A PRODUCTION ROBOT CAN BE REPROGRAMMED
This is Fanuc: heavyset, yellow, and dilapidated, but still fast as
lightning. He was pensioned off after a 140,000 hour non-stop
career in a Chinese production line. Dirk van der Kooij has given
him new software and with that, a new lease of life as a prototyping
machine. Normally speaking, rapid prototyping is unsuitable for
large-scale production: constructing 3D-models in extremely
high resolutions is too time-consuming and costly. But Fanuc
has a much lower resolution, which allows him to produce robust
models at a steady pace. The coarse structure reveals how the
product has been constructed layer by layer.
Endless combines the flexibility of traditional workmanship
with the speed of industrial production.