This Robot Tests ATMs For Frauds In The Software

It is highly likely that you have already witnessed the process robots testing products like parts of a car or furniture, in which they will perform various repetitive tasks to make sure that the product that is receiving the test will not go out of order when consumers use. However, according to ABB’s video, a kind of robots is specially designed with the aim of torture testing ATMs that have been fully assembled.

The robot mentioned in the short clip above is called YuMi. ABB Robotics manufactured this robot to create an alternative that will be more flexible than those purpose-built robots in factories which can perform only one specific task. The two fully-articulated arms are the factor that contributes to the high price of this robot; however, these arms allow the operator to program robots like YuMi to carry out every repetitive task.

There’s no need for YuMi to watch every producing steps to prevent the breaking of the design of an ATM during the using of a few hundred thousand people. Undoubtedly, the producers have tested every component carefully before assembling them into an ATM with full functionality. Instead, this robot is used to test the software, the power behind an ATM.

Various physical transactions are carried out by this robot, including checking touchscreen and a variety of other buttons, removing and inserting a debit card, and withdrawing or depositing money, to find out errors that only appear after very long periods of being used in daily life.

Thanks to robot, manufacturers find it much less difficult to figure out what actions are the reason the software goes out of order because they can use the exact timing from the movements of the robots to know the exact moment a crash took place.

If you still remember a situation in which an error (except for those related to inadequate funds) appeared when you’re using the ATM, you’ll know why it’s important to make such a test.