3D Printing and Modularization: A new opportunity for the robotics industry

Perhaps in the near future, the following scene will truly come out of the film and become reality: In the morning, when you wake up from your sleep, the robot in your home has done your breakfast, and when you have a nice cup of coffee and put on your clothes and go out, the self-driving car loads you into the company, and you spend the day All kinds of robots ... With such a nasty beginning, is not prepared to describe the importance of robots in people's lives, after all, for this point we have passed the Terminator series, Ai and just on the major video site can play the Transformers series of foreign science fiction movies to the future of life scenes by heart, today we certainly do not need to continue to advertise for the rich imagination of Hollywood directors, but to discuss a very serious question: such a beautiful scene , is it really possible?

For this question, I am afraid more people are pessimistic, the reason is that so far in our lives for the use of robots is still in a very limited range, most people contact the most robot-like device is the same as the disc of the automatic cleaning machine, in addition, It doesn't seem to see the further application of robotics in our lives ... But is it really so? If you have a chance to enter a more modern factory, you will find that in the manufacturing industry, robot applications will be more abundant than in life, because the use of robots to carry out high speed of operation, can effectively save labor costs, it can be said that in all aspects of industrial production, robots have become the main force to replace human labor. It is likely that someone will continue to ask: What would have happened? Why can't such a good technology get into life?

First, the need for repetitive and accurate operations in the manufacturing industry is exactly what robots are good at. In the equipment manufacturing process, the need in the shortest possible time to produce as many qualified products as possible, because workers in the labor time and labor accuracy of the short board, and a well-designed robot after a reasonable preparation of procedures, fully qualified for such a job.

Secondly, the manufacturing needs of a single process, the use of robots to achieve lower costs. In the manufacturing workshop, each production line is responsible for a separate process, so as long as the robot to carry out the process of programming can be greatly reduced programming and robot manufacturing difficulties, thereby reducing costs.

Finally, in the manufacturing scene of the robot due to the large demand for each batch, easy to achieve large-scale production, so in the robot manufacturing process can be used in the mode of manufacturing, thus reducing the price of the robot.

Through the above analysis, we can find that industrial production and the family scene for the robot needs are very different, compared to the single function in industrial production, we hope that the robot can do more things in the family, and for different family environment for the needs of the robot and there are more subtle differences, This requires robots to be customized, and this is almost impossible under the constraints of large-scale industrial production in the past, to create a robot that people can afford, after the mold must be through mass production in order to reduce costs as much as possible, which is undoubtedly contrary to the customization of manufacturing, Fortunately, today, 3D printing technology has matured, users can print out suitable for their own needs of the robot parts and even directly print out a robot, which will undoubtedly reduce the threshold of manufacturing robots, while the manufacturing industry from factory to family, Let more people have the opportunity to make the robot that suits their needs. It can be said that after the 3D printing technology came out, the robot industry at the same time the "leap-forward" development.

Compared to the already landed 3D printing technology, the module of the robot is still in the laboratory, but he has shown his great value: According to MIT Computer and Artificial Intelligence Center Director Dany? Ruth's introduction, has now been able to create a dice-like size of the intelligent module, In this module contains a set of intelligent structure, with CPU, motor memory and communication equipment, with these technical basis, more intelligent modules can be automatically assembled according to the design requirements of a larger module or even a complete robot! Does that sound like a scene in the movie "Transformers 4"? An intelligent module is like the "cell" that makes up a robot, so it seems that the Transformers gate in the movie can be repaired and it is only by reference to this technical theory to make the setting bar ... Although this "cell" is a little bit larger now, it is believed that in the near future, the cells will become smaller, eventually becoming the smallest organization in the robot structure, when the robot's use of the scene will be too big to imagine.

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