{"id":13375,"date":"2024-07-09T12:34:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T19:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13375"},"modified":"2024-07-11T12:39:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T19:39:42","slug":"astronaut-robots-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/07\/09\/astronaut-robots-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronaut Robots Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/composites-manufacturing-boeing-drones-arris-9t-orbital-a422de1b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A New Age of Materials Is Dawning, for Everything From Smartphones to Missiles<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Labor-intensive manufacturing has limited the use of lighter, stronger composites but that may change with emerging techniques<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/news\/author\/christopher-mims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Christopher Mims<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"He&#039;s Printing Spacecraft... On The Moon | Orbital Composites\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PQ9WJD4aMyI?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There have been only a handful of ages of new materials in the history of humankind\u2014ceramics, steel and plastics come to mind\u2014and we are now on the cusp of the next one: composites.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we talk of composites, we\u2019re speaking about such things as the carbon-fiber ones in wind turbines, race cars and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/BA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Boeing<\/a>\u00a0787. Such materials have the advantage of being far lighter than the metal parts they typically replace, while being just as strong, and requiring fewer resources to make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Materials scientists have had limited success making composites affordable and accessible for decades, or possibly millennia\u2014technically, they were invented by the Mesopotamians. The labor-intensive nature of their manufacturing has made them expensive, which has limited their application to a handful of&nbsp;areas where their advantages outweigh their costs, such as the aerospace industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, thanks to new manufacturing techniques that can churn out composite parts quickly and cheaply, all of that is changing, and the results could be both profound and exciting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/composites-manufacturing-boeing-drones-arris-9t-orbital-a422de1b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at WSJ<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Wall Street Journal A New Age of Materials Is Dawning, for Everything From Smartphones to Missiles Labor-intensive manufacturing has limited the use of lighter, stronger composites but that may change with emerging techniques By\u00a0Christopher Mims There have been only a handful of ages of new materials in the history of humankind\u2014ceramics, steel and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}