If you were sitting around today thinking, “God, I wish someone would create a terrifyingly quick assembly-line robot that could potentially tear me limb from limb in a matter of seconds” – then you’re in luck, because we’ve got that exact robot.
The ABB IRB 340 FlexPicker is the fastest industrial robot in the world, which means that not only can it make your food, package your candy and make your fax machines at terrifying speeds, it also means that you’re quickly becoming outsourced to robotics, so, you know, hurray!
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The IRB 340 FlexPicker has 10g of acceleration – meaning it can go to zero to 280 miles per hour in a single second. That’s right, it can go to zero to 280 MPH at least 5 or 6 times faster than it took you to read the previous sentence.
Robot revolutions acomin’!
The robot’s pincer or claw, whatever you’d like to call it, can do over 150 picks per minute, deal with two kilos of stuff, and even includes a camera that can check products in case they’re moldy, broken, or make the robots feel.
We’re not sure when these guys will begin to be mass produced and start replacing us as the overlords of the planet, but we’re thinking in the near future.
Not terrified enough? Check out the video below and read more about the FlexPicker on the ABB site!
