Hi my name is Bob Sherbert, I'm a...
...graduate of Drexel University's Electrical Engineering program and one of the co-founders of Carbide Labs.
Hi, my name is RJ Gross.
I'm a graduate of Drexel University. I go my Mechanical Engineering BS there.
And I'm also a co-founder of Carbide Labs
Bob and I have a long history we met each other...
...at the Drexel autonomous systems lab which is located in Drexel University.
So I've had a PCNC 1100...
...at our research lab...
...for about six years now we have...
a Series 2. I like tell people that our Series 2 is just the chassis...
...it's actually all series 3 guts. we've been using the machine to do various research.
We build humanoid related components.
And up then make those components walk.
Which is a very cool thing.
So my favorite experience with the Drexel Robotics Lab was probably the Robogames,
...robotics competition. We built from scratch a....
...miniature humanoid.
We did all the mechanical and electrical design. RJ cut the whole thing...
...on the PCNC.
I did a lot of the coding work.
We flew the thing out there. Did a foot race almost with a...
all the robots and did very well with that.
The robot there we called Atlas. It is a tiny miniature humanoid.
This is actually a leg component of...
...a full-sized humanoid. The Hubo robot.
The Hubo was designed and built originally in South Korea.
With permission with the Hubo Lab.
They allowed us to recreate the components...
...internally, within our research environment.
So all the components you can see here outside of maybe the gears and motors...
were all machined on a PCNC 1100. Or at least our machine.
This now, they've got a competition setup...
...similar for humanoids.
The robots are tasked to do a couple of different challenges.
Open up a valve, climb stairs, things like that.
That's kind of where it's at now.
It's progressing pretty rapidly.
Right now we're basically taking the platform building it from a set of plans.
But along the way we are doing some small tweaks and things like that...
to make it more ours so we can have it,
say, a better sensor head for doing manipulations tasks and vision.
So this product is still ongoing...
I've actually a unique role, after I graduated, Drexel hired me as a full time student.
So I'm lead on building a full humanoid robot...
...out of our machine shop.
So Carbide Labs is kind of a reconstitution of...
...a bunch of guys who went through the Drexel Autonomous Systems Lab.
What we want to do is provide....
...low-cost alternatives to some of the higher end machines...
...that we get to use in the industry...
...for home user, the hobbyist, light industry, academic...
...type users so that they can...
so that they can do these things in-house quick turn.
And pick up the the pace of electronics fab prototyping.
Now we're also doing a little bit of...
consulting work for...
....developing companies. We'll do process refinement
We'll do electrical or mechanical design consulting work...
...or things of that nature
to bootstrap some more of our product focused things which include....
our little TSR1 toolsetter here
We're focused on manufacturing community. We started developing this tool...
...as a partner to the hobby pro that Tormach offers.
We didn't want to go too far into...
...high end engineering. Lots of very...
...precisely machined components, things like that.
that would make it really expensive but concentrate on...
...the engineering topics, the tolerances, that things that really count that....
....really matter to make a tool setter a really good product. We focused on those
and after a few prototypes we came out with the TSR.
So we're also in the process of making a Tormach....
...training curriculum. This curriculum is available so that they could use...
....use it to you help them learn basic manufacturing...
....g-code, CAM, CAD.
Cool techniques to use the CNC machine...
...more effectively for whatever project they're trying to do, We've gone to a few locations
at people's homes, to help them with...
...various tooling issues, CAMing issues.
Just general maintenance, or even how to use the machine.
We can make housecalls.
What do you call a guy who has no body and no nose?
Inverted pendulum?
Nobody knows.
Come On!
Engineer!
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