December 6, 2012

When you hear the word, robot, what springs to mind? It’s often some movie robot with a semi humanoid appearance or it could be one of the movie androids that look just like a human, the Terminator or Data from Star Trek, but in reality, robots don’t need any humanoid appearance, no arms and legs or verbal communication, a robot [...]
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November 6, 2012

Just a few weeks ago we reviewed the book Makers: the New Industrial Revolution, a book focusing on the growing movement toward “small batch” manufacturing, enabled by the powerful combination of computers, the Internet and an exploding array of very capable high quality tools. In the few short weeks since, there have been some interesting developments and comments, underscoring the [...]
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