KUKA youBot Is A Bot For You, If You Have Lots Of Money
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 16 of June , 2010 at 12:41 am
KUKA, best known for their industrial arms that can surf, serve ice cream, and destroy RVs with bowling balls, have decided that would be kinda cool if you could pick up one of their arms without having to resort to auto plant liquidation auctions. The KUKA youBot is a cute little 5 DoF arm mounted on an omnidirectional platform containing battery packs and a small computer to control everything. Best of all, it’ll be running open source controller software (yay!). Here are the hardware specs:
-youBot arm: Serial kinematics with 5 degrees of freedom (655mm height, 0.513 m³ work envelope, 6kg weight, 0.5kg payload, 0.1 mm repeatability, 80W power limit (for safety)). Fix axes serial structure with a two finger gripper at the flange. Links are made of very lightweight, but stiff magensium cast. Custom, lightweight motor-gear combinations.
-youBot gripper: detachable, 2-finger gripper attached to the arm (10mm stroke/finger = 20m opening stroke; different mounting allows to grip objects up to 70mm diameter)
-youBot platform: omnidirectional mobile platform with 4 KUKA omniWheels (530x360x106mm, 15 mm clearance, 20kg total weight, 20kg payload, 0.8m/s speed, EtherCAT communication, 24V)
-Energy supply: one set of two batteries (Two 12 V, 5 Ah, maintenance-free lead acid rechargeable batteries; approximate runtime: 90 minutes) embedded into mobile platform
-On-board PC: mini ITX board form factor (embedded CPU, passively cooled, 512 MB RAM, 4 GB Compact Flash, WLAN, USB), embedded into the mobile platform
It’s notable that the youBot doesn’t come with a vision system (or much of anything in the way of sensors), but KUKA says that they’ll have accessories available at some point, including a laser range finder, a stereo camera system, and a 3D camera system, which I guess is not the same as a stereo camera system. These things will add to the price of the base unit, though.
Each basic youBot will cost about $24,000 when it becomes available next spring, although KUKA has promised significant discounts (on the order of 25%) to universities and early adopters. That strikes me as a bit much, but that little baby KUKA arm sure is adorable… You can buy one of those separately for only $16k.
[ KUKA youBot ] VIA [ IEEE ]
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