Bot and Dolly + RED

[Mathew Medeiros]

GLaDOS, anyone?

[Dmitry Burenok]

BTW bot and dolly looks like they use base platform of some welding robots from automotive industry. Guess it quite logical - guys from Detroit :)

[Chris Jordan]

Sugareffect is currently in the market actually. We will let you know what we find....

[Mark Toia]

AIR PUNCH! !! Yeah!

Years ago I had a fight with a motion control rig... it won.

[Petr Dvorak]

Are they selling these?

Tom you already can buy old industrial robots for few thousand bucks
http://www.ebay.com/sch/universalrob...&_trksid=p3686

This artist is using old industrial robot fro printing chairs.
http://inhabitat.com/dirk-vander-koo...ycled-e-waste/

https://vimeo.com/33026239

some more robot dancing
https://vimeo.com/43083157

[Robert L. Mickles]

Awesome!

[Dmitry Burenok]

So you see it is not really a rocket science :) ANY kind of industrial robotics arm outperform in accuracy (it is usually INSANELY accurate), payload, and any other requirements for handling a film camera. It is just a matter of right programming for software. Maybe I can be more optimistic for the price estimation.

[Zach Swena]

Tom you already can buy old industrial robots for few thousand bucks

Something to note though with industrial robots is some of them have limitations in their movement ranges, or singularity points where it is hard to precisely control velocity and acceleration. I think this might be a controller issue though.

So you see it is not really a rocket science :) ANY kind of industrial robotics arm outperform in accuracy (it is usually INSANELY accurate), payload, and any other requirements for handling a film camera. It is just a matter of right programming for software. Maybe I can be more optimistic for the price estimation.

there certainly is room for optimism on the price front. Control is really where the difficulty lies. Robot OS would be a good place to start with an industrial PC based control system.

[Russ Fill]

Really cringed when it was flying the camera at the floor.... So cool. I wonder if you could pull off some of those moves with a film camera just due to the force at fast moves.
Thanks for sharing .

[Rocco Schult]

Looks amazing, and what better than to have our camera in the promo =]. A friend sent me this video, some amazing work and shots captured using the system (not sure if the exact one or similar).

they happen to use another camera and another (self-brew) software. the arm is likely similar or same, but many modify the existing encoders and/or motors. (there have been quite a few attempts to using an industrial robot..)