Businessweek: Behind a small cafe in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood stands an unmarked warehouse where the future of human-machine interaction is taking shape. Inside this sprawling maze of soundstages, machine shops, and computer labs, artists collaborate with engineers, cinematographers brainstorm with coders, and everyone has a collegial relationship with the small army of industrial robots stationed here. This is Bot & Dolly, a boutique design studio that specializes in combining massive mechanical arms with custom software for movies, architecture, digital fabrication, and entertainment installations. “We’re a culture of makers, of creators with open minds,” says Tobias Kinnebrew, Bot & Dolly’s director for product strategy. “We work on things that don’t seem possible and try to make them possible.”
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Hmmmmm . . . How long before the freshmen class is having a version of Bot and Dolly with a CMU logo spray painted on them building their basic design projects? I really like what they are trying to accomplish, the technology has existed for some time, but in applications like this, its not until the creative minds ask what can one do with this technology that hasnt been done before. Its not for technologies sake, its technology for the sake of something that couldnt have been done before.
I really deeply want to do this sort of thing when I'm older. The way the describe the warehouse is literally what I dream about at night. I think that robots are going to become a massive part of life for all of us as a result of this sort of work. I really enjoyed the way that this article took something technical and made it understandable to anyone without making it watered down. I didn't think that the video did as good a job at this but it still wan't that bad. I know that theatre might not be the best way to prepare to work with robots, but I think that theatre teaches many important lessons that apply to the work that the bot and dolly team do.
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