Welcome to ASME Mechanisms & Robotics Committee Video Site!
Mechanisms and robotics are geometry in motion. Viewing this motion is imperative for the continued advancement of the work of the ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Committee. In response to the advances in video and internet, the M&R committee has established the video subcommittee to address the need of showcasing the community’s work. The philosophy of the video committee is to provide a place for those in the M&R community to disseminate, archive, and educate via high quality videos. It is not meant to be a replacement for other websites that currently serve other areas (e.g. ParalleMIC and Cornell’s Kinematic Models for Design Digital Library), but rather give the mechanical engineering perspective on mechanisms and robotics.
This subcommittee will utilize the foundation provided by YouTube to create a clearinghouse of the M&R community. The committe has created an ASME Mechanisms and Robots YouTube channel which will be completely controlled by the committee.
ASME Mechanisms and Robots YouTube channel
Goals of the Subcommittee
The goal of the subcommittee is to create an electronic-type video journal that focuses on the mechanisms and robotics. The goals of the video journal are threefold:
- Dissemination: The first goal is to provide a Clearinghouse where the community's work can be easily accessible and foster discussion. The power of a community lies in leveraging communication and interchange between the members to create artifacts that are bigger than the sum of the parts. Currently, most videos from the M&R community are housed on separate servers which may or may not be known to those in the community, which we seek to remedy via this portal.
- Archive: As the community continues to evolve, the history of the mechanisms can be lost and forgotten. Failure of the community to remember its past will result in it repeating it again. In the case of engineering, the use of past techniques can help leapfrog the technology to a new level. As is evidenced by the video archive of the Reuleaux collection at Cornell University , these novel mechanisms can be implemented anew and should be archived.
- Education: A community without encouraging new members to join will become stale and stagnant. Only by encouraging a new wave of members can a group continue to thrive and grow. It is without a doubt that a video can have a much larger impression on those new to the field than a picture or even words. Exciting these future members can easily be done by showing the wonderful world of motion that this community has created.
