As with my last video: this happened because Autodesk paid for my travel to San Francisco! But as with everywhere I've worked with recently, they had no control over content, script or final cut: they just asked if I wanted to film stuff at their Pier. (And given what's in the Pier, it didn't take me long to say yes...)

"A computer will do whatever you ask it to, even if it's not what you meant." as a programmer, this is painfully true

knock knock open up the door it's real with the non-stop robot doing stainless steel

this is how sponsored content should look!

This reminded me of the day my machine tool class visited a local technical trade school. One of the things we were suppose to do is see how robotic arms are programmed. While the instructor was talking a student was demonstrating. To this day I still haven't figured out how he managed to do this but the arm did the exact opposite of what he wanted and destroyed a brick wall. Why it was that close to the wall, I have no idea, but last I heard they decided not to rebuild the wall.

you are a better than I - I would have made a joke about bare metal programming.

We still use assembler for many different applications. Because it is down at the register level, where you have to tell the processor to send information to and from the memory, there are a lot of little tricks we can do to save time on certain processes that you can't do with C or higher level languages. It might only be a few micro seconds per cycle of the program/subroutine, but in situations where you need to go down to assembler it will be doing hundreds of cycles a second. So yeah, high level languages are great for programming some things, don't count out good old assembler just yet!

I'm not liking this new member of Daft Punk.

You, sir, have a talent to find nerds all around the world, it seems.

Trivia: The robot is a Swedish robot from the vendor ABB. The robot's name is ABBA which is an old Swedish pop group from the 70's. So the robots name is pretty much a far fetched joke about Swedish stuff.

Feels like this video is just for advertising Autodesk. The technologies discussed are old news, machines today are capable of being aware of their environments through sensors.

When he said ‘assembly language’ I went “ohhh nooo” aloud, since I tried learning some assembly language a while back, and gave up when I realized that you store values and call the kernel or some crap like that to do functions. Hello world suddenly got a lot more complicated.

Mamma Mia, an ABBA robot. Gimme gimme gimme.

only Tom Scott can get a sponsored video that doesn't conflict with his channel at all. I'm really enjoying these, Tom!

Even if you have the kill switch, would you have enough time to react if the robot swung at you unexpectedly?

Toms smile at 0:40 : D

They added an A to their ABB robots? :)

1:31 Tom pulls down his welding mask and his voice quality doesn't change. I call shenanigans! Also, *PINK ASTRODROID!*

It's sometimes mind boggling when you think about all the millenia of human ingenuity that has let to the point where we have robots 3D welding metal structures. Incredible minds in this video.

The world's first 3-D printing Swedish pop band. Amazing.

Of course, I meet Matt when I go out and about and when I get home Tom's uploaded. This has been a good day.

I've occasionally done something similar with laser welding in my lab, but we've just been building walls, nothing fancy. We don't have any closed loop feedback on our robots, though I sometimes use a software plugin that can generate robot code from complex parametric paths for our more complex stuff.

We tom scott fans are so lucky. Tom posts so much content and its all top notch.

As a professional welder I find this absolutely fascinating! I've seen a few types of robot welders but nothing like this.

I still can't wrap my head around the fact that a working jet engine has been 3D printed...

No worries about the disclosure dude, Autodesk and Lincoln Electric are both amazing companies, and definitely on the cutting edge of fabrication science. No shame in giving them the spotlight for a bit. This is the future. We CAN have a car 3d printed in about 10 years. Thanks for sharing!

AutoDesk is an amazing company! They support students with free software and developed powerful tools for industries! You rock Autodesk

I can see so many applications for this in the aviation industry. Imagine parts of the aircraft or even engines being made this way. It would still require years of fine-tuning before that can be practical and safe to ensure quality control but the possibilities are almost limitless.

After welding theory course all I can think about od the shitload of energy it wastes.

Someone has been a bit cheeky with the ABB logo on that robot :D At least both are Swedish. (ABB is part Swiss also though)

Now we're that much closer to downloading and printing cars

As far as I know they are commercial systems now, but about 6 years ago (when I started uni) the head of materials engineering there had a 3D printer that printed things in aluminium. He basically did as many public demos as possible in order to justify printing his own (quite big) chess set. Seems amazing that we've advanced this far so quickly. That system was bounded to objects being about 2x2x2 metres, and required a tonne of maintenance to operate. Even then it required everything to be painstakingly planned out.

