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[VIDEO] This Brooklyn 3D Printing Company Uses Robots to Assemble Print Jobs

2017-03-16T17:30:00-04:00

One Small Change Could Bring Manufacturing Back to the US
Welcome to the world's first robot-operated 3D printer factory. This is about as futuristic as it gets.
Posted by Futurism on Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Voodoo Manufacturing is a Brooklyn-based company which allows people to upload any design to their site and have it 3D printed using state-of-the-art 3D printing technologies. To help streamline this printing process, the company uses robot assistants to perform some of the more basic tasks, so humans can focus on other parts of the process. Check it all out in this video from Futurism.

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Check Out This Amazing Robot Selling DVD's, CD's and Games at Best Buy in Chelsea

2015-10-10T16:55:19-04:00

Inside of Chelsea's Best Buy store, there is a large robotic machine which will sell you DVD's, CD's, video games and other small items without any human interaction.

The machine is reminiscent of those Coke vending machines that locate the right item, put it in a cart, then bring it to your bin, although the Best Buy robot operates on a much grander scale.

I scanned through the music selections on the touch-screen kiosk, found the CD, clicked "buy now," swiped my credit card, and then watched as the robot -- basically a huge version of Armitron (yes, I am dating myself again) whizzed up and down a wall of shelves looking for the CD. It retrieved the disc, scrolled over to me, and promptly dropped the disc into a bin next to the kiosk. Done. No searching the shelves downstairs, no asking an employee who may know nothing about solo albums by fifty something Soundgarden singers, no waiting in line.

We've got self-driving cars, remote control drones and electronic cigarettes… I am not sure why I am still surprised by this.

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Welcome to the Age of Robotic Graffiti in NYC

2015-04-30T15:58:41-04:00

Late last night, street artist KATSU flew a specially modified Phantom Quadcopter 50 feet in the air over a giant Calvin Klein billboard on Houston and sprayed a few red lines on the top of Kendall Jenner's oversized face.

In April last year, KATSU made headlines when he demonstrated that he had figured out how to attach a spray can to an off-the-shelf DJI Phantom drone. At the time, he was only using the drone to paint canvasses for white-wall galleries. But he assured the world that soon he would take his mad invention out into the streets and create enormous tags in places that were previously inaccessible to even the most daring and acrobatic taggers. Now, he appears to have made good on his promise in grand fashion.

It's not the Mona Lisa and the red lines probably won't last long, but it's an important first step down the road of robotic graffiti.

Given this, it's not too hard to imagine drone armies painting massive murals in the not-to-distant future.

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