Place your bets, when will Starbucks / A Company that uses this method start implementing AI to design the buildings and run the printers? The last part of the article they talk about how this was more expensive than normal, but it “addressed a labor shortage.” Motherfuckers will literally spend twice as much just to not pay a human a living wage.
“addressing labor shortage”= finding a way to bypassing the meddlesome union-loving employees.
I was once looking at a robot lawnmower to tend to my ageing parents lawn. I was looking at prices over a thousand bucks and thinking seriously.
My parents hired a local handyman to do it every few weeks for a small sum that across a year would still be less than the robo mower and do a better job at it and without the hurdles of maintaining that mower.
That realisation had me reevaluating automation as a whole.
How many years will that mower last though? I have a riding mower that I paid $2100.00 for… 14 years ago.
If you need 500,000 screws all fitted to a target pressure then automation is what you want. But one off tasks like cutting the grass or trimming the hedge, you’ll end up spending more on the equipment then you’ll save.
Construction experts say the store is an example of an industry figuring out ways to use the technology.
“Experts say thing being used is example of thing being used.”
From a 3d print perspective - holy shit the extrusion is way off. Extra splooge on the corners, layer lines are shit. I’d trash it and recalibrate. Even concrete prints can look better.
Exactly. My printers are currently very pissed off at me for some reason and even in their current state, they could do better than this.
I have an old Ender 3, that rarely turns on, then my Bambu P1s decided to fight dirty one day and the whole damn hotend broke off. Like they glue it up in there or something and I had to buy a replacement… 3 days of torture waiting on that damn thing. But the thing rarely fucks up a print (when pieces don’t fall off), even if I do weird shit like leave supports off and bridge a gap like 4 inches (ok, so inside was thready as fuck, but outside was great, and at 4mm thick and it was for my DWV pipe converted chicken feeder I don’t give af)
with all the union-busting they have been doing recently, they are trying to eliminate that by testing out the automated store.
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They didn’t say in the article just how long it took to build. If you are in the area, did you notice about how long it took to actually put the thing together and get it open?
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Well, that’s unfortunate because they had the old building to get rid of. It would be cool to find out just how quickly it was able to be printed and everything so that we could figure out whether it would be shorter to print buildings that way. I would think it should be, but there’s an awfully large difference between should and reality.
🤔 there’s some jank on this print. Guess they’re just going to accept it.
Clever use of the technology. I wonder if any other businesses are looking into this?
