Bambu labs robot to remove prints and restart?

Bambu Lab X1 Series
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Is there a robot/cobot that can remove and restart prints? Why hasnt Bambu released this yet? Just need to open door and take out print?

Will it work with something like the wham bam plate that requires no glue/cleanup?

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You’d probably be more interested in one of those belt printers that run continuously, dumping prints off the end.

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The Bambu Lab PEI plate works like a charm for getting PLA prints on and off the bed without glue :ok_hand:

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I have never seen an enclosed belt printer. PC printing requires an enclosure.

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Which one textured or high temperature? Both say glue required for PC.

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You didn’t mention PC earlier. As you note, that has far more difficult requirements. I doubt you will ever see something automated for this - for higher volume manufacturing injection molding is more appropriate.

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I’m trying to see how hard will it be to add a cheap chinese robot to open door remove prints and put back plate and hit restart. Ultimaker and formlabs have this.

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Bambu Dual-Sided Textured PEI Plate

But I use it for PLA …

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I don’t know other systems, but as far as I’m aware they don’t remove only the print but replace the whole sheet or not (e.g. Prusa’s farm does it that way). Not only the print is in the way of a new print but you have also to consider removing the purge lines etc.

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Yeah I am thinking to buy few extra print plates to rotate back and forth. I just need robot to remove the print plate and put new one in.

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I made one using a UR5 & a prusa machine back in the day, I already contacted bambulab because I wanted to do the same for the x1c or p1p.
Unfortunately, it requires acces to the firmware and custom hardware. Which they would not share.
They said they had no interest in systems like that. Which is very sad because 1 UR10 could manage about 48 p1p’s.
Constant printing, automated printbed removal, printers controlled by a central application, all the bells & whistles, a literal CRAZY farm.

So much potential, all lost.

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you have to consider, bambu is a new company. so I think it takes time to implement such things.
how long you wait, since the first prusa was released, for a print farm feature, like this?

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I dont blame them for not sharing but Im hoping they will develop a work around soon. To me the door design looks most problematic for opening/closing by a robot.

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You not need access to firmware, just at end gcode send bed far down, the switch start process.

And I try do something, best effect was when is 2-3 plates stacked on bed (this working), and just take this one from top (I use hook from zip tyres)

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YOU are the robot. :grinning:

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I’m trying to setup a robot like this: