This video by ABB Robotics demonstrates a sorting robot used in a pancake factory. The action starts at about 1:15, when the robot begins sorting 400 pancakes per minute, switching off so that specific sizes are in a specific order. Just imagine how we could benefit if this machine was applied to soylent green production.
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Skipweasel
I dunno – the rest seem perfectly OK to me. I reckon the spec are needlessly tight.
argon
its a interesting technological developement but its just nut as good without oompa loompas :\
Pancake Lover
i like when i make pancakes in my own frying pan at home . . .
Don Newbury
I find these machines fascinating When I watch “How It’s Made,” it’s always the machines that do the actual work that fascinate me the most. Somebody actually has to think these things out. I will say however that the narrator made me think I was watching an old Monty Python satire.
SenorMysterioso
Nevermind the pancake grabbing machine, Im surprised there is such a thing as a pancake factory. People buy premade pancakes? Wouldnt they get rubbery.
Watching all those pancakes did give me a craving, think I’ll go whip up a few.
SenorMysterioso
OK just realized Ive seen frozen microwavable things in the grocery store but Ive never tried them. I guess it would be slightly faster than homemade but I cant imagine them being any good.
Kevin
Every fast food restaurant like McDonalds that has breakfast usually has pancakes. This is where they come from.
Ali S.
Man! That was interesting, however, I don’t like the taste of pre-made pancakes.
Allimar
Erm…if this thing is for, among other things, improving health and safety, then why do the sorters touch the pancakes barehanded right before they enter the robot? Doesn’t that sort of defeat the purpose?
Nate
What about those “pancakes” makes you think that they aren’t Soylent Green?
Battleangel
I used to build stuff like this before I got laid off. It was the coolest job ever.
Stefan
@Allimar
Good observation! I was thinking the same thing. Also the pancakes are only reduced to room temperature…most good food handling requires that it be as fast as possible reduced to refrigerator temperatures.
ted
Speaking of solynet green, did anybody else notice the use of the phrase “final solution”?
Food for thought…
Daisy
I’ve had these so called pancakes in the past. Never again. They are more like flat rubbery sponges then real pancakes one can make at home.
Misc.
Rob – Reduced labor because they still need human sorters before the pancakes enter the automated section.
lozlick
I say we pit these machines against those freaky cup-stacking kids…
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