Rapid Pancake Sorting Robot


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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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@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.
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