TROBOT: A Miniature Articulated Robot

The TROBOT is a miniature six-axis articulated robot, modeled after large industrial & assembly line robots. The prototype versions were developed to be interfaced with ABB's Robot Studio software. Robot Studio was designed to program, simulate, and debug real industrial robots in an offline virtual environment. This project uses the power of ABB's 'Virtual Robot Controller' to actually generate robot positional data and to communicate directly to the TROBOT over Ethernet.


See the TROBOT in action here:

Complete detailed project documentation and source code can be found here:

• TROBOT 3.0, Honorable Mention – TI Design Stellaris 2010

• TROBOT 2.0, Honorable Mention – WizNET iMCU 2010

A new Kickstarter project is underway to develop a larger, more robust version of the TROBOT.  Backers of this project can select from rewards including complete TROBOT 3.0 (as shown here) or 4.0 (coming soon) kits.  For more information checkout the project TROBOT 4.0: A Miniature Articulated Robot  and find out how you can get your own TROBOT kit (Limited Time Only)!

Step 1 TROBOT 1.0

The TROBOT was created after I figured out a way to use ABB's Robot Studio software to communicate over Ethernet. I created the TROBOT just to see if I could make a miniature robot work --It worked surprisingly well. Now my goal is to create a low-cost robot that can do something significant.  

Comments

[lukra4eva]

I'm glad that you made it work but you failed to understand the purpose of this website. Its not even a tutorial or anything. You're just showing off while marketing the kit to sell it.

[tbaumg]

This project is already heavily documented at the links shown in this instructable. I simply don’t have the time to create a detailed instructable for a project I’m no longer working on. My current focus is developing the next one which will be heavily documented somewhere on the web - maybe here maybe not.

[hellaroms]

can you make them arm wrestle?

[Tinker83]

seems kind of flimsy and wobbly to me... not nearly as sharp and smooth as the fullsize ABB welders i've worked with

[tbaumg]

It is kinda flmsy. It was designed (quick and cheap) to prove I could interface it with ABB’s Robot Studio. Now that I know how, I’m building a more robust & more powerful one (which should be done by the end of this year). You can follow along with the new development project here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tbaumg/trobot-40-a-miniature-articulated-robot

[njkl44]

how much did this cost?

[tbaumg]

Less than $100

[tinker234]

wow hey i would like to make a upscale model in my workshop could i

[Bongmaster]

neat :)