Today I won't provide you with boring code but instead talk about something a lot of people would not believe possible. Some people already know that Sun has a commercial "Real-Time" system for Java. A group of people have developed a robot controller powered by Java. To achieve their goal, they used a commercial industrial robot from the ABB company: The ABB IRB 340 Flexpicker, one of the fastest (10 G of acceleration) robot in the world. Because seeing is believing, here is the video:
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I was amazed! Now, can you imagine yourself hacking an industrial robot controller with your favorite Java IDE?
Saturday, September 6, 2008
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