[Jeff Waegelin]

Originally Posted by jwallace15

A few years ago, Multimove was developed. Multimove is an innovative way to make industrial robots move together in unison. For example: say that I want to have 1 robotic arm move an engine block while another robot applies sealant to the edges (random example). If the sealant robot is tethered to the engine block robot, no matter where the engine block is moved, the sealant robot will stay with the engine block (as long as it doesn't move outside of the robot's reach). Here is a video example.
(if you weren't impressed, watch this video)

As for other things, ABB's Flexpicker is an unmatchable robot in positioning things on conveyors. Here is an example of this. The Flexpicker has been around for nearly 10 years... Fanuc just only came out with their version of the Flexpicker last year.

I worked at ABB for two years as a summer intern, and I always thought the FlexPicker and MultiMove were two of the coolest things I've ever seen. I got to set up a couple demos for the MultiMove right as it was getting rolled out, and I was floored the first time I saw a couple of IRB140s moving in perfect synchronization.