Robert Playter
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1,075 appearances
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first heard Apr 2023
last heard Apr 2023
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Well, as you can imagine, there's, you know, hundreds or thousands of amps and volts involved in this breaker switch.
And it's a dangerous event, because occasionally you'll get what's called an arc flash.
As you just do this disconnect, the power, the sparks jump across and people die doing this.
And so Ontario Power Generation used our spot and the arm through the interface to operate this disconnect in an interactive way.
And they showed it to us.
And we were so excited about it and said, you know, I bet we can automate that task.
And so we got some examples of that breaker switch.
And I believe in the next generation of the software, now we're gonna deliver back to Ontario Power Generation, they're gonna be able to just point the robot
at that breaker, they'll indicate that's the switch.
There's sort of two actions you have to do.
You have to flip up this little cover, press a button, then get a ratchet, stick it into a socket, and literally unscrew this giant breaker switch.
So there's a bunch of different tasks.
And we basically automated them so that the human says, okay, there's the switch, go do that part.
That right there is the socket where you're gonna put your tool and you're gonna open it up.
And so you can remotely sort of indicate this on the tablet and then the robot just does everything in between.
Yeah, it maintains its balance.
It walks itself into position so it's within reach and the arm is in a position where it can do the whole task.
So it manages the whole body.
We love working with customers who have challenging problems like this.
And this one in particular, because we felt like what they were doing, A, it was a safety feature.
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