yes actually i am trying to make a cheap robot arm to remove them or come up with a method using more cylinders to push teh cases in/out, im not sure what is better to develop yet.but basically i was inspired by this animated gif of a 3d printer facility, although with smaller arms mounted on each cnc, not one big arm servicing an array of amchines, mostly becaue the machines are too big and the rm would have to be huge. but this is the idea more or less.
https://gifs.com/gif/pgm6q2although even having arrays of auto vise will speed things up a lot. just ordered parts to make 6 more vise so i will try to post a video when it is actually used for production.
the thing with the robotic arms is it seems hard to get anythig that can lift a few hundred grams even for less than 1k+. Since i need a lot of them this is not a great option and actually huge surpluss robot arms that can lift 200 kG are available used for only 5-8k so spending that much on a bunch of toys when you could get something that could build cars seems a bit ridiculous.
if you lookup the original "dobot" kickstarter which they said would be open source, i will try to copy that style arm but make the parts in house. in the end it doesn;t look like they made the dobot project open source even though it got funded (lol) but the original model does not look that mechanically complex.
edit: also if you are looking for a pretty bad ass diy robot arm for fun or whatever this is probably the most impressive thing i found, the guy is still dev'ing it but the videos are coming out with progress every month or so. his goal was to make it all with cheap 3d printer + parts form amazon. pretty nice results id say. for me i only need 4 axis maybe not 6 so i will make a simpler arm to save money on motors. but this guy has probably made the most impressive open source arm i have seen yet.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI1or6 ... EEgM0lVCJw