wiimote.

The machines can spin around about 72km per hour.

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