3D printing is on the agenda for Davos 2020, cementing the technology as crucial for the new decade. The World Economic Forum has published two new items that invite discussion. The first, “Would a digital border tax slow down adoption of 3D printing?”, is a continuation of the conversation around how to treat digital goods. […]
Watch: 3D printed ice-skating robot at World Economic Forum 2019
At this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, ETH Zurich’s robotic engineers showcased their self-learning ice-skating robot, named, Skaterbot. Exhibiting the robot, Stelian Coros, the co-creator of Skaterbot and a professor at the Computational Robotics Lab, ETH Zurich said, “I envision a moment in the not-too-distant future where it will be as easy to create robots […]
Interview: WEF and McKinsey name Industry 4.0 lighthouses
The World Economic Forum (WEF) Initiative on Shaping the Future of Production is collaborating with McKinsey & Company, a New York-based management consulting firm, to find manufacturers successfully implementing new technologies, i.e., the 4IR “[Fourth Industrial Revolution] production lighthouses.” According to McKinsey, the Fourth Industrial Revolution(Industry 4.0) is expected to create up to $3.7 trillion […]
Day Two of 3D printing at IMTS, smart factories and preparing for serial production
Self-driving 3D printed vehicles, beer-pouring robots, robots 3D printing, whirlyball playing robots – ok I made that last one up but automation – together with additive manufacturing – is clearly a dominant theme at IMTS 2018. 3D printing and automation Automation is self-evidently a technology that does not stand in isolation – there must be […]