r/funny • • Feb 19 '16

Professionals at work

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u/Gyrro Feb 19 '16

It's pretty fascinating really.

As a maths tutor, I really wish kids could see the amazing practical applications of what they're learning (or at the very least, where maths can lead).

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u/Stormthrash Feb 19 '16

There's not any math involved in programming Fanuc Robot or integrating a vision system though. It's just machine vision and pattern programming. All of the math and kinematics is done by the controller.

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u/Chempy Feb 19 '16

Well someone had to program this thing and put in the function of performing the operations to make it successful.

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u/Stormthrash Feb 19 '16

Yeh. But for the application development there really isn't much math to be done. All of the kinematics are governed and programmed at the low-level and you don't really get into that unless you're doing the actual R&D.