The Nightmare in Silicon Valley: 8 horror technologies that should scare you to death
Every night is fright night with what can happen once these scary technologies take hold in ways that you may not have imagined.
Make no mistake, the robots are keeping score. Here's the latest tally in the robots v. humans matchup.
Odico's flagship manufacturing system incorporates industrial robots that bend a heated blade while another manipulates a foam block. Together, the robots create foam casting molds for what are called double-curved geometries, such as domes (a cone, by comparison, is a single-curve geometry).
The molds can be used to make building materials that would otherwise have to be custom sourced from specialized design shops and shipped at huge expense. That frees human architects to pursue new designs.
TAKEAWAY: Robots can make previously unrealizable imaginative leaps of architects a reality.
WINNER: DRAW
SCORE: 2-1
Caption by: Greg Nichols
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