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You will not be a fan of recipe blogs anywhere on the internet.
Recipe for french toast: Step 1: Learn the history of France Step 2: learn the history of toast Step 3: heat bread, eggs, milk in a pan
One time I inadvertently hit print on a recipe like this and the print dialog estimated 45 pages.
I really dislike this writing structure of "before I get to the point, let me tell you a story about my life" Edit: I'm not alone, https://style.mla.org/dont-bury-the-lede/
You will not be a fan of recipe blogs anywhere on the internet.
Nice. Here's much the same job, being done almost 50 years ago, by a robot at the Stanford AI lab.[1] This robot has both vision and force feedback, and uses them to assemble an automotive water pump. It does the coarse alignment visually, and the fine alignment by feel. [1] https://archive.org/details/sailfilm_pump
I'm still waiting for a robot that can assemble a LEGO model from a pile of Legos.
This looks like something designed to attract ignorant investors/talent who think small time manufacturing looks like a Ford plant but with less robots and more humans. In reality it looks something closer to Grandma's kitchen on Thanksgiving. How are you gonna stick a robot in there and have Uncle Fred program it?
I can't see this as anything other than a flashy high school engineering project. Much wow! little application.
Source: Work in domestic manufacturing. <$50 million company. Mostly do government/military electronics building.
[1]: https://x.company
I’m in manufacturing. Machinery is highly specialised. Making a generic robot without taking up huge amount of floor space and/or huge leaps in programming is like… Kubernetes being good for hosting your moms book club blog.
Billion dollar question: do you get more bang for the buck (return on investment, ROI) out of improving robot control schemes, or out of designing the product with automated assembly in mind? Bonus: the ROI changes as you invest in either bucket.
That's a very interesting question. Apple was once into design for assembly. The Macintosh IIci was Apple's peak at design for assembly. It was designed for vertical assembly. Everything clicks into place with a straight-down insertion move. No wiring harnesses. The power supply plugs into the motherboard. An automated plant in Fremont CA did the assembly. Then Apple gave up on design for assembly and went to offshor…
I sometimes get it. Then when I hear robots were used, I wonder if it's really necassary to always go to the cheapest labor route.
For years, I held it against Apple for moving manufacturing, but gave up when everyone followed.