APPLICATIONS OF FRACTAL ROBOTS
Figure 12
One of the
biggest problems in civil engineering is to get enough bridges built as rapidly
as possible for mass transit and rapid development of an economy. Shape
changing robots are ideal for making all manners of bridges from small to the
very largest. The bridging technology introduced here can be used to patch up
earthquake damaged bridges, and they can also be used as a means for the shape
changing robot to cross very rough terrain. To grow a suspension bridge, the
shape changing robot grows a bridge by extending a rod and it feeds the rod
using the L-shape streamer from underneath the rod. The bridge
assembly machine is built principally from simple mass manufactured repeating
cubes that move under computer control, and reshape into different scaffolds in
a matter of seconds
2. Fire fighting
Fire
fighting robots need to enter a building through entrances that may be very
small. The machines themselves may be very large and yet they must get through
and once inside, they may have to support the building from collapse.
To
a great extent fire fighting is an art and not completely reliant technology.
You need men and machine to salvage the best out of the worst possible
situations and often application of a little common sense is far better than
sending in the big machines.But
equally there are times where only machines with capabilities far beyond what
we have today are capable of rescuing a particular situation. The application
of shape changing robots is about those situations.
3. Entering Buildings
Shape
changing robots can enter a building through entrances that are as small as 4
cubes. Figure 1 below shows what a robot can do to enter a room through a
duct. These shape changing robots could be carrying a fire hose in which case
on entering they can apply the hose immediately.
Figure 13
Medical
technology in the future may be applied on the spot to victims of
fire using shape changing robots that are completely integrated into the robot
in a machine that is fundamentally identical to the robot - only fractally
smaller.
Only
a shape changing robot with fractal fingers and fractal tools can sift through
the rubble without disturbing it further to search for survivors and bring them
out alive. Using convetional methods, you always run the risk of trampling over
someone with your equipment or loosening something that leads to further
disturbance.
4. Defense technology
The
use of new technology of fractal shape changing
robots in defense applications
is going to completely change the way warfare is conducted in the next
millennium.
The
machines even at the slow speeds shown in animated figure above can dodge
incoming shells at 2 km distance by opening a hole in any direction. While
most tanks and aircraft need to keep a 4 km distance from each other to avoid
being hit, this machine can avoid being hit and return fire inside 2 km, while
carrying a formidable array of fractal weapons integrated into a true
multi-terrain vehicle, making them totally lethal to any passing war
fighters, aircraft, tanks, and armoured personnel carriers; surviving shelling,
rockets and missiles. As the technology moves on to hydraulic &
pneumatic technology, shell avoidance is feasible at practically point blank
range.
Nothing survives on extended warranties
in a battlefield.
With self repair, these immortal machines are no
match for state of the art research directions in present day military robotic
systems, which are mere toys in comparison.
| 5. Earth Quake Applications: |
Once
a building is damaged by earthquakes, the terrain inside (and outside) the
building is completely undefined. You need true multi-terrain vehicles with walking
abilities that can transform interchangeably into crawling
machines to get past obstacles and reach the buildings and structures
that need to be repaired. You need fire
fighting robots to fight fires, you medical
robots to look after the injured and you need that same
machine to become the machines that will enter the buildings, erect support
structures and prevent it from collapsing. Figure 15 and 16 below show how a
very large shape changing robot can enter a building through a narrow window
and rebuild itself one on the other side.
6. Medical Applications
A
fractal robot system with 1 mm cubes can squirt into the human body through a 2
mm pin hole and rebuild itself inside the body into surgical instruments and
perform the operation without having to open up the patient
A
size 1 mm is just adequate for nearest point of entry into the site of injury
from the surface to perform very complicated surgery to remove cancers, cysts,
blood clots and stones. The machine reaches its objective from nearest
geometric point of entry by threading itself past major blood vessels or
pinching and severing them if they are not for negotiation. The smaller the
machines the more readily it can be used to directly operate from the nearest
entry point with the least amount of wounding to the patient.
A
machine like this could operate on shrapnel victims. As shrapnel is a fractal
object, the wounding it causes is fractal in nature. Thus a fractal machine is
needed to deal with a fractal wound. The faster the machines operate all around
the body, the more likely the patient can survive the damage. In normal use,
this machine must be able to drain bad blood and fluids, detect and remove all
foreign objects that have entered the body, sew up minor wounds after cleaning
and medicating them, sew together blood vessels and nerve bundles using
microsurgery methods before sealing major wounds, move shattered bone fragments
inside the body and hold them in position for a few days while it sets back,
and when necessary, perform amputations that involves cutting through flesh and
bone. This surgical robot as described is called a Fractal Surgeon.
7. Space Exploration
Space
is probably one of the best application areas for fractal robots because of its
cheapness, built in self repair and 100% automation possibilities.
Space is extremely expensive and if things
go wrong and there is nowhere to turn for help. Using fractal robots it is
possible to build anything from space stations to satellite rescue vehicles
without any human intervention.
Will be in near future......!!!!
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| Imaginary assembling unit of fractal robots for mass production |
LIMITATIONS
- Technology is still in infancy
- Current cost is very high($1000 per cube for the 1st generation of cubes, after which it will reduce to $100 or so).
- Needs very precise & flexible controlling software.
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