VX Machina is the studio of David Amos, the Visual Machinist. Robot cell simulation and integration, film robotics, 3D and design, built on fifteen years of work on film sets and production lines.
Every cell here was simulated and programmed before any hardware was built.
Concept for a client: ten robots destacking barrels onto conveyors behind light curtains. Layout, modelling, programming, safety and cycle time. Watch it run
An ABB robot loading a CNC lathe from bar pallets inside a guarded cell, simulated in ABB RobotStudio.
A large ABB robot serving racks of fixtures, with SafeMove safety zones set up and checked in ABB RobotStudio.
A KUKA robot machining path programmed offline in Robotmaster, checked for reach and collisions before it reached the shop floor.
Four kinds of work, one habit: get the details right before anything is built.
Robot cells from concept to commissioning: simulation, offline programming, integration and safety.
Industrial robot arms on major film sets, and the 3D pipeline behind them.
Brand identities, websites and online stores, designed with an engineer's eye for detail.
Online communities built with care, on Discord since its early days.
Robotics, motion control and special effects. On Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, KUKA robot arms carried the performers through the waterfall sequence.
Full list on IMDb.
I started programming KUKA robots at fourteen, and I've worked with industrial robot arms ever since: on film sets from 2010, and on production lines installing complete robotic cells, from the first specification to the day the line runs.
Alongside the robots, I design brands and websites, build 3D pipelines and run online communities. VX Machina brings that work together under one name: automation and digital craft.
