Mr Sims emphasises the importance of testing ideas on consumers using rough-and-ready prototypes: they will be more willing to give honest opinions on something that is clearly an early-stage mock-up than on something that looks like the finished product.
(They stage mock rapes in her apartment).
Ornamental markings cover the floor, and at either end giant stage-flats – mock-ups of the front entrance to Tate Britain and the nearby Clore gallery – appear seamless against the pompous neo-classical architecture.
The next stage is a mock-up of the car, on which revisions and refinements can be worked out.
In front of the stage was a mock-up of a pipeline, looking a bit like the dragon in a Chinese new year parade, with the motto, "separate oil and state".
The algorithms themselves have already been tested on computer software, like RoboCup Rescue Simulator, that simulates human catastrophes with mock ups of people fleeing towns and cities. "The next stage," says Prof Jennings, "is to run some mock disasters in open spaces, and have individual human actors in there, interacting with the robots, doing it for real".
This will provide the link between the present status (the experimental stage of welding) and the planned mid-term future activities, to define preliminary Welding Procedure Specifications (pWPS) for Mock Ups in TBM relevant size in collaboration with industry by prototypical Mock Ups.
It is based on the operators' involvement and the analysis of their needs from the early design stages on virtual mock-ups.
The superjumbo A380 from Airbus, in mock-up stage now, is huge, and that may be one of its problems.
Piasecki soon grounded the aircraft due to airworthiness concerns, and used the airframe in the development of the PA-2B, a planned tiltrotor which failed to proceed beyond the mock-up stage.
We're mocking up and testing different kitchen scenarios.
