On Thu, 2017-06-15 at 09:36 -0700, Chris Albertson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 2:07 AM, andy pugh <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 15 June 2017 at 08:08, theman whosoldtheworld <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> there are some possibility that the max joint/axis number become more than > >> 0-8 in future? > >> > > > > It might well increase in the release, but I am not sure how many machines > > need coordinated movement in more than 9 joints. > > If MK is ever to be useful with robots it could use the ability to > control a few dozen joints. > > It depends on one's approach to a multi arm/leg robot. You can > treat it as two 6 DOF arms or > as one 12 DOF assembly. Might be easier to assume 12DOF if the > motions are to be synchronized > in the same coordinate system. > > Also to be useful the g-code interpret would have to be 100% separated > from motion > planning so it could use some other command stream. Yes g-code is OK for > pre-programmed movement but robots can decide on their own what to do, > > But for milling machines, hard to see why more than 6 would be needed > > Yes there are reasonable affordable robots with 20 joints. >
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