What exactly is the purpose of whatever that robot was 3D printing? Was it just art or a way of proving/testing the machine's capabilities? Or does it have a practical industrial purpose?

It's weird to rewatch these years-old videos about people on the leading edge of science and technology. I often wind up wondering where they and their research are at now.

I love fun sites like Unbox Therapy - that have millions of subscribers. But I love Tom Scott's video's WAY more. Not because of the host's - they are charming in their own way. But the subject matter Mr. Scott covers is FAR more varied and fascinating to me then what Unbox Therapy (and other 'fun' sites) covers. So why does Tom Scott have only 700K subscribers and Unbox Therapy (and other very popular but essentially light/fun sites) has many millions of subscribers? I don't get it. I have been watching tons of Tom Scott's videos over the past few days...and I have learned a ton and been entertained as well.

Having the pivot control is required to do welding, as you usually need to apply the weld at specific angles.

Tom - excellent video as always. I had a personal experience with a robot failure some years ago. I was working at a company doing surgical robotics when the robot arm (much smaller than the one shown - could easily fit on a small table) suddenly moved at full speed, missed my head by 3 inches and slammed into a wall making a huge hole in it. That was caused by a division by 0 error in the robot controller, which was using assembly code. We switched to another robot that used C/C++ and had much better fail-safe mechanisms in place to prevent that from happening in the first place. Having written assembly many years ago, it's a real bitch. You only use it when absolutely necessary.

Cool, glad to see Lincoln doing 3D printing.

I've played with that UR robot (the one with the blue elbows) before. They are indeed fun!

Thank you! As a robot obsessed, welder, programmer and lover of 3d printing this is awesome!

Autodesk has made some of my favourite software. I had no idea they had robots too.

I'm suddenly reminded of Robot Wars. Anyone remember that old show, where people would battle homemade robots? Watching that was a highlight of my childhood.

1:53 gimme gimme gimme a robot after midnight

Fascinating stuff! 3D printing in metal - the applications are possibly endless.

I've seen the avoid human behavior in self-driving floor cleaners at my local grocery store.

The big one's called Ash? Groovy!

Great presentation on programing robots. But as your video title stated, 3D printing stainless steel, I would suggest you visit the GE factory where they make complicated 3-d turbine blades using a more sophisticated method.

This was really cool. Thanks, Tom.

Wow! 3D printing (actual 3D) with steel and on those size scales must be many engineers' wet dream! :D

there's a pink r2d2

Ah the steel 3D printer! Designed by Brunel himself.

When I saw the thumbnail I thought Tom was wearing a Daft Punk helmet. Awesome video Tom!

Autodesk? Instructables? That was a nice surprise!

I love the cheeky little additional "A" on the robot.

Autodesk does more than I thought it did.

This autoplaying after the "Automated Weapons" video is... prophetic.

Thanks, Tom!

There are robotics that sense people and do so so effectively that they are considered OSHA safe to the point that traditional safety spaces are no longer needed. It's pretty cool.

You had me at 3D.

+Tom Scott - how have you not been snapped up by the likes of Nat Geo? I recently stumbled over one of your videos, and I am well and truly hooked (and subscribed, of course!); Please keep your videos coming, and please don't change your style - I am yet to see a dud video from you. Thank you :)

When it comes to robots and ai etc there is always that part in my mind that goes this is how the terminator starts that stops me from fully enjoying just how amazing some of these things are.

OMG, they called their biggest one "Ash" - great Alien ref! :)

That. Was. AWESOME!!

ABBA! ABB Autodesk, I presume? Quite a geeky word play there! Awesome content!

Two of my favourite things, programming and welding.

Come to Pittsburgh take a ride in a driverless uber.

I do hope you stopped by and saw Norm while you were over there. :) oh and great video.

I wasn't sure about you getting money but this is damn cool.

