In this episode of The Roboticist Chronicles, host Dan Allford sits down with mechanical engineering student Jaxon Baker, a repeat guest on the podcast. Jaxon, a rising senior, discusses his involvement with the Formula SAE and Baja SAE programs, which Allford considers to be highly valuable extracurricular activities. The programs allow students to gain hands-on engineering and design experience by building race cars from raw materials. Jaxon shares details about the Baja team's successful s...
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In this episode of The Roboticist Chronicles, host Dan Allford sits down with mechanical engineering student Jaxon Baker, a repeat guest on the podcast. Jaxon, a rising senior, discusses his involvement with the Formula SAE and Baja SAE programs, which Allford considers to be highly valuable extracurricular activities. The programs allow students to gain hands-on engineering and design experience by building race cars from raw materials. Jaxon shares details about the Baja team's successful s...
The Dark Side of Machine Building: Rebuilding Robotic Systems
The Roboticist Chronicles
9 minutes
4 months ago
The Dark Side of Machine Building: Rebuilding Robotic Systems
Join Dan Allford and John Martin of ARC Specialties as they reveal "The Dark Side of Machine Building" – the often-unseen struggles of failed automation projects. They discuss the prevalence of expensive, non-functional robots that end up collecting dust, and the financial burden on customers who might pay multiple times for a system that still doesn't work. This episode dives into the challenges of rebuilding poorly configured robotic cells, including issues with incorrect robot setup, I/O, ...
The Roboticist Chronicles
In this episode of The Roboticist Chronicles, host Dan Allford sits down with mechanical engineering student Jaxon Baker, a repeat guest on the podcast. Jaxon, a rising senior, discusses his involvement with the Formula SAE and Baja SAE programs, which Allford considers to be highly valuable extracurricular activities. The programs allow students to gain hands-on engineering and design experience by building race cars from raw materials. Jaxon shares details about the Baja team's successful s...
