Laid-off Autoworker Robots Get New Jobs In Film Industry
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Thursday, 29 of April , 2010 at 1:24 am
Robots may be getting laid-off left and right due to the lousy economy, but at least they’re easily retrainable, and as long as you’ve got some programming know-how, you can get them to do all kinds of exciting things. One company called Autofuss has taken a trio of ex-industrial six axis Fanuc s430iL robots and turned them into professional camerabots. As you’d expect, they’re very fast and extremely precise, and as long as you don’t need them to, uh, move or anything, they can produce spectacularly smooth and complex shots over and over without screwing up or complaining.
Recently, the Autofuss robots (they’re named Puck, Gilda, and Rosie) worked on an ad for Louis Vuitton. The robots aren’t actually doing much fancy moving, but the commercial has Sally Ride and Buzz Aldrin and Jim Lovell in it, so that’s pretty awesome all by itself. Check it out, after the jump.
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Comment by whiskers
Made Thursday, 29 of April , 2010 at 7:43 am
Using auto robots for filming is a great idea. With that said, I am not sure what the hell that commercial was about. They didn’t use the robots much and what does Louis Vuitton have to do with astronauts and robots? I guess, I can see a connection between luggage and the astronauts ‘journeys’ but still… cheesy.
Comment by Nappy Rash
Made Wednesday, 1 of December , 2010 at 9:21 am
the film industry is of course a multi billion dollar industry that employs a lot of people *“
Comment by Kori Conoly
Made Wednesday, 24 of August , 2011 at 11:41 pm
I will be floored at the items I overlooked prior to I read this publish.
