Artificial intelligence (AI) promises that organizations will be 40-percent more efficient by 2035, unlocking an estimated $14 trillion in new economic value to global GDP by 2030, according to PwC.

The RoboCrane—now hard at work at the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear cleanup sites—is a good example of a successfully commercialized technology invented at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). I’ll try to tell that story here.

First published Oct. 15, 2021, on MIT News.

Risks are inherent in the construction industry, and they come in various types.

In the last few years, a class of materials called antiferroelectrics has been increasingly studied for its potential applications in modern computer memory devices

China’s dominance in manufacturing has made it the factory for the world.

First published Nov. 5, 2021, on MIT CSAIL News. 

In September 2021, I was fortunate to attend the FABTECH conference in Chicago, a sprawling trade show with what must have been billions of dollars of manufacturing equipment on display: robots, automation, 3D printers, you name it.

Believe it or not, the technology that brought you Bitcoin is beginning to make waves in the food manufacturing industry. This technology, called blockchain, is a digital ledger maintained across several computers, then linked through a peer-to-peer network.

This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine.

The way the United States typically finances hospitals isn’t working. The coronavirus laid this bare, along with many other long-standing societal problems.