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Having spent past summer looking for a sandal that fit my oddly shaped hobbit feet."robots speed up production and attract new fans" <- 🤓 https://t.co/8CyWwklJKZ
I finally have shoes that don't hurting my feet!Clearance + Coupon + GF's Reward program = they were ~$20!https://t.co/D5DNH3tQlI
Hardest thing in mass producing shoes? Rubber soles.Here's a clip from @testedcom w/ @donttrythis on future of it: https://t.co/bPY3oJ9RDg https://t.co/830UuzJfXt
"A website that contains all of the information required to design build and operate soft robots."https://t.co/qXJpR9sJg1
This is why I think 3d printing is big deal. From simulate to fabricate & onward to innovation. Same guy from 2013:https://t.co/VZFiWx2ae7
Combine origami foldables with meta-materials? Yes please.https://t.co/ukX1VID7yO
Folding paper. It's amazing!https://t.co/RMkRSoEetb
What's really fascinating: the close timing of Sam Calisch's scissor project and release of my fav siggraph video: https://t.co/gdVgKCLsNN
"The Magic Moment"https://t.co/pogQ1Z1RcA
Brb, binging on paper folding and soft robits. If i'm not back in week; wait longer.https://t.co/xrwnQ2tCpS
From that https://t.co/3elc1UReZm video from MIT, I found out more on the space construction robot "Mojo". Its good!https://t.co/8mYx5fU4pp
Video seems to be making the rounds. Here's a longer version of the one that started this thread. incl interview: https://t.co/bbyNfPAtbT
Wow, if correct then this article from 2015 suggests the shoe started development in 2011?https://t.co/Mbp256Vw6cWhy is it trending again? https://t.co/3vmFAtVPwt
Hah, here's the original video. Posted on YouTube a year ago:https://t.co/WJgxuiBCq5Thanks for the good shoes @HODRobotics & @KEEN
@HODRobotics @KEEN Here's the real story. It's an entire freaking factory in a box! Wowhttps://t.co/yomgqx1tQD
The real narrative: U.S.'s manufacturing industry is about building & shipping micro-factories. TL;DR:https://t.co/Vvf7TzElMm
Did you know you can print your own wrench they "emailed" into space?https://t.co/yzt5rkkhWfThis is from 2014: https://t.co/7M0uxSSUvu
In the science of origami video in this thread: shows an unfurloughing satellite solar panel. Idea Published 1995? https://t.co/iLzi8WdunG 😱 https://t.co/EMJtFnyXJG
While Keen is going w/ a scalable worker focused decentralized option,Nike adapts centralized factories for robots;https://t.co/CS5tCUYESm
Guess which strategy leads to agile deployment and flexibility when trying to build an ecosystem around your brand?https://t.co/0EQcA8LK4Y
Neat, @NASAJPL went into detail on origami design. I wonder if @spacemanan knows about flapper earlier in thread.https://t.co/7lM5JEgYFs
Make me giggle when interviewers say "No more nearer to having robots clean our floors"... Roomba came out in 2002 😂https://t.co/dA8806Ke9z
I took a survey on Amazon Turk about how people perceive robots. I bet 90% of the answers will be are about humanoid ones. https://t.co/BiMCdQMa7B
Did you know that iRobot has been around since 1990?There are 15 year-olds who've grown up with robot vacuums. 🤖 https://t.co/yVQfEstEGZ
"All sensing, state estimation, mapping, control, and planning runs in real-time onboard" 😮https://t.co/gJl8SLDI8mhttps://t.co/mZWFDCA2bU
"These are the basic building blocks we need in order to use this stuff for real."https://t.co/awNAg7Usve https://t.co/oE5FzebMPA
It seems Reebok is feeling pressure & trying to stay relevant in the changing shoe industry. But they're trend following?"[...] without molds? We'd get a lot faster and we'd change what we make, how we make it, where we make it, and who we make it with."https://t.co/B2neo7FScR
Past a certain point, all of these trendy new materials blur together and look like ways to market cheaper mold making processes seem more prestigious than they really are. https://t.co/64QcqX5yy6
Its hard to really understand the market because most arm-chair commentators seem to focus on the cost of materials, not the labor, research, and production costs associated with it. E.g. the cost of sole mold is amortized.https://t.co/HA31xROdkP https://t.co/wJbK0TThpf
Meanwhile, I'm trying to figure out how to get toe socks to fit my freakish feet so I can do this: https://t.co/X15wkb6R7n
I don't know why I collect these things, but here's video where they cut away the nike air-filled soles."In 2015 they spent 40.5 million to build a plant that manufactures every one of these soles in the United States"https://t.co/UXP0KpaEHR