Robot substructure gradients

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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

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