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if your robots are as efficient as you say they are then there is no need to replace them with gigacasting, what's a few extra pieces to weld together?
by unraveller 2y ago
if your robots are as efficient as you say they are then there is no need to replace them with gigacasting, what's a few extra pieces to weld together?
- cduzz 2y ago"gigacasting" is akin to semiconductor lithography vs discrete logic. A cast part needs a bit of finishing machine work and validation, but is otherwise "liquid metal goes here / finished part comes out" -- very very fast and space efficient. Welding things together introduces dimensional errors, is slow, messy, and requires tons of space. But like semiconductor lithography -- the bigger the output the lower the yields. At a certain point it probably makes sense to just make 2-5 parts and bolt them together vs 1 big part. (See also -- chiplets)