techSaturday, February 25, 2006
This is the future. It'll allow for more intricate and complicated mechanical design (for cars, aircraft, everything) because engineers will not need to allow for human access for repair and maintenance. The microbots will be able to get into smaller areas and such. Anyone who's ever worked on an engine knows how hard it is to access all the bolts and stuff. It'll also allow designs that just aren't possible or practical to build otherwise. Microbot welders could get into the engine and weld things together instead of bolting. A huge team of microbots could assemble very intricate machines that would otherwise be impossible to build.
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"[E]ngineers will not need to allow for human access for repair and maintenance...Anyone who's ever worked on an engine knows how hard it is to access all the bolts and stuff."
Clearly they don't already.
Clearly they don't already.
Well, they do - just not very well. You probably need about $10,000 worth of specialty tools to properly work on an engine - that just includes the hand tools, not things like hydraulic lifts or power/pneumatic tools.
But they actually do include assembly simulation in the design process in order to make sure that the design can physically be assembled.
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But they actually do include assembly simulation in the design process in order to make sure that the design can physically be assembled.
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