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Ted Hall, ShopBot CEO, recently posted an article on small manufacturing on Medium. He explains why the new robotics is less about replacing people and more about making successful use of production robotics to enable small producers to be more realistically competitive: Over the last several months, I have spoken to … Continue reading >>> Robotics Week: The New, Small Manufacturing is About Production Robotics In 2003, the director of technical education at the Clark County School System in Las Vegas, NV took a big step: CNC (computer numerically controlled) equipment was introduced into the woodworking programs at most of the middle schools and high schools in the district. It was a bold step, one taken to introduce technology (computers) … Continue reading >>> CNC and STEM (STEAM) Education: 1
Students Will Langford and Sam Calisch of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms used the Shopbot Desktop as their weapon of choice in their robotics class last semester. The course, taught by Sangbae Kim (of electric cheetah fame) and Matt Haberland, pushed students to extract principles of animal locomotion and use them … Continue reading >>> Bio-Inspired Robotic Locomotion at MIT, with the help of Shopbot Desktop. Over the holiday break, I happened to read a Scientific American [Jan., 2007, 58-65] article by Bill Gates in which he describes his views on emerging trends in consumer robotics. In the article, Gates makes the point that the field of consumer robotics is coming of age—particularly in having created around-the-house-helpers like Roomba—and that … Continue reading >>> A CNCer’s View of Robotics People wonder what it is exactly that I do for ShopBot, and it’s actually kind of hard to explain. Officially I work part-time doing “special projects”, but it really boils down to about 50% “real work” and 50% play (some would say 5% real work and 95% play!). One of the things I enjoy most … Continue reading >>> Hacking the ShopBot (3 Hacks) |
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