hackaday.com: [Chris Rybitski] developed this low-profile robot to help move scenery on stage. The test footage shows it to be spry and able to move hundreds of pounds of cargo. The demo shows the addition of a wooden platform about twice the length of the metal chassis with casters at each end to support the extra weight. It seems to have no problem moving around with the weight of a couple of human passengers on board.
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Wow, that is certainly an amazing and worrying sight. On one hand this machine opens up a whole new world of possibilities to the theatrical world because this little robot can make the backstage crew and moving of scenery much easier. However it means bad things for me, a theatre technician, as the little guy may end up replacing me in the future. For better or for worse, this marvelous invention is just now starting to take its rightful place in the lifesaving inventions to us theatrical folk.
One of the problems with electric moving scenery is that the pieces often have to be on tracks to make sure that they go to the right places. This new, very accurate, robot could open a lot of possibilities for automated sets. Because of how smoothly and accurately the machine rolls set pieces could be moved in and out and almost choreographed into a dance. Thus we would be adding another position into the theater technician staff: Scenery Movement Designer.
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