FESTO bionic ants

[Kev]

 

[charley1968]

Neat! Are they toys or what could one use them for?

 

[Holmz]

From Koolaid to pheromones...

 

[tjbnwi]

Neat! Are they toys or what could one use them for?

Demonstrates the companies ability to manufacture control systems. My first exocrine with Festool/Festo was repairing machine with their control systems.

Tom

 

[Michael Kellough]

Neat! Are they toys or what could one use them for?

Demonstrates the companies ability to manufacture control systems. My first exocrine with Festool/Festo was repairing machine with their control systems.

Tom

You are an unusual guy!

I've never evn heard of that word let alone used it in a sentence. [wink]

 

[Holmz]

Neat! Are they toys or what could one use them for?

Demonstrates the companies ability to manufacture control systems. My first exocrine with Festool/Festo was repairing machine with their control systems.

Tom

You are an unusual guy!

I've never evn heard of that word let alone used it in a sentence. [wink]

Or perhaps he has a keen sense of humour.  [cool]

 

[tjbnwi]

Neat! Are they toys or what could one use them for?

Demonstrates the companies ability to manufacture control systems. My first exocrine with Festool/Festo was repairing machine with their control systems.

Tom

You are an unusual guy!

I've never evn heard of that word let alone used it in a sentence. [wink]

Or perhaps he has a keen sense of humour.  [cool]

or I need to proof read before I post.

Experience....(the other word did make it more interesting)

Tom

 

[AlexThePalex]

ROFL, I was wondering about that word too, seemed a bit out of place in the sentence.

As Tom said it's probably about control systems, but in the bigger picture, companies like Festo are exploring robot tecnology and AI, and their approach puts a heavy emphasis on modelling nature. While it's all still very experimental in this stage, at some point their robots will become mature enough to be of great use to mankind.

 

[charley1968]

Aye. I can see them big-a.. ants doin' a helluva lot good , like scarin' det livin'stuff outta da missus..one Festool i gonna give a pass..da missus even bein' ticked-off 'bout 'normal' machinery.

 

[HarveyWildes]

ShaperMaker ten years down the road - hundreds of autonomous ants that crawl over a piece of wood and shape it in 3-D.  Arbitrary size in all three dimensions.  You'd just need three reference points to orient by.

 

[Michael Kellough]

ShaperMaker ten years down the road - hundreds of autonomous ants that crawl over a piece of wood and shape it in 3-D.  Arbitrary size in all three dimensions.  You'd just need three reference points to orient by.

And hopefully the reference points would be established via radio transmitters instead of needing to put special tape all over the piece.

 

[Svar]

ShaperMaker ten years down the road - hundreds of autonomous ants that crawl over a piece of wood and shape it in 3-D.  Arbitrary size in all three dimensions.  You'd just need three reference points to orient by.

By that time they will not be taking orders from inferior humans. It will be us doing things for our robot masters if they decide to keep us around.

 

[Holmz]

Neat! Are they toys or what could one use them for?

Demonstrates the companies ability to manufacture control systems. My first exocrine with Festool/Festo was repairing machine with their control systems.

Tom

You are an unusual guy!

I've never evn heard of that word let alone used it in a sentence. [wink]

Or perhaps he has a keen sense of humour.  [cool]

or I need to proof read before I post.

Experience....(the other word did make it more interesting)

Tom

It seemed tortured wording to roll in exocrine as a reference to pheromones, but I was hopeful.

 

[tjbnwi]

Neat! Are they toys or what could one use them for?

Demonstrates the companies ability to manufacture control systems. My first exocrine with Festool/Festo was repairing machine with their control systems.

Tom

You are an unusual guy!

I've never evn heard of that word let alone used it in a sentence. [wink]

Or perhaps he has a keen sense of humour.  [cool]

or I need to proof read before I post.

Experience....(the other word did make it more interesting)

Tom

It seemed tortured wording to roll in exocrine as a reference to pheromones, but I was hopeful.

Time and again, I prove I'm not that smart or clever.

Tom

 

[HarveyWildes]

ShaperMaker ten years down the road - hundreds of autonomous ants that crawl over a piece of wood and shape it in 3-D.  Arbitrary size in all three dimensions.  You'd just need three reference points to orient by.

And hopefully the reference points would be established via radio transmitters instead of needing to put special tape all over the piece.

Or they could use more biological methods like exocrine pheromones .

 

[Michael Kellough]

ShaperMaker ten years down the road - hundreds of autonomous ants that crawl over a piece of wood and shape it in 3-D.  Arbitrary size in all three dimensions.  You'd just need three reference points to orient by.

And hopefully the reference points would be established via radio transmitters instead of needing to put special tape all over the piece.

Or they could use more biological methods like exocrine pheromones .

But then you need a pheromone printer to distribute the pattern.  [unsure]

I just noticed that even the spell checker thinks exocrine is weird.
When I looked it up, it did seem possible that it could fit with Tom's story.
I imagined a young technician encountering a foreign control system for the first time...
the activation of exocrine glands could ensue,
But Tom would not have let on...

 

[HarveyWildes]

ShaperMaker ten years down the road - hundreds of autonomous ants that crawl over a piece of wood and shape it in 3-D.  Arbitrary size in all three dimensions.  You'd just need three reference points to orient by.

By that time they will not be taking orders from inferior humans. It will be us doing things for our robot masters if they decide to keep us around.

Creepy - brings to mind Enders Game and the aliens in the summer blockbuster TV hit Brain Dead.

 

[tjbnwi]

Most responses/remarks I've ever gotten for any post I've ever made.

Between this and ending up on Festools FB home page---I'M (getting) FAMOUS.
https://www.facebook.com/Festool/photos/pcb.10154426337020586/10154426334935586/?type=3&theater

Tom

 

[AlexThePalex]

Tom, on the FOG you're already famous.  [smile]

 

[tjbnwi]

Tom, on the FOG you're already famous.  [smile]

Infamous...

Tom