eaglewood
Supporting Member
The objective: Reach about 10’ horizontally into a 1300F furnace, and pick up a 140lb rectangular container, then pull the container back out of the furnace and place it on the ground, about 2’ down.
It might help to picture a pizza oven. Reach into that hot environment, retrieve a pizza (only it’s rectangular, 140lb, and 20” tall), and place it on the counter.
I’ve already got mechanical designs that are functioning fine. But the idea here is to improve it and set it up for a possible automation project it in the future.
A sort of robot arm that can withstand high temps is the current interest. But I’ve not worked with robot arms before, and also there may be some other ways to achieve the design objective.
It might help to picture a pizza oven. Reach into that hot environment, retrieve a pizza (only it’s rectangular, 140lb, and 20” tall), and place it on the counter.
I’ve already got mechanical designs that are functioning fine. But the idea here is to improve it and set it up for a possible automation project it in the future.
A sort of robot arm that can withstand high temps is the current interest. But I’ve not worked with robot arms before, and also there may be some other ways to achieve the design objective.