Yeah, a tattoo printer would have to be at least a 5 axis robot. Technically, that’s not a huge issue, and even pressure sensing or using machine vision to adjust the print aren’t that difficult to do.
But even if it becomes a mass produced device, manufacturing costs for the robot part alone would be at least 3k-5k and then you will need a skilled operator to control that thing.
So you are replacing a minimum wage tattoo artist with an expensive robot and an even more expensive robot operator.
Doesn’t really make sense.
The same thing holds true, btw, for pretty much all “humanoid robot applications”. Minimum wage wokers are incredibly cheap, maintenance and setup costs (aka healthcare and education) are paid for by the employee, there’s no vendor lock in and if you don’t need them anymore you can just fire them whenever you want.
That’s incredibly hard to compete against for a generalized robot.
Yeah, a tattoo printer would have to be at least a 5 axis robot. Technically, that’s not a huge issue, and even pressure sensing or using machine vision to adjust the print aren’t that difficult to do.
But even if it becomes a mass produced device, manufacturing costs for the robot part alone would be at least 3k-5k and then you will need a skilled operator to control that thing.
So you are replacing a minimum wage tattoo artist with an expensive robot and an even more expensive robot operator.
Doesn’t really make sense.
The same thing holds true, btw, for pretty much all “humanoid robot applications”. Minimum wage wokers are incredibly cheap, maintenance and setup costs (aka healthcare and education) are paid for by the employee, there’s no vendor lock in and if you don’t need them anymore you can just fire them whenever you want.
That’s incredibly hard to compete against for a generalized robot.