What a pice of work Congratulations on your excellent quality videos Tom. You are getting so much better

Also, I wish interviews like this were a tad bit more technical. His high level descriptions beg for some kind of implementation details, like the "feedback loop" that lets the software know the "quality" of the print. I wish they defined quality, and how the software can measure it

Did you get to play with the special feature of the universal robots robot arm. the button on the back of the control panel, if you press it, you can move it just by taking a hold of the robot and move and simply by applying a small amount of force to the robot arm. Each joint know how much force to expect by talking to the other joints, so it can feel you trying to move it, and when the button it pressed it follow along. so it takes the same force from you to move it up as down.

That's cool to see here. From the intitute I work at a start up was initiated from, that works on learning robots to move the way wanted by letting a human wearing a special jacket and glove do the movement. The trained robot then copies it.

This is really awesome. Makes me wonder where 3D printing will be in 5 or 10 years.

Don't be afraid of assembler. Bare metal programming is fun, and the best way to talk to hardware.

Did you produce this video yourself? It's extremely professional :D and I question why you needed to put the safety goggles on... under the mask, I would've thought the mask would be protective enough? I've had the pleasure of seeing modern robotic arms at Lincoln University (UK) and they showed how they can program it by moving the arm physically, with their hands, then recording the positions. They also had it spin around whilst keeping the tip exactly still and it's almost hard to look at because of how incredibly precise it was, you couldn't see the tip move even a millimeter! Incredible stuff. I don't know why we need these machines though, I mean the government cause enough job cuts as it is, and robots will cause even less jobs to be needed - you'll have a few people running an entire factory and their job will be to sit in a chair sipping coffee while the robots do most of the work, and all the human would have to do is make sure nothing goes wrong, which with precision robots like these, is unlikely. Anyway, incredible video as always, you teach me more than school ever did!

nice video, Cyberman Tom

An orbital launch vehicle made with technology developed at Pier 9 should have its debut flight soon.

now there's a nuclear reactor being built by a 3d printer like this

This is so freaking cool.

3m Speedglas- best hoods out there!

I would love to work on this project as I am a programmer and a weldor And working for Autodesk would be my top achievement since I love all their software.

Anyone know of other youtube channels on par with Tom's informative and interesting videos? I'd love to see more like this

3:51 I feel like that placard should say "Beware of Attack Robot." But at least I'm glad to see they did include "Class II and IV-a droids prohibited" on that placard, I don't know what those are but googling them came up with a bunch of Wookieepedia entries so I assume it's something Star Wars, thus they did at least get to slip in a geek reference of some sort, even if subtle.

This is a nice example of humanity working _with_ robots, instead of robots doing everything for us, which is how people normally think about it.

I. Want. That. Pink. R2.

Any other time-lapse videos of that thing "printing" sculptures? Sort of like what you had at the end of the video, but I'd love to see a finished product.

Love the video, Tom! Hope there's more coming from Pier 9 :)

PLEASE make a video on Theresa Mays 'Snoopers Charter' and why it's a shite idea.

Use an ABB irb6600 to do this is like asking to a body builder to do sewing. There is a lot of other light weight arc-welding models to do that.

I have used auto desk in school its quite a good program

One step closer to Skynet...Robots building Robots!

Adding an A after ABB on the robot was pretty funny.

Abba, think that's AllenBradley something something... I went to high school in the late 90s near Detroit, my school had a robotics program that relied on cast off industrial machines from the auto industry. Back then vision systems and force feedback were bleeding edge. The languages I was using back then were smart enough to procedurally generate positions based on known positions, like an approach position that's so many mm back along the tool axis from the grab position. Nothing like this though.

Lincoln Electric jacket - nice

I'm graduating in materials and nanotechnologies engeneering and i'm doing a research about metal additive manufacturing right now.... what a coincidence!

Oh, cool. I saw some RepRap people doing this (minus the 6DOF and closed-loop stuff) a few years ago with an upside-down Delta bot moving a plate under a stationary welder. Josh Pearce group maybe? They published scientific papers, whoever it was. They got reasonable results, I was surprised! The parts they were making were crude, but they looked usable with minimal hand-finishing.

It was really nice of Tom to take time out of DJing with Daft Punk to make this video.

Convert shapes into machine code, notice when it's out of materials - regular 3d printers do that. The one new thing in this video was just that it can evaluate the quality of the actual physical print based on the actual results. And why don't they install proximity sensors if they want it to notice people getting near the robot?

Is this the same Autodesk that makes apps for smart devices? If so I love working with the Pixlr app! And thank you for making it free!