Cymek said:
CrazyNeutrino said:
Fluid motion allows a robot to use 40% less energy without losing speed
If you’ve ever watched an industrial robot in action it’s clear to see they are very fast, very precise, and very repetitive. They can work much faster than a human doing the same task, and scaled up it can produce a much more efficient production line. However, their efficiency is surprisingly not great when it comes to energy use.
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I wonder how industrial robots energy requirements compare in costs to a human, is it cheaper in electricity than it would be to feed a person to do the same job less efficiently
“fluid” is the wrong word here. “dynamic” is better.
I’ve been saying this for many years. Every robot needs to be designed by solving Newton’s equation of motion (conservation of momentum), and optimised using a technique similar to “critical damping”. But this is missing from so many robots that it’s a crime. Industrial robot design both for parts assembly and for legged robots has so far ignored the existence of momentum. Although in the past couple of years a few robot legs have taken this into account, one pair of robot legs reduces energy usage by more like 99% than 40%.
