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Motion Waste: Why Most Industrial Robots Still Burn Energy on Bad Paths
Week 38 counted the fleet-wide load and opened a humanoid’s battery. Week 39 goes deeper, into the trajectory, where the same robot can burn 20%+ extra energy for the identical job depending only on where it’s placed and how it’s programmed.
A six-axis arm spends most of its electricity moving mass through poorly chosen joint space: overshoot, sharp acceleration, detours, high-torque postures. ABB found 70%+ of its robots’ operational carbon footprint is electricity used in operation, and the path is where operation lives. The evidence is consistent: a measured ~23% difference on a real ABB…
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