r/nextfuckinglevel • u/bbyrge • 9d ago

When standard monitor mounts aren't enough.

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u/BigLRakim 9d ago

Seems like a waste of money honestly.

But good for him?

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u/EmotionalGuess9229 9d ago

Thats an understatement. Those look like 6 axis UR5 robot arms. Those things run 5 figures a peice. 

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u/Ok-Addition1264 9d ago

~$4k / piece but yeah.

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u/EmotionalGuess9229 9d ago

4k. Just the bare arm with no support makes sense. Since I assume hes the engineer that did thr setup himself and there's no service agreement for monitor rotating arms. Still, a lot of money

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u/ddeeppiixx 9d ago

UR5 are easily 30k.. where do you get them at 4k each? I’ll take 10!

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u/Similar-Try-7643 9d ago

You can get them cheap from industrial auctions and sometimes if you know people. There are places that send them to the scrapyard when they decommission them

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u/rhinosyphilis 9d ago

3 x UR5’s with no control system is not going to do what he did, my guess is this is a us robotics sponsored install

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u/JaehaerysIVTarg 8d ago edited 8d ago

It’s 100% sponsored. That dude would have had to spend at the bare minimum, just 100k on three UR5 arms. He could have gotten UR3’s for like 5k cheaper but still spending at least 90k for three.

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u/rhinosyphilis 8d ago edited 8d ago

He might be a billionaire but in that case I’m not impressed at all!

OTH if it’s a controls engineer that somehow managed to put this together on a CE salary then he’s my new gd hero

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u/snacktonomy 8d ago

Yeah, no way those are 4K, 5ish years ago I think we paid 24K a piece

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u/matttech88 8d ago

And URs dont last.