3D-Printing & Future:
“The little factory” is my perspective about 3D printers. These machines open the door to a very advanced technology that helps manufacturing everything! Starting from simple models to very complicated ones. 3D printing works by creating very thin layers on top of each other in 2-D until the final 3d model completes. The printer was originally uses plastic as an ink since it is kind of easy to deal with. And the way it takes the orders from BIM or CAD software and transfer them to physical models. The printer might first seem to be useless (in industry) or just for simple models, but if we look at it in more advanced point of view, these simple layers can create lots of plastic and even metallic products. 3D-Printers can now manufacture hard metallic tools like crescent wrench. The printer have the ability to manufacture real moving car with all of its parts. Where it took only 44 hours to create Strati by Local Motors. Other big projects that were done like a complex of homes that were constructed by WinSun Decoration Design Engineering. The interesting thing about 3D-printing is that normal people are able to have the printer at home. This would allow people to have little manufactures at homes. The two major interests will be experiencing and mastering CAD software; and having the appropriate “ink” ore materials to be used. This point leads to that these ore materials are going to be the new “oil” of the next generation at some point.
This is a very short sight of 3D printing and how this technology is developing to achieve the desired goal, which making life easier.
Robotics & AI:
Robots can never be more intelligent than humans and when we are inspired of how they perform the tasks perfectly, we are unintentionally acknowledging how brilliant the human, who creates the robot, is. Robots are now used in a very large scale in manufactures and warehouses; and they have different duties and different ways to do them. For example, the use of robotics in Henry Ford’s car manufacture would certainly be different than Amazon’s warehouse. In Ford we are dealing with heavy objects, where in Amazon there are variety of sizes. I was really inspired by the robots that Amazon purchased this year and how they work intelligently. These Robots are cooperating with the employees to make the process much easier. Robots are coded to lift very heavy shelves filled with different items that customers purchased online in an order of the city of shipping, date of shipping and value of items.
It is very interesting to look forward to have these kind of robots at our homes sometime in the future.
Responses to other blogs:
Ami Amegan:
I liked your point that you mentioned in AI section that we really are just waiting the time that many jobs might be fulfilled by robots! On the other hand, I agree with you that if we let robots do lots of major and minor tasks, laziness will spread out.
Kevin Saldivar:
In 3D printing section, you mentioned that even though many things can be printed with the advanced technology, but in terms of construction, I agree with you that it is not safe to have printed structural members at the mean time. Also, I liked the point you mentioned in the last part that although technology is increasingly improving with high quality sensors and monitors, privacy appears to be affected and lots of information can be easily available.
Anthony Yau:
Thoughtful blog! In particular, you mentioned in robotics section that vehicle automation is under researches to have streets filled with self-driving cars. It is very interesting if that happens while taking care of safety and traffic issues like traffic lights and signs. But don’t you think that this would lead to some kind of weakness in driving skills for people who are commuting? Because emergency situations require human driver.
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