Interesting read on a company called Sorting Robotics, anyone use their equipment or something similar?
The LeRobot project would make for a great low-cost POC.
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looks like a trap for dumb investors, they focus almost entirely on the growth potential in that article and never even talk tech. An articulated robotic arm, loaded by hand, that applies distillate and kief/thca to prerolls. For 250 fucking thousand bucks
the other video is a joint injector with some kinda rotary table setup and way lower capacity than the existing ones I know of
I’m curious what the fluid path components are like, idk how I feel about pressurizing media bottles as a reservoir. Maybe it’s a vacuum setup to draw oil in?
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The robo arm seems like way too expensive of a way to move stuff, why not use a dual-layer conveyor that spins the joints as they roll past sprayers? Even better if it was integrated into something like a Blackbird and the operator just needs to fill a flower reservoir, distillate/adhesive reservoir, and kief/isolate reservoir to do the whole process hands free. Add in a module to drop it in a tube, cap it and apply a label and you’ve got a winning recipe. I will say that it is cool to watch it move around and do the cotton candy style coating, but it seems a little overengineered.
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I spoke with Nohtal at length a couple years ago. He is a remarkably intelligent engineer and very detailed oriented. I have not used his machines, but they look well designed and no jank. Irc, he also put cameras in his machines to allow for remote service.
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I took a close look at the Jiko, the machine you are talking about. The system is for THC-A based concentrates. Nohtal recommends partial decarb(10-20%) to improve the flowability of the concentrate. The media reservoir bottle sits inside a convection hot-air blower, which keeps the bottle a consistent temperature without hot-spots of resistance based conduction heaters.
Also keep in mind the Jiko is already a few years old. There has been a lot of new automation in the last few years in our space…