Man builds machine to push phone buttons from half a world away (video)
Now, when you outsource your drafting or modeling to another country, which you shouldn't be doing, consider that there's not even a person on the other end.
Now, we finally have the technology to do "Auto" CAD. No more ManualCAD for you.
Link: http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/27/man-builds-machine-to-push-phone-buttons-from-half-a-world-away/
...Called the Caduceus, it's a telepresence machine that does just one thing -- it controls every single button on each of those three phones with a series of servo motors and actuator cables, and moves a pendulum-like webcam so he can clearly see each screen from wherever he happens to be. .
Now, we finally have the technology to do "Auto" CAD. No more ManualCAD for you.
Link: http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/27/man-builds-machine-to-push-phone-buttons-from-half-a-world-away/
by Sean Hollister
...Called the Caduceus, it's a telepresence machine that does just one thing -- it controls every single button on each of those three phones with a series of servo motors and actuator cables, and moves a pendulum-like webcam so he can clearly see each screen from wherever he happens to be. .
See the video: Man builds machine to push phone buttons from half a world away (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:18:00 EDT
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Interesting take on the billing index. Here's what I'm seeing: most architects are unable to leverage more fee for working in BIM. This is for 2 reasons: BIM's use is still not always driven by the owner. This leads to the 2nd reason: owners need to be informed and convinced of BIM's many benefits. I know you are daily doing your part on this front - we all need to.
I am also not seeing projects taking considerably less time to produce for teams working in BIM. This is probably due to architects not always knowing what level of detail is desirable vs. necessary to produce the model and documents, and the general law of nature that we will fill in whatever time we are given (an architect, like nature, abhors a vacuum.) This will change with greater comfort and familiarity with the tools and process - its coming soon, just not quite there yet.