{"id":136973,"date":"2022-03-17T04:03:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T11:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/ford-uses-mobile-robots-to-operate-3d-printers-without-human-help"},"modified":"2022-03-17T04:03:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T11:03:55","slug":"ford-uses-mobile-robots-to-operate-3d-printers-without-human-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/ford-uses-mobile-robots-to-operate-3d-printers-without-human-help","title":{"rendered":"Ford uses mobile robots to operate 3D printers without human help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ford-uses-mobile-robots-to-operate-3d-printers-without-human-help2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineers at Ford\u2019s Advanced Manufacturing Center have tasked the innovative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/robot\/\">robot<\/a> on wheels \u2013 called Javier \u2013 with operating the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/3D-printer\/\">3D printers<\/a> completely on its own. The autonomous process enables the 3D printer to run continuously with no human interaction needed, increasing throughput and reducing the cost of custom-printed products.<\/p>\n<p>Ford says Javier is always on time, very precise in its movements, mostly spends its day doing nothing but 3D printing, only taking a \u201cshort break\u201d to recharge the batteries. The company has achieved great accuracy with Javier, using its feedback to significantly reduce margins of error. The method can also be applied to a vast array of robots already working at the company to increase efficiency and reduce cost.<\/p>\n<p>Ford has filed several patents for the technology in its drive to innovate. Javier can communicate with Ford\u2019s 3D printer, something that isn\u2019t necessarily as easy to pull off as it sounds. The robot does not require the use of a camera vision system to \u201csee.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers at Ford\u2019s Advanced Manufacturing Center have tasked the innovative robot on wheels \u2013 called Javier \u2013 with operating the 3D printers completely on its own. The autonomous process enables the 3D printer to run continuously with no human interaction needed, increasing throughput and reducing the cost of custom-printed products. Ford says Javier is always [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}