‘Robot, Make a Chair’
Computer-aided design (CAD) systems are tried-and-true tools used to design many of the physical objects we use each day.
Computer-aided design (CAD) systems are tried-and-true tools used to design many of the physical objects we use each day.
There are some jobs human bodies just weren’t meant to do. Unloading trucks and shipping containers is a repetitive, grueling task—and a big reason warehouse injury rates are more than twice the national average.
NIST researcher Jack Glover holds a test object for millimeter-wave imaging systems—scanners that are used to check passengers in many airport security lines.
If you’ve flown in the U.S. in recent years, you’re probably familiar with the airport security experience of entering a booth, raising your hands above your head, and having a machine check your body. That machine is called a millimeter wave scanner.
Artec Spider II 3D-scanning a geological sample.
Traditional styles of lecturing and imparting information can be ineffective in terms of student engagement and triggering deeper learning.
Medical devices are engineered to solve complex clinical problems. Yet many enter the field without a full accounting for what happens after deployment. Hospitals depend on equipment that performs consistently.
In today’s energy sector, regulatory complexity isn’t a temporary headache—it’s the new normal.
Your IT team enabled Copilot and Gemini last quarter without checking with the lawyers. Now your employees are putting company secrets into systems that nobody owns, nobody governs, and nobody can reliably retrieve when opposing counsel sends a subpoena.
The demos look slick, the promises even slicker. In slides and keynotes, agentic assistants plan, click, and ship your work while you sip coffee.
For years, manufacturers have been told the future of Industry 4.0 lives in the cloud. Vendors promised plug-and-play AI that could analyze everything, automate anything, and transform the factory floor overnight.
Here’s something nobody saw coming: The generation most skeptical of AI isn’t the one that doesn’t understand it. It’s the one that understands it best.
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