Ruby able to crack the glass of Cordo's cockpit seems like a major design flaw. It could be excused that this robot was intended to be used against giant Grimm who are unlikely to be capable of precise aiming, but not by much.

Also, Ren's difficulty in climbing the Colossus would explain why he got a grappling hook attachments in his weapon upgrade.

Like I said in the last post, the fight in Argus is foreshadowing the conflict with Atlas in a microcosm. But while Cordo personified the leadership, Adam represents the people who were abused by Atlas' system, as symbolized by the SDC brand over his eye. It goes a long way of explaining why Blake and Yang try to make peace with Robyn's group. (If you have something to add, try to make it original. I'm tired of seeing the same posts over and over.)

Dragonslayer

"Well hey, at least...at least we match....*sniff* I'm sorry."

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Knightfall

"How dare they....how dare they!"

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Arcwitch

"Jaune...I...Oh gods, you...I will make them pay."

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Arkos

Arc welding, from our latest robotics build day.

Camera: Nikon D40X

ISO: 200

Shutter speed: 1/250

F-Stop: 5.6

Arc welding and additive manufacturing are hugely important for creating large metal components relatively inexpensively and quickly.

New research led by Professor Hongbiao Dong from the University of Leicester's Department of Engineering has shown how to optimise this process to improve efficiency and cost.

The research, which was a collaboration between the University of Leicester, Delft University of Technology, Diamond Light Source, University College Dublin and TATA Steel Research UK was recently published in Nature Communications.

It explores the internal flow behaviour in additive manufacturing of metals and arc welding -- the most widely used welding process in modern manufacturing.

The work focused on examining the melt pools that are created during the welding process.

To do this, the team inserted small tungsten and tantalum particles into the melt pool. Due to their high melting points, the particles remained solid in the melt pool long enough for them to be tracked using intense beams of X-rays.

The X-rays were generated using the synchrotron particle accelerator at Diamond Light Source, which is the UK's National facility for synchrotron light. Beamline I12 was selected for this research due to its specialised high energy, high-speed imaging capability at thousands of frames per second.