You guys will be out of a job!!!

[skyhuck]

I believe it won't be long until a human controlled robot tree climber's achieved.

 

The controller in body harness hydraulically conforming to the robot's body positions in real time, seeing through the robot's eyes, safely ensconced in an on site or remote control module.

 

Probably faster and more efficient than ever once the danger of eminent death or dismemberment's removed from the equation!

 

Give it another 5 or ten years....

 

Jomoco

 

You fancy a wager on that???

 

I really don't believe it will happen in any of our lifetimes.

[tree-fancier123]

I believe it won't be long until a human controlled robot tree climber's achieved.

 

 

Give it another 5 or ten years....

 

 

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[Paul Cleaver]

its slow and cumbersome but im sure that will improve in time.

 

I can see the boom getting bashed on some jobs.

[jomoco]

It'll be one pricey controll harness!

 

Full body from head to toe!

 

Virtual reality goggles from the robot's perspective.

 

Capable of extending and retracting both arms n legs!

 

Multiple cutting tool head choices!

 

It'd be a bloody great new online game...

 

Jomoco

[Billhook]

Nah, the future is drones armed with laser cutters

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Terminators

[Spruce Pirate]

FC round here used to have a circular saw blade, a flail and a ditching bucket all on a rubber duck. The idea being that first pass was with the blade pruning/brashing trees, second pass with the flail taking out regen and mulching the arisings, then the bucket clearing ditches. The forester said you'd be quicker with a pole-pruner and a brush-cutter for the first two passes - and I think he was right. But the technology is improving all the time and quality of the cut isn't too bad, albeit there is a significant peg left, not trimmed to the branch collar. It's not there yet, but mechanical tree pruning may not be too far into the future.

 

H&S may be our saviour as it is difficult for an operator to stop a blade spinning at xxxxx rpm if a member of public happens to ignore a warning sign.

[jomoco]

Fascinating updates and history of powered exo-skeletons.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powered_exoskeleton

 

Particularly the section on pneumatically powered airbag muscle simulators and their incredible power.

 

The thing that's perhaps most appealing about a humanoid tree climbing robot?

 

Hanging from a powered umbilical hose assembly provides a virtually limitless power supply that could be cleanly supplied from either hydrogen or CNG compressors n generators on the crane truck's bed.

 

Imagine a six foot robotic climber weighing in at only 100 lbs due to titanium and air's lightness?

 

Jomoco

[Ghettoblaster]

Wow! Never expected this!

Was just having a giggle at crazy American tree manglers!

Interesting stuff about the robotics though!

[jomoco]

It was British lads wailing bout "it won't be long yeah" as I recall.

 

So the spherical control room with the full body harness inside, capable of spinning on three axis points, is in fact an at home module. Your robot's set up in the field by a goundie!

 

A human in harness correctly oriented to the robot's exact position from inside the module, is fully capable of compensating for any minor eccentricities of the control system's limitations.

 

There's a company called Boston Dynamics that has umbilically controlled and powered four legged robots that can haul butt on a treadmill.

 

 

Jomoco

Edited January 25, 2016 by jomoco