#robotics Logs

Mar 29 2022

07:38 AM ace4016: i think most would be provided by a business, for a business, so you'd either have to have a business, be rich, or have a shared workshop/workspace ("hackerspace") that multiple people are funding
07:46 AM ace4016: or just find an affordable service willing to rent out to you
10:57 AM justanotheruser: where can I rent a cobot which I'm able to load my own software on?
11:01 AM mrdata: <ace4016> i think most would be provided by a business, for a business, so you'd either have to have a business, be rich, or have a shared workshop/workspace ("hackerspace") that multiple people are funding
11:01 AM mrdata: <ace4016> or just find an affordable service willing to rent out to you
11:02 AM justanotheruser: thanks, missed that
11:02 AM justanotheruser: idk about rich, I'm hoping for a 100 day rental for under $10,000
11:03 AM justanotheruser: where can I find a hackerspace with such a robot?
11:04 AM mrdata: whats the nearest city
11:04 AM justanotheruser: boston
11:05 AM mrdata: https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Boston
11:05 AM mrdata: https://www.boston.com/news/innovation/2013/07/16/hackerspaces-in-boston/
11:05 AM mrdata: not sure how current this info is
11:07 AM justanotheruser: unfortunately none of those appear to have a cobot
11:12 AM mrdata: maybe start at who makes them
11:12 AM mrdata: https://www.analyticsinsight.net/top-10-smart-cobot-makers-to-look-out-for-in-2022/
11:13 AM ace4016: it looks like most of those companies are more focused on selling the bots than renting, so it'll be a "buy the bot; develop after recieving"
11:14 AM justanotheruser: It may be smarter to just buy a used cobot, then sell it
11:18 AM justanotheruser: https://www.ebay.com/itm/325108827101?hash=item4bb1ff03dd:g:2vIAAOSw-G5iNbq6
11:25 AM mrdata: $25k is rather pricey tho
11:25 AM mrdata: i suppose you'd spend as much in effort to make your own
11:25 AM justanotheruser: I'd spend $500,000 in effort making my own
11:26 AM justanotheruser: would be a nightmare
11:35 AM mrdata: how do you know that
11:35 AM mrdata: you can buy motors; cut metal tubes and beams
11:35 AM mrdata: so what's the major cost? software?
11:35 AM enleth: mrdata: $25k is peanuts compared to what an actual industrial robot arm costs to make
11:35 AM enleth: laughably tiny peanuts
11:36 AM justanotheruser: and there is no way I'm building a robot arm with the same properties of the URE5 for under the price of a URE5
11:38 AM mrdata: that one starts at $5k
11:38 AM mrdata: not bad
11:39 AM justanotheruser: just the arm does
11:39 AM mrdata: yeah
11:40 AM justanotheruser: looks liket he whole thing went for $7.5k in the past https://www.ebay.com/itm/115313417881?hash=item1ad9371e99:g:BOEAAOSw52xiP5tE
11:43 AM mrdata: ok