Frontier Machines
Lithography machines, surgical robots, MRI scanners. Each is built as a cutaway model from public sources.
4 plates
Plates 4
- Plate F01 EUV Lithography Machine ManufacturingGoing further Light 13.5 nm long prints a chip’s circuits on silicon, four times smaller than the mask. It comes from tin droplets turned to plasma, and travels only by mirrors. Open →
- Plate F02 Five-Axis Machining Centre ManufacturingGoing further Three straight axes move the spindle, two rotary axes turn the part, and all five move together to cut an impeller from a solid block of aluminium. Open →
- Plate F03 MRI Scanner MedicineGoing further A clinical MRI scanner: a superconducting magnet, gradient coils and RF coils, one inside another. Hydrogen nuclei precess in the field; their signal fills k-space, and a Fourier transform turns it into an image. Open →
- Plate F04 Surgical Robot MedicineGoing further The surgeon operates from a console nearby; the arms pivot each instrument about its incision. Hand motion is scaled down and stripped of tremor on its way to a tip 8 mm across. Open →
