A fleet of autonomous “SmartCarts”—high-tech, 3D-printed, low-speed electric vehicles—could one day zip around the University of Michigan’s North Campus, taking students, p... Read more
An emerging additive manufacturing technology could be fast and cheap enough to compete with conventional methods, but it faces materials-related challenges The inventor of a new kind of 3-D... Read more
At this pace, the country’s robot population is going to outnumber people. If you are a human who works at the Kawada factory outside Tokyo, most of your coworkers are robots. On the a... Read more
At a General Electric factory in Schenectady, N.Y., tens of thousands of tiny sensors are quietly collecting data about each step in the manufacturing of a battery. The sensors know, for ins... Read more
Thirty years have passed since 3-D printers first appeared, but only recently have they hinted at a new era of manufacturing. The first working 3-D printer was created in 1984 by Chuck Hull... Read more
Graphene is gaining heated attention, dubbed a “wonder material” with great conductivity, flexibility and durability. However, graphene is hard to come by due to the fact that its manufactur... Read more
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have developed a new and more efficient approach to a challenging problem in additive manufacturing — using selective laser melting,... Read more
Mass production of industrial goods, such as furniture, clothing or ball pens, is inexpensive. In the future, even small series of individualized products might be manufactured rapidly and e... Read more
Scientists at The University of Nottingham have developed a new substance which could simplify the manufacture of cell therapy in the pioneering world of regenerative medicine. Cell therapy... Read more
An environmentally friendly candidate material to replace plastics in many high-technology applications Tufts University engineers have demonstrated that it is possible to generate nanostruc... Read more
A new catalytic converter that could cut fuel consumption and manufacturing costs has been designed by a scientist from Imperial College London. A catalytic converter is the component in a v... Read more
There could be hundreds or thousands of applications for this new technology, especially within the prosthetic industry, as carbon fiber is the perfect material for prosthesis. This is the w... Read more
The Objet500 Connex3 Color Multi-material 3D Printer could have implications for design, engineering and manufacturing. Stratasys, a 3D printer marker focused on manufacturing, on Monday lau... Read more
Development of the try-out fixture is complete New models of automobiles are initially manufactured in a pilot production run. A new procedure now makes it possible to transfer the parameter... Read more
Much of what we buy in the U.S. is not made here, and hasn’t been for decades. If 2013 is any indication this could be changing, although the next generation of American manufacturing will d... Read more
