How Community Colleges Are Reinventing Advanced Manufacturing Training
Post-secondary education is not one-size-fits-all: For a path to Manufacturing, many turn to community colleges offering advanced Manufacturing training.
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How to Prevent Malware Attacks (or Pick Up the Pieces After One Has Happened)
An unfortunate side effect of the pandemic work-from-home world is increased vulnerability to computer viruses. Here's how to prevent malware and stay safe.
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How a Custom EEG Headset Could Transform In-Home Brain Rehabilitation
Paralyzed patients often need expensive rehab in hospital settings. One UK researcher's custom EEG headset for home use could improve treatment outcomes.
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How Can Leaders Confront the Skills Gap in Manufacturing?
Closing the skills gap in Manufacturing is crucial to growth and competitiveness post–COVID-19. Here, an MIT professor speaks on upskilling workers by combining digital and hands-on learning.
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Tech’s Breath of Fresh Air Is Improving Patient Outcomes in COVID-19 Treatment
As governments struggle to flatten the COVID-19 curve, here are three tech innovators revamping ventilators to help in improving patient outcomes.
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Meeting the Need for 3D-Printed PPE Means Mastering Distributed Manufacturing
Toronto General Hospital's APIL unit has mobilized small fabrication shops and amateur makers to mass-produce regulatory-approved, 3D-printed PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Massive Hybrid Manufacturing Machine in Europe Pushes Boundaries of 3D Printing
3D printing has hit the big time: A machine collaboratively developed in Europe finally makes hybrid manufacturing (additive + subtractive) possible for large architectural components.
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Leaking Millions, Manufacturers Enlist AI to Stop Supply-Chain Fraud
The finance industry has long used AI to detect fraud. Can it also work for manufacturing? Using machine learning to target supply-chain fraud could save millions in revenue.
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Think PMI Is TMI? Here’s Why 3D Models Need Product Manufacturing Information
Rather than relying on error-prone human interpretations, product-manufacturing information (PMI) lets systems talk to systems—ensuring better, more accurate parts and products.
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How One Start-Up Is Making Hyperloop Technology a Cost-Effective Reality
Although it often gets tangled in red tape, Hyperloop technology is gaining traction. Spanish company Zeleros has a plan—one that could supplant the pollution and inconvenience of air travel.
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How IoT-Connected Products Simplify Life but Create Nefarious Security Issues
Is your kid's teddy bear spying on you? The modern home is full of IoT-connected devices—helpful in everyday life but often vulnerable to hacking and other security issues.
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5 Ways Industrial-Manufacturing “Dinosaur” Claudius Peters Staves Off Extinction
Even a 112-year-old legacy company can innovate: Industrial manufacturer Claudius Peters prioritized new technology and a culture overhaul. Here are 5 steps on its road to “Inspired Excellence.”
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How Would Michelangelo’s Sculpture Look if He’d Had Robot Apprentices?
A sculptor's craft is to uncover—or discover—form waiting to spring forth from stone. But what if the master's apprentice were a robot? What heights could this new approach to sculpture reach?
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3D Printing in Space With Moon Dust Is the Secret to Your Future Home on Mars
NASA's Swamp Works lab at the Kennedy Space Center is experimenting with novel new materials to make 3D printing in space a viable solution for building habitats on the moon and Mars.
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2 Heads—and a Brain-Computer Interface—Are Making Waves in the Art World
Brain-Computer Interfaces have far-reaching potential—both in science and art. Dual Brains is a performance piece that explores, through brainwave technology, what humanity is all about.
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3 Advances Changing the Future of Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly finding its place in the manufacturing sector. Learn how the use of robotics, with the ability to autonomously operate and predict the intentions of...
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Dancing With Robots Shows the Real Power Dynamic Between Humans and Machines
Discover how ballet dancing with robots, as part of an innovative art installation, challenges existing fears and assumptions about human-machine relations.
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