This 3d printer just one day escaped the lab and began printing a dam for no reason. It's out of control!
thats pretty impressive :some-controversy:
but of course china is capitalist, despite pursuing automation which is necessary for socialist transformation
They are comunist, just ike we are. Untill the work is done we all have to enguage with the capitalist system. China also happens to be abelnto use capitalist forces to destory the systen of capitlaism which makes the eventual work of revolution much easier and is rad.
"China continues down a capitalist path as it uses global trade dominance to buy up the entire rope supply."
From the description in the article it doesn't sound like 3D printing in the conventional sense of extruding a filament through a heated element but rather the use of automated construction vehicles with conventional building materials.
More like building a dam using CNC rather than 3D printing, but the analogy of 3D printing is probably reasonably good in communicating the concept.
imo all concrete construction is 3d printing. You extrude a (wet) filament, it hardens into a shape. That's printing, baby
Most 3D printers run of modified CNC code to my knowledge. It's close enough that it's fine to use like this.
The gimmick is that unless china really stepped it up you still need a pretty big crew to mind everything
The gimmick is that unless china really stepped it up you still need a pretty big crew to mind everything
That's inevitably how these things are right? A new technique is almost always more resource intensive until it can be improved through repetition and scale to be cheaper and more efficient.
Certainly seems like an okay way of dealing with a potentially declining population in the coming decades through automation.
there are already forms of 3D printing that work with cement and the like and are used to build houses, roads etc., although this seems to be happening on a much larger scale and with a higher degree of automation.
I read through the paper and the big benefits that they're looking to implement are removal of workplace injuries related to heavy equipment use, like jolting and vibration of the body which can effect your bones
https://pastebin.com/nEN3PiAy
Here's what I got translated. If someone wants to format it better, feel free. You can find the pdf download of the document (free) from China at the bottom of the paste. Has all the figures in it. And also has pictures of autonomous vehicles in action.
The PDF itself has pictures of actual onsite autonomous vehicle usage for the dam. The paper also implies the Baihetan hydropower plant (2nd largest in China/world, built in 4 years) was built so quickly because it was partially automated in this manner. Spells good news for many major cement-based construction projects, potentially certain nuclear projects as well.
Fun quote from the paper: " The intelligent construction robots, such as the grinding robots, paving robots, driverless robots, such as the construction intelligent robots with deep perception, effective decision making, and robots, such as rolling robots, paving robots, driverless trucks and excavation robots, have the ability of depth perception, effective decision-making and precise control. In practice, the AI has reached or even surpassed the level of manual operation."
It's there for SEO. After years of COVID search terms being used to train the algorithms that generate search results, it's no surprised "scientists say" ended up in there, but their shit isn't smart enough to tell when it's being used inappropriately.
I'm going to start just adding "scientists say" to the end of things when I either want to try to sound convincing or deflect responsibility.
This sounds like a tabloid headline. Impressive if true, but it's so hard to tell.
but what about all those workers that they're putting out of work?! whose gonna hire them now?! commu-what?!
