Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/06/12/swidl-robot-picks-up-gooey-sp.html
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“robot picks up gooey spills without losing their shapes”
As far as I can tell no jobs were lost.
Well, maybe one…
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I can’t begin to imagine a purpose for it other than forensic-grade vomit archiving
Now, you can really dust for vomit!
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I think I understood that one purpose would be for allowing elaborate designs to be laid out on a conveyor of some sort and then swiftly transferred to a different foodstuff or otherwise repackaged.
ETA: Also this video is eight years old and apparently the project is dead. (But I guess it still looks neat.)
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I’m going to switch to my superhero alter-ego “That Guy” and note that the product actually seems to be named “SWITL.” No “D” in there. My super-powered Eagle-Vision noted the posters in the background of the video and the title of the video itself. Other clues may yet reveal themselves to my repeated viewings.
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I’d like to know the name of the “meat” shown in the video, so I can more readily avoid it in the future.
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People in the field of „evidence planting“ will find one or two scenarios where this comes in handy…
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As featured on CSI: Kitchen Floor.
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Since it’s a Japanese company, my mind immediately went to the industrial squid-processing applications.
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I can’t begin to imagine a purpose for it other than forensic-grade vomit archiving
Obviously have never seen a Roomba (or another similar robot) smear a mess all over the floor instead of cleaning it.
A canonical example (NSW language and pretty disgusting):
If the robot was equipped with the feature from the article, this could have been avoided.
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“Clean up in aisle six.”
Stop & Shop now has these “Marty” robots roaming the aisles, but they don’t seem to do any cleaning, just send an automated message over the store speakers that someone should come quickly to clean up a mess. . . which is often just a dropped coupon or twist-tie.
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Well, they do show it as as packaging robot. Quite ingenious, but project died, so probably no real market for that.
And this is why, as long as we have cats, I will never get a home Roomba.
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Eureka! Cat puke cleaning will never be the same!
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This reads to me like ‘as long as cats exist I will not have a Roomba’.
Kind of like a challenge to the Roomba corporation.
(Hmmm. Evil villain in his lair strokes white cat, musingly.)
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I’ve seen this posted here before. It was just as fun to watch the last time. Product might have died because all my best efforts to search for the previous post were thwarted by spell check really not liking the product name Swidl or Switl.
That video was a lot more interesting than I expected it to be.
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kinda neat idea, with the fixed sheet and the moving plate. Now think of a good application! 
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This is great. If a hand-held, corded tool is a robot, I just picked up a sizable robot collection. My battery powered ones I will call cybernetic organisms from now on.
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