- So four years ago, I jumped into automation.
When I purchased my first Universal Robotics UR10,
I got to be honest with you.
It was a little bit more than I could handle,
a lot to integrate, there wasn't great support.
So I sold it and bought other type of equipment
that I needed more than a robot.
And I knew I would come back to it.
Today is the day, UR10E right here inside.
Let's open it up.
- [Announcer] Well, I have a wonderful
electronic invention I want you to see.
It looks something like this.
(intense music)
- All right.
I'm curious how the packaging
has changed also over the years.
Nice, boom.
Universal Robots right there.
Oh, man.
That is awesome.
Actually it looks identical, it looks absolutely identical.
The cord is a little bit different.
Oh, that connector's different.
That's new.
The base looks a little bit different.
So I saved all my mounting hardware.
I actually had two pedestals just for future robots.
And so I used one, it's on a slant.
I'll show you that in a minute,
but I hope this base is the same as the old style base.
And we can just put it right on the pedestal.
So I wonder if I can lift this thing up, let's see.
From what I remember, it was really heavy.
Yeah, I'm gonna wait on that.
I'm gonna wait on that.
That is a really heavy robot,
but I guess for now,
let's go see where we're going to put it.
So this is our VF-2c, C just means it's our third VF-2.
It has nothing to do with model or anything like that.
We use this for prototyping.
We have a vice set up there right now,
but this makes all of our pallets
for our pro and mini system.
So one thing I learned the first time I had a robot
is I had the pedestal front and center and, you know,
it would take our chucks in and out,
our bottom plates, things like that.
This time I know better.
I'm going to mount it off to the side,
not fully out of the line of the door, but off to the side.
So an operator can comfortably work
in here doing prototype work
or just doing second op work with different stuff.
So we went ahead, drilled it, concrete.
What we did was we threaded with bolts on the bottom
and the top of the flange.
That way we could level it out perfectly.
The first time I did that,
the bolts were too short back in my old shop.
And the thing was always tilted to one side
and it just didn't work out.
So we know better now.
Yeah, this was the original pedestal we used.
Has these locating pins and then the M8 screws there.
It should hopefully be bolt and go.
So I'm liking this.
Some things that jump out is when it reaches in here
and it comes back, we're going to have to be conscious
that the back end of the arm
doesn't swing around and hit this.
So when we program it, we'll want the first joint
to be upright so that it simply pivots.
My thoughts right now without seeing anything
is that we'll probably do a cart here and a cart here
because we still want to work in that cell type of approach.
So someone could stand at the control right here,
see everything working here, pallets, things like that.
We can also roll carts away from the robot.
We'll see, it's kind of trial and error,
but we're much better prepared for this time around.
Okay, I wanted to get one last check of the level
and make sure this is completely level
before we muscle this thing into place.
So the pattern I got a scale and the pattern is,
yeah, it's identical.
Even the placement of these alignment pins,
it should be pretty much plug and play.
I even have the old screws
from the last time we had this in place.
So I'm going to put it into place,
drop a bolt and start mounting this guy down.
(soft music)
Nice.
(soft music)
Well, so far so good.
I mean, this thing is going in.
Yeah, if you're by yourself,
you can definitely install this on your own.
Let's see, the fit isn't perfect.
Not sure why.
Yeah, this one's going in.
Maybe there's some junk in the threads
from sitting around for a few years.
Yeah. Nice.
I can't quite get to this back one.
I'll get to it after we get this all fired up.
So for now that's awesome.
That is incredible.
We're more than halfway there.
(soft music)
Oh nice, cool, manual.
Oh, I remember it came with a special pen.
That was a pen and touch screen stylus.
I'm curious if one will be included
with this model as well.
I'm not sure what all this stuff is.
Looks important.
(soft music)
Oh Nice.
(soft music)
Wow. Look at that.
That's awesome.
The form factor is about the same.
This box is about the same size.
The pendant is definitely smaller.
Oh, and this cable is thinner
before it was like a garden hose.
It was one of my complaints, but overall it looks the same.
It looks great.
Let's hook this guy up.
(soft music)
Cool.
Goes right there.
That's a little tight.
Got this button on top right here.
So the way that works is you hold it here,
you push this button and then move the arm.
And that way that's how you position it.
Let go and it locks into place.
Awesome feature of these UR robots.
So, cool. Let's keep moving.
You know, I kind of feel
like I should stop and read the manual,
but I'm going to say that I've done this before,
so I'm just going to go for it
and plug it in and kind of see what happens.
All right.
Cool.
This obviously goes right here.
Here we go.
Okay.
Cool.
All right, so.
Peel off this official screen protector.
(soft music)
Cool. All right.
So I don't see any switches on,
I'm pretty sure this is going to be it.
Here we go, first time firing it up.
Alright, fans.
(soft music)
Cool.
We've got a status bar.
I like that, that's new.
I can already tell you
that the screen is so much better than before.
The old screen had a very low resolution.
You could actually see the dots.
This is like iPad quality,
or at least iPad 2 quality.
I can see some pixels, but still it is night and day
from the previous version.
Installation, I think that's what we should do.
Actually, I know we should do that, so.
Tool center point, we won't do any of that.
Actually, you know what?
This is new.
Maybe I should slow down and read the manual.
When I went to the move tab,
it said, "Robot needs to be powered on to proceed,
press the initialize button to turn it on."
So I'm going to press that
and power on the robot first.
Press on.
There it goes,
starting, booting.
This is all very new, "Robot active.
Warning, stand clear of the robot when starting it."
That sounds a little scary.
Hmm.
Okay.
Stand clear, I'm going to press start.
Here it goes.
Yeah, that's familiar to me.
I remember all these clicking.
So it has all these like little,
almost like servos that lock the servos in place.
Sorry, it has like these pins that you can hear unlocking.
And then I think if I just,
I'm going to hit exit.
Yeah. Let me try moving it.
For the first time I'm going to press the button
and I'm going to attempt to move an axis.
Nice.
(soft music)
Solid. This thing is rock solid.
I can hear a little bit of sound from it.
The servo's trying to keep its position.
But other than that these machines,
these robots are just dead quiet.
So day one, we got it unboxed,
We got it mounted, powered on.
I'm able to move it.
This is awesome, but we still have
a lot of work ahead of us.
We have to create the tooling to interface with our pallets.
We've got to create a pallet that's pneumatically operated.
So it can send signals from the box to clamp down
when the robot puts the pallet down,
we have a lot of work ahead of us.
I'm going to go home with the manual, read it overnight,
come back, see if I can get some basic programming done.
So catch us in the next episode
where we actually put some of this together.
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Well guess what, today is the day.
UR10 inside, (stuttering) let's open it up,
- [Camera Man] No way man.
- Yeah.
That gave me a lot of good ideas, so, okay.
- [Camera Man] Mm-hmm.
- So four years ago.