{"id":1259,"date":"2016-09-22T15:43:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T19:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mroelectric.com\/blog\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2020-05-14T09:42:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T13:42:09","slug":"yaskawa-motoman-swordfighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mroelectric.com\/blog\/yaskawa-motoman-swordfighter\/","title":{"rendered":"Yaskawa Motoman Swordfighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Yaskawa Motoman Swordfighter<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YASKAWA BUSHIDO PROJECT \/ industrial robot vs sword master\" width=\"648\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O3XyDLbaUmU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Industrial robotics is pretty under-recognized It\u2019s easy to think they\u2019re all about manufacturing. But just watch as Motoman-MH24 normally found assembling or packing products in a factory, takes on a new lease on its automation life and becomes a master sword fighter.<\/p>\n<p>Motoman-MH24 is a 630-pound high-speed industrial robot made by Japan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mroelectric.com\/yaskawa\/1\">Yaskawa<\/a> Electric Corporation. The Yaskawa Bushido Project is a short video clip showing Japanese master swordsman and five times Guinness World Record holder Isao Machii teach Motoman-MH24 the way of the sword. The company made this promotional clip to celebrate what they dub \u201cmanufacturing spirit\u201d as they near their 100th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>To date, Machii has demonstrated some pretty radical feats with his blade: slicing a flying shrimp pelleted at him at 80mph in half, and a neon ball flung at him at 150mph \u2013 and these are just some of the things the dude can do.<\/p>\n<p>The Yaskawa researchers examined Machii\u2019s sword techniques in 3D. Next, they got Motoman to reproduce the very same movements, and the results are superb. In a showdown between master and robot-apprentice, the pair first demonstrates a four-directional cut in flawless sync. Then Motoman-MH24 reproduces each of Machii\u2019s cuts down to a tee.<\/p>\n<p>Things start really heating up when the robot actually looks like it\u2019s gaining an upper hand over its human trainer. While Machii horizontally slices one orange, Motoman-MH24 takes down six in one fell swoop. The most epic scene is probably the one where Motoman splices a really thin pea pod in half.<\/p>\n<p>While Machii looks visibly tired towards the end of the final \u201c1000 cuts\u201d scene, his mechanical counterpart could probably go on for at least an extra 100000.<\/p>\n<p>Click to view our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mroelectric.com\/yaskawa\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yaskawa Drives and Controls<\/a>\u00a0currently for sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yaskawa Motoman Swordfighter Industrial robotics is pretty under-recognized It\u2019s easy to think they\u2019re all about manufacturing. But just watch as Motoman-MH24 normally found assembling or packing products in a factory, takes on a new lease on its automation life and becomes a master sword fighter. Motoman-MH24 is a 630-pound high-speed industrial robot made by Japan\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,497,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-robotics-applications","category-yaskawa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3.1 (Yoast SEO v25.3.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yaskawa Motoman Robot Swordfighter | MRO Electric and Supply<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Japanese master swordsman and five times Guinness 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