Jewellery development - brass medals for the anti robot people

Jewellery development - Sand casting

Sand casting our badges- We used the 3D printed model as a master pattern for our sand casting moulds. We had decided to cast in brass as it was cheaper than silver. However we encounter a number of problems. It was difficult to calculate the amount of brass lemel needed, this was because the nylon of the 3D printed model has a different specific gravity to wax and it was not possible to find out the SP of the nylon. The second problem was medal flow within the sand mould, we try positioning the master model in various ways but without success. The third problem was that brass cools very quickly and the cold sand mould hindered this even more. The fouth problem was that brass generally doesn't like to flow very well in it's molten state and given we were just pouring the medal into the mould we had to rely on gravity to pull the medal down into the mould. We also tried with pewter. This yielded better results, however still not at a good enough standard. Our solution was to invest the two 3D printed models and cast them using the centrifugal casting machine. We had also decided to have our design laser cut in perspex.

Final work - History and consequences.

What is happening in 2116?

We are a high tech robot company which is highly established, we are producing robots that are doing jobs for public services which has been happening over a period of time, this means that there have been replacements to jobs over that period of time.

Creating a more advance society, which means that it gives humans more free time to be creative and have creative jobs, more towards science and art sectors. This has created some job loses which has led to some members of society feeling excluded, rebelling against the changes, and the government and our company Actuator Laboratories.

Company ethos & History

Our company ethos is to improve human society and enable the improvement within the job sectors that are particularly dangerous, manually demanding and mundane. The high-spec and state of the art robotics are environmentally friendly, low-maintenance and are designed solely to aid the public.

On the contrary, our idealistic society has inevitably caused conflict and an elitist class-divide within our community. Those of a poorer background have been left out of work and now feel useless and redundant. The cities which are equipped and optimised by our intervention, have abundant and efficient services, this is only available to the ‘elite’ and richer citizens. The poor are left to live in shanty and unkempt locations where the nexus of the rebellion movement thrives.

Development of Jewlery

Images showing the open sand casting moulds and Ivan and Nicky at the Forge melting brass.

Presentation

Final Poster and leaftletsIn

Leaflet inside cover

Leaflet Outside cover

Poster for people who are rebelling against the use of robots and how this could effect their future jobs, roles and society

Poster Advertising sales of Robots.

Possible Utopian Future

With Robots taking over more and more manual tasks leaving humanity more time spent on science, technology, art and design would this create a Utopian future? And what would that look like?

Things hypothesized that only humans would be focused on and towards in this future rather than manual labour (Its not all bad!):
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/22/robots-can-take-over-some-of-our-jobs-but-some-things-only-humans-can-do

How machines are not likely to rises above humans and measures organisations such as Future of Life Institution are taking to stop this:
http://www.livescience.com/49625-robots-will-not-conquer-humanity.html

Will Robots create and economic utopia? :
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-02-11/will-robots-create-economic-utopia

Final Commercial Film

Jewelry & Animation Collaboration: Actuator Laboratories from ECA Animation on Vimeo.

research and developement

Investigating the Industrial Revolution and looking at the effects of mass changes in technologies and the impact this has on wider society and how this would relate to any future changes that could potentially cause mass unemployment or changes in which society could be changed especially when considering status either class or financial.

http://www.luddites200.org.uk/theLuddites.html

robot research and development

  I, for one, welcome our new robot underlings. Photograph: Everett Collection / Rex Feature
 Robots can take over some of our jobs. But some things only humans can do Brooks Rainwater
 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/22/robots-can-take-over-some-of-our-jobs-but-some-things-only-humans-can-do

Completed badges.

The design depicts our company logo, using the initials as a design source. We deliberately choose to have quite a polished and professional look as this reflects the public facing perception our company wishes the public to see. The silver badges could be used for the public who purchase a Home Robot, whilst the Perspex badges could be used for employees of the company.
Possible improvements for the badge design could be; using a brooch bar clasps instead of the button pin for the silver badge. This would prevent the badge from being lost. Maybe etching a surface detail on to both or just the silver design, such as the name of the company or a company division/department name. Could rivet a back plate such as anodised aluminium, or titanium to the Perspex badges.

robot research and development

The evolution of the computer and the direct relation to the deterioration of our memory's.

robot research and development

Why should we fear robots, the can be seen to be carrying out the jobs and tasks that we do not want to do ourselves. they can be seen to be making our lives safer by risk assessing dangerous situations. Outside of the armed forces they are being manufactured as helpers and are not to be feared. What we need to fear is the people who are controlling them. The humans that by the very nature of being human are open to distortion of emotions and likely to abuse the power they have. We need to fear those who use robots to try and control peoples behaviour and actions.

transhumanist

The predicted trend is that we will increasingly try to improve our performance with the use of technological implants. Live longer, stronger and more agile bodies, greater intelligence, direct link with social medias and other networks. Become part computer. Do we face the danger of being taken over by the very computer that we have implanted that uses its logic to govern our behaviour or will our brains kick in and say this is no short of creating a open prison for ourselves where we are police by everyone around us and the technology that is inside us?

robot research and development

The question we must ask is not if, but rather when will we (humans) all be out of a job. Many work places already have robotics which carry out a large proportion of the manufacturing, analytical jobs. What are the side effects of huge job losses? Will we just create roles for ourselves that we justify as necessary? will the robots free us to think about problems in a new way, which was previously not possible.

robot research and development

How long has the concept of artificial intelligence been around? Well I suppose it depends on how you classify artificial intelligence. If you term intelligence by logic and the ability to reason and as a result produce a outcome, then artificial intelligence has been around for quite a while. However if we are talking about emotions, feelings and responding to these in a suitable manner then I still think robots have far to go.