MIT is working on methods to make manufacturing phones less reliant on humans. If a phone could put itself together, companies would dedicate more time to design or to fix issues faster. That’s why they developed a mixer of sorts #mobilemagic
At MIT Self-Assembly Lab you can find a machine that can put phones together without the intervention of humans. It looks like a washing-machine, only instead of doing laundry, it makes parts “glue” together in a matter of minutes. Engineers simply put pieces of old phones in the mixer and turn it on; these jump up and down until they come together, thanks to magnets.
This idea became reality as they were looking for solutions to save time and money: “Consumer electronics assembly requires a tremendous amount of manual labor or highly customized robotics. This leads to increased cost, assembly time and energy consumption, driving companies to search for cheaper and cheaper off-shore labor.” Plus, it could be an assembly option for modular devices, like the Project Ara.
We’ll see if they can make it work for smarter, more modern devices, also.
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