Tuesday 19 February 2013

Fractal Robot



This machine requires tooling and software to perform useful work. With more advanced versions of such machines, it will be possible to build a bridge in a day, a housing estate in a week, a space ship in hours,... and so on. This is called Digital Matter Control and it is implemented here with machines called Fractal Robots. Fractal robot is a new kind of robot made from motorized cubic bricks that move under computer control. These cubic motorized bricks can be programmed to move and shuffle themselves to change shape to make objects likes a house potentially in a few seconds because of their motorized internal mechanisms. It is very much like kids playing with Lego bricks making a toy house by snapping together plastic bricks - except a computer performs the shuffling operation.

 This machine can have additional electro mechanical tools fitted that almost anything can be carried on top of T-shaped carrier girders including glass panels, rolled sheet material, tooling carousel, work parts and pipes. Work parts are shipped to the assembly point and then robot arms or custom tools built into fractal robots perform the final assembly operation. Sheets of rolled up sheets of materials can be wrapped around hangar sized structures to make walls technology and roof.  Pipes networks can be laid by the cubes. The T-section can be tooled to carry pipes which are then shuffled into the assembly point where further robots attach the pipe to a connector or to more pipes with 100% automation. Joints for pipes and welding, tools are carried inside cubes as fractal tools.

Such machines will be able to lay down pipes or dismantle them in complex nuclear reactor facilities where access is impossibly difficult. The fractally smaller machines reach into nooks and crannies with smaller cubes, tools and work pieces. Using such fractal machines and tooling, 100% assembly and / or repair systems is possible for complex pipe system. Uses iclude the oil industry, chemical industry, nuclear, and construction.

After pipes, the next and most difficult operation is the laying of cables, wires and hoses. Fractal robots with a pair of fingers for each size of cube can pick up and articulate wires through complex contours and connect them up with specialised terminating tools with 100% automation. Smaller fractal robots and fractal fingers handle smaller cables until all cabling operations is complete.




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