Real world use?

And now I can't unsee a robot riding a bike in a race.

What a funky little fellow.

The little black line makes my day better

I imagine the guy who designed this hated inverse kinematics so came up with the ideal constraints to make the problem simpler.

Make it do the stickbug dance

This makes it easy to implement mechanics in glass and steelworks because neither electricity nor hydraulics have to go into the hot areas and you have a cheap option to carry out 3D movement on a long axis.

That sharpie line instantly transformed it into a cute, metallic chameleon 😂

Whoever made this was a genius!

This would be awesome as a camera dolly/slider for more complex movements. Plus it's just really cool.

That is some ninja metal frog ya got there!

The coordinated swinging movement gives the impression of something living. Very cool!

That would be REALLY cool for 3D printing

I can't decide if it looks cute or evil

Adding the sharpie mouth really brought the whole “robot-train-crab” together.

My cousin is currently studying robotics. She'll be delighted to see one And that tripteron robot has a TON of uses! From 3d printing to stable moving platform, etc

One of the most beautiful mechanisms I've ever seen.

The line for the face made me giggle

Ngl these feels like something that would be in a sci-fi setting on some rails, maybe acting as a repair thing or smth

New fear unlocked: spider terminators ☠️

That would be yo most terrifying train ride ever

now he's got a smile and he looks chilled af.....

This could be great if applied to additive/subtractive manufacturing. I know you have previously said there is no current plan to commercialize this, but I see great benefits to this application as far as mobility.

i want to build one in Space Enginers now. dont know if it would be a better arm for anything but it looks so cool!

In the rain or in the snow Got the funky funky flow

This may be the cutest most adorable little mechanism I've ever seen. Personification of a mechanism feels so fun.

I love how you added the smiley to make it friendly :)

Makes me wish I was more competent in math, robotics looks so cool.

Nice 😊 at the end ...

Is there a patent for this mechanism? I want to prepare a graduation project for the kinematic calculation of this mechanism.

The fluidity of its movement, plus the force that it appears able to generate, make me wonder about, and hopeful for its potential in medtech. What an elegant design. I wonder if it was inspired by a swimming frog.

Relatively Space could probably use a robot arm like thing like this on a gantry setup over a rotating welding print table for making their rockets. This part would handle the fine movement of the material depositing/welding head. Like the lense of a CD player to be a steady "hand" for the laser. If by using 3 linear rails can allow for pitch and yaw movement as well, that would make this even cooler and more useful. Especially useful for working in a vacuum chamber, or with highly radioactive materials that can quickly degrade motors and electronics in close proximity to a source.

Robot has an attitude problem.

I love seeing those vertical milling marks on the central block! Sometimes, smooth, raw aluminum looks so good. Looks beautifully designed, machined, and assembled 👌

I could see it used in enviroment where vibrations and high speed moves are common occurence, looks like promising stabilization technology

It will work the same way even if you take away the two moving parts at all, and only double legged big single part will stay... Straight axis - long bottom bar, Z(height) - scisors principle by legs (45°) Right/left sides - moving motors inside scisors parts that move them different ways.

The secret is the smooth tracks that it runs on like glass. The real trick is using it in the real world without the tracks. Amazing machine, excellent concept and creation. Cool video.

It's movements are elegant and beautiful. So free, yet always so precise. Very nice indeed.

Thank you for the Breakdown. As a robotician i was trying to figure out how you could control it :)

I won't pretend to understand much of what you said. But, you're an innovator. I love innovators.

It's a very interesting design. The disadvantages might be that you need a lot of space for very limited x,y,z displacement. If you would scale it up because you want longer z axis travel, the arms would become very bulky.

From someone who would love to be an engineer this is really cool but it takes a lot of space for not a lot of movement and also there are A LOT of pinch points for wires running to some kind of head attachment.

It is fantastic. So smooth. It has personality

What got me to commit to subscribing was the knowledge and time taken to answer questions in the comments…I know nothing about the technical side robotics but enjoy solid epistemology in any context…robotics happens to be intriguing in that sense due to the fact that you all are still learning, creating/establishing new facts/concepts into the field.

It’s so amazing, it’s for the simplest x-y and Z

as long as it's not a precision or load bearing task this looks like an ideal plug and play solution for a lot of transferring and sorting tasks. Kind of surprised I haven't seen something like this loading a CNC machine.

Russians built a high speed hexapod based machining centre and a CMM , we saw it cutting a piece of AMS5663 inconel with a 10mm depth of cut and like it was soft butter, that was 20+ years back

The triptron can be moved as a unit by two angled gyros. Thus a no propulsion out the back push through euclidian spacetime.

Thank you for sharing your video. I hadn't realized that there were only 3 moving parts!

