SQUISHY ROBOTS
Robotic science all over the world is advancing with astounding speed. Efforts have been directed towards emulating biological systems, called bio-inspired robotics, to the best possible extent. Now, try to picture the most advanced robot that you’ve seen or read about. It must be brilliantly programmed to make complex movement, execute difficult algorithms etc. but they are all of a fixed shape; they are rigid, hard and non-deformable. In the future, we expect robots to do many tasks for our sake i.e. automation is sought after. But the current progress of robotics is not enough to achieve it. As mentioned earlier, rigidity and inflexibility is a major drawback. Till now it was so as alloys used as components were inflexible, and flexible materials could not be used in robotics. But now we have a new material that is both, rigid and flexible!
A professor in the Mechanical Engineering department of MIT, Anette Hosoi along with her associates have developed a new material for achieving highly deformable, flexible, rigid, hard, soft structures—according to our need. With the application of heat to this material, it “softens” and is easily moldable to a different shape, even with a little application of pressure. When allowed to cool back down, it regains its original shape and becomes “hard” again.
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Foam is used because when squeezed, it can be reduced to a small fraction of the space of its normal size and bounces back to it on removal of pressure. Wax, when heated to a particular, moderate low temperature, changes the hard substance to a soft-pliable one. Foam is dipped into heated wax and it is allowed to get absorbed fully before being removed. On cooling, it solidifies into a mesh like cubical lattice with multiple “nodes and edges”. These unit structures can be treated as individual units while applying deformations, hence increasing the level of achievable
The chapter "Too Heavy to Lift", from the Thomas King novel The Inconvenient Indian, differentiate three categories of "Indians", namely Dead Indians, Live Indians and Legal Indians. These categories are social constructs from the Western settler world. I thought the Living Indian analysis was interesting, as it talks about Indigenous people never being Indigenous enough in the settler's eyes. The Legal Indian category raises the important question of the status. In his text, King implies that "only about 40% of Live Indians in North America are Legal Indians".
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Throughout this unit we have read about people who challenged expectations, challenging expectations are worth the struggles and sacrifices they faced because it made them stronger and they learned how they related to others that faced similar issues. First of all, in both “La Vida Robot” by Joshua Davis and “The Freedom Writers Diary” by The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell articles, students learned how to relates to others that faced similar issues they went through which made them stronger as human beings. In article “La Vida Robot” Davis states “Now the four underprivileged high school students from phoenix Carl Hayden community High School have a better chance of paying for college –and their story may soon be a big-budget movie.” This shows that throughout everything the students have been through, at the end they were rewarded with something life changing. Also in article “The Freedom Writers Diary” the authors The Freedom Writers with Gruwell state “I guess I’ll have to wait for the war to end like Anne and Zlata did except I won’t be taken advantage of I’m going to be strong.”
Their unique shopping experience stems from their smaller store locations with the chevron pattern. They don’t have a large array of products, but they provide high quality goods under their brand name that continues to attract customers.
Due to automation and robotics, around five million jobs exist with 300,000 people estimated to already be employed in industrial robotics.
Toms shoes are made from environment-friendly materials like natural and organic vegan substance, including the packaging that is made from 80% recycled waste. Going further on the path of social corporate responsibility, the company can broaden the range of their products and services and explore additional sustainable materials to create their products. Internal Environmental Factors: Strengths 1. Mega Brands Inc. sells a wide range of products like puzzles, building blocks, construction sets, and activity craft-based games. Due to the variation in type of the products they sell, consumers have more options to choose from.
Isaac Asimov’s Reason, shows us how the field of robotics is still a working-progress, Philip K. Dick’s Second Variety introduces the idea of superior, conscious machines who were created by advanced technology, and Kenneth Chang’s “Can Robots Become Conscious?” shares different views on the advancement of machines and robots. I believe machines and robots are not glorified adding-up machines and I think it is possible that they will become capable of original thought the more we advance in the field of robotics. Similar to the iPhone updates, new technology and new studies could lead to intelligent, conscious machines. Technology has come a long way, with the introduction of the Siri of the iPhone, Window 10 2-in-1 computers, flying military drones, and many more.
Unlike a robot, Baymax can think and make decisions on his own. A team of medical researchers led by a biochemist named Peter Kim who works for the Children’s National Health System have developed a new robot called STAR (Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot). STAR can configure algorithms to decide where and how to place a suture in soft tissue specimens. This means STAR has the ability to calculate the algorithm to decide its next move. Although it is not the fasted method for placing sutures, STAR has produced more precise results than a human surgeon, laparoscopic or robot assistant surgery (Herkewitz, 2016).
In the startup phase of Lululemon Athletica they had a high bargaining power. This was due to a desire to work with leading fabric suppliers and increased investments. A majority of their apparel production was in Asia however they are willing to use Canada as well as the United States for production facilities as they are required. There are many suppliers competing for retailer’s business. Common materials used in apparel making such as rubber and cotton are readily available.
This was the medium constant development of high quality apparel, with attributes of customers’ feedback, to refine the clothing standard. 4.1.2 Product
Many jobs have become easier by being replaced by robots. Robot are not just the idea of talking mechanical parts as we see in futuristic movies. There are a variety of different types of robotic machines, great majority of them appear in factories and in science technology work fields. Robots in factories help replace a dangerous parts of a job. However, there have been different perspective with robots replacing jobs.
About, bone tissue engineering Biological properties and mechanical properties is very important. On the other hand, for mimicking natural bone, as possible, composition and structure are similar.
Neuromorphic technology is that Computer chips are used which mimic the human brain. Even today's best super-computers cannot rival sophistication of human brain. Computers are the linear, moving data back and forth between the memory chips and a central processor over a high-speed backbone.
While ensuring this, they implement some important decisions: -Consumer feedback is extremely important to them for product development. Their customer care receives many feedbacks on a daily basis and they make sure that they taken into consideration all the needs, big or small, of their consumers. For instance, the HEATTECH material got several feedbacks for the fabric to be softer, warmer and to introduce a wider range of colors. -Moreover, the fact that they procure all their raw materials from all over the world and their suppliers provide them with all raw materials made to order for their specifications ensures that they use the best quality