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10/09/2022

Swarm Printing in Construction

A group of Engineers from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have designed robots that use swarm Printing to make from scratch, concrete blocks that would take just 8 minutes to print and one week to be be fully structurally hard. It would measure 1.9m by 0.4m by 0.13m

A prescribed computer would map out the whole design and then assign individual tasks to each robot. They would work simultaneously without overlapping or interfering with each other's trajectory and create the concrete boulder precisely to designed specification.

The robots can then go on to print more of those completing the project and moving on to a new project, with different specifications altogether.
The efficiency of the robots allow usability and interoperability within different spheres of the same.

On average, such robots would require as little as 8 weeks to build a standard ground level bungalow. You can imagine.
Next we show how the medical field is incorporating such technologies to perform diagnosis and even treat disease

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06/09/2022

Have You Heard of Swarm Printing?

The Name swarm comes from the quantitative nature of this process. Imagine a swarm of bees working in a hive to create honey. That is the concept of this technology. Of course we know what printing is. You must have already heard of 3D printing. Swarm Printing incorporates a a field of robots working simultaneously to create digital products.

The robots can either be small and diminutive or large. Each is assigned a specific task and they do them simultaneously to create the final product. Imagine a car manufacturing line. Basically different parts are made and assembled at different points of the production line and at the end of the line, the final visual of the car is achieved.

If swarm Printing was to be used however, everything would be in one static point and all the different parts would be assembled and made on site, and configured into the car using different robots. The robots would receive raw materials, make products and assemble them simultaneously to develop a car just in one static point.

Are there really Industries where such technologies are already operational?
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03/09/2022

Are we Really Ready for Industry 5.0?

Believe it or not, The next Industrial revolution is already here. While Industry 4.0 solely focused on robots and machines, Industry 5.0 involves incorporating the human touch back to the machine working processes. It merges the high speed and high accuracy machines to the cognitive and critical human mind.

It will create alot of versatility between human and machines. There will be a lot of personalization of processes where the end user specifies what product they need and the machine produces that specifi item for the particular customer and another kind for another customer. Industry 5.0 is designed to enhance customer satisfaction.

There are now technologies cropping up like Metaverse and the use of Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs). All these are building up to this next Industrial revolution

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03/09/2022

So What is Industrial 4.0?

From the late 90s into the new millennium, we see alot of interconnectivity being achieved by the already created computer systems. Systems and Protocols like Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (IOT) Gene Printing etc, starts to crop up due to the need for interconnectivity between machines.

More Processes and automated and become even more effective. The production field becomes more machine oriented that human oriented.
Robots can now perform hard and technical stuff like welding and production of cars and airplanes from initial stage to final testing. There is also alot of technological advancements in fields like medicine and genetics. Mass production increases and efficiency is even higher than before. This phase can be referred to as the robots world phase. They are truly everywhere.

But is there Industry 5.0?
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03/09/2022

What is Industrial 3.0?

From the 1970s, we saw an introduction of computers and automation technologies that made manufacturing easier. Entire production processes could now be automated without human assistance. We saw the creation of robots to do tasks that a human being could do, but more efficiently and redundantly.

This is where we get introduced to industrial logic conteollers like PLCs and visualisations like Human Machine Interface (HMI). Due to all this technological advancements, there was alot of economical growth but like we have seen before, this led to lots of people losing their Jobs and a new crop of jobs were created for technical people that could handle the interaction between computer aided machines and human beings.

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27/08/2022

What is Industrial 2.0?

From the 1760s to 1840s, people benefited alot from the production machines in industries. A major shift took place in the 1840. Electricity was introduced as a major key player in fuel sources. It was incorporated together with steam and Coal to form better machine operations that increased production rates and reduced the impact of coal to the environment.

In 1901, The first production line that used electricity was patented by Ransom E. Olds, the producer of OldsMobile Cars. His technology produced around 18 to 24 cars a day. Within a year, he had advanced the technology by a Whooping 500%.

Later on, Henry Ford advanced this technology and todate is called the Father of the assembly lines as well as that of Automobile mass production.
Due to all this advancements, economies advanced drastically with an increase in productivity but at the same time alot of people lost their Jobs due to the Automation of the lines

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27/08/2022

What is Industrial 1.0?

From around 1760, people started being creative in their manufacturing processes. There was a major shift from agrarian and handicraft economy (using agriculture and hand tools for production) to an economy dominated by machinery. There were advancements in manufacturing processes using majorly water and steam. The major beneficiary of this revolution was the textile industry, glass industry, mining and transportation industries.

Steam and Coal were the major sources of fuel and people started to learn about manufacturing as a means to produce mass products and goods. Machines allowed production to be faster and economies started benefiting from this

The invention of the steam engine, spinning wheel and water wheel was a major plus in the economic standards of the people. The demand of course now became higher than the supply. This led to workers doing long hour shift with very minimal pay. Children were also Incorporated and due to the standards of working, the Factory Act was established in 1833 to protect children from working for long hours and protect workers.

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20/08/2022

I bet you may have watched those 'Old Theme' movies that highlited how living in the last seemed like. Let's use the Movie 300 as a reference. It was set in 480 BC. We can see how the young boys were prepared to fight, swords were being made by a local weaponsmith. People grew food and women prepared clothes to wear at home.

We see advancements progressively decades later in the United States with the wealthy John D. Rockefeller building his oil company and making alot of industrial advancements.

We later see the advancements of work already pioneer by William Armstrong on the power generation in hydro electric plants which was quickly followed with the Internet era where people started using computers to advance technologies

Now we are talking about Internet of Things and virtual reality, talking about smart sensors and cities, talking about mass production of items in the industries.

All this is what we call Industrial Revolution
Currently we are at the 4th Phase but we will discuss that as we go ahead..

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19/08/2022

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