That’s freaking wild👍 I’m thinking beef it up big time, scale it way bigger… slap it in a quarry or something of that sort and you got an automated conveyor system of some kind

That machining and engineering looks beautiful

I'm so glad you gave it a line for a mouth. As soon as I saw this moving, I thought it looks like it's got a face without a mouth. It kind of reminds me of a chameleon swaying back and forth on a branch!

The first thought that I had when seeing this is that if you're capable of maintaining stiffness within say 10 thou, then it would be great for bringing about an insanely accurate laminar flow, so when carving you will be able to accurately carve out curves without the limitations which 3 axis drives currently have.

This could be used very well in small scale farming applications, idk why but I think it could be great for planting and watering stuff, even pruning overgrown portions

The way that thing moves is mesmerizing!

Complex part is calculating those hinged legs to force linear motion .

He looks so chill

Thats the coolest thing I've seen since the Apollo guidance system 👍🏻

I hate how there was a comment that was just like "real world application?" Bruh, You could ask IS there an intended application for its design. You don't have to be so rude, Not every single thing has to be created for a purpose. Let people just create things. Not everyone has to be on a constant grind.

Cool! Thanls for the quick and simple explainer. I definitely thought at first glance the programming would indeed be a nightmare!

Would love to see two of these playing ping pong with one another. I imagine this could balance objects really well? (Such as a broom or pool cue) This also reminds me of really solid boxer head movement. Cool design!

The face at the end made me love this thing 😂😂

I’d love one of those for creative camera shots, would make videos come to life

That is cool and so simple that I hope we see many in the future out in our world.

This actually look really cool!

If i woke up and saw that i would instantly catch EVERYTHING on fire

Little dude looks so chill

Vector addition in 3 dimensions with a 2 dimensional control love it.

This looks useful for both 3D printing and camera movement rigs.

That little line at the made my absolute day!

Man this just explained a lot about quadruped locomotion to me. Never quite saw it like that.

Hugo Elias at Virgin Freespace taught me about Inverse Kinematics 22 years ago.. I was just 10yrs back then....

Good mechanical design makes for easy software design.

Amazing complicated simplicity😃👍

Looks like a frog riding a motorcycle

If was able to remain perfectly level without the z axis moving up down it would make a good 3d print concept

Add a rotational axis and you've got a pretty sweet camera slider.

I see a movie about "track dwellers" living in a "linear (track) world"! I think this combination of this very suggestive agility and this "track bound" "existence" should be interesting to animation movie makers! I would love to see this!

Damn! It's really genius to use inverse kinematics for mechanical designs!

Feels like your average delta robot, but with all carriages combined in a single rail. Pretty cool

Looks like a badass ice skating sled pusher

and the most important part of this design was the marker mouth to pair with the perfectly machined eyes created by the screw socket mounting points.

Great rail design for a mobile house defense turret. It could navigate your whole house with a ceiling rail. it will be like something out of cyberpunk, but totally possible.

the look of this movement is ace, wish i could save the vid to reference an try in blender 3d

Perfect kinematics for a fast 3D printer with one extremely long axis.

The spider in my bathroom, trying to size-up the Raid can swifty approaching it.

This could be used to provide stability to a sensitive piece of equipment. I am in school for CNC, SOLIDWORKS, and manufacturing, and we were assigned a project to complete using SOLIDWORKS. I have 3D printer and I have wanted to design a set of adjustable 'feet' for it. I began designing one using SOLIDWORKS, however, it was a bit too complex for me and the time frame. One of my ideas is to use a 'DELTA' type of design. Obviously I can't provide ant form of sketch on a KZfaq post, but for those who are familiar with said design, you can use your imagination. Yes it will be relatively complex and over-kill for a 3D printer, but that's what I love about this field. Utilizing this technology, one could create a platform that could take into account all of the potential axis associated with stabilizing many types of machines. This is absolutely amazing, and yet it is relatively 'simple' design.

Ok dude that has a future in machining and milling methinks 🤔 cool video!

Crazy how just adding a line our brains create an entire being dancing on a limb

Without the line i was like 'that's pretty cool', with the line I'm on board as heck

I feel like the computer chip industry can benefit from this in someway after a couple years of selective improvements as it’s prob much cheaper than the robotics they use nowadays

When your chameleon goes Full Terminator.

That's a nightmare.! In any real world situation it would be inconceivable but for the ludicrously unimaginable. Certainly unique!

Great. Now I can't unsee a face even without the mark.

This could be really Effective and applying or removing material underneath something that cannot be flipped over whatsoever.

You could jump cargo with arms and bands and time the release the layers that add exponential acceleration

That's a cute little fellow. I wish KZfaq would replace all those short vids of cats of short vids of this little fella. I could get some really cool camera angles with this chap too. He'd also raise my stop motion game considerably. 🤤

Nah, the first reaction I had was that this had no other application than as an animatronic bug.

I know this wouldn't work for locomotion but man that looks like a cool robo spider

All I could think was that it looked like a bug dancing and the he goes and gives it a mouth and I absolutely lost it 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