Robot substructure gradients
From apm
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The part quantity vs part diversity design space matrix
Quantitative gradient
How many reversibly recomposable pre-produced base-parts is a robot made of.
Very few parts necessitate complex pre-made substructures within the parts.
Thus a low degree of selfreplicativity
There are robots that …
- assemble modular structures but are themselves single piece monolithic.
- assemble replicas out of a few still quite complex pre-produced pieces.
- assemble replicas out of a out of a lot of pre-produced pieces that all are quite simple in nature.
Degree of diversity gradient
How big is the variety in the pre-produced base parts.
There are robots that …
- assemble replicas out of pre-produced blocks that are pretty much all the same shape
- assemble replicas out of pre-produced parts that come in a wide variety of shapes
