Watching this robot stack 450 hot cakes a minute will hypnotize you

The IRB 360 FlexPicker is one of those secret industrial robots lurking shadows, building other robots in preparation for the apocalypse, assembling circuit breakers, stacking pancakes at rapid speeds or whatever else its high precision and flexibility allows. The point is, FlexPicker is a badass, and machines that make machines are often way cooler than the machines themselves. Tongue
twisters aside, FlexPicker can stack 450 hot pancakes in a minute!

FlexPicker is a delta robot at its core, consisting of three arms connected to universal joints at the base and a parallelogram in the arms to maintain the orientation of the end effector. A quick history lesson: these bots were invented in 1980 by professor Reymond Clavel, from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, as means of manipulating light objects at very high speeds. While originally being proposed for packing, deltabots have made their way into the medical, pharmaceutical, and electronic industries as well. Their stiff and precise movements make them ideal for surgery and circuit assembly operations. Deltabots can even be rigged as 3D printers as can be seen in the Peachy Printer.

Watch the video below to see FlexPicker in action

Via Gizmodo