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"Inside the Factory": The Manufacturing Show You Didn't Know You Needed

Jan. 31, 2025
Missing "How It's Made"? The BBC's show delivers hour-long deep dives into production lines, with a fascinating historical twist.
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Eliza: The $420k AI Companion Robot Bringing AI to Life

Jan. 24, 2025
Eliza Wakes Up is a project that's creating a new generation of humanoid robots with AI in a very human-like form to be assistants, conversationalists, and companions.
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A 3D-rendering of an automated robot bee pollinating a blue orchid.
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Vertical Farming 2.0: MIT's Robotic Pollinators Could Take Agriculture to New Heights

Jan. 17, 2025
MIT researchers are working on creating robotic pollinators to help farmers increase yields while reducing the environmental harm of agriculture.
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SenseRobot Chess
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CES 2025: When AI Meets Daily Life

Jan. 10, 2025
Step into a world where robots play chess, necklaces track emotions, and AI dolls tell bedtime stories—welcome to CES 2025.
Top Fun Manufacturing Innovations of 2024
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Top Fun Manufacturing Innovations of 2024

Dec. 27, 2024
Read through 2024's most entertaining and thought-provoking manufacturing innovations, where the serious business of industrial progress meets the spirit of human imagination....
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There's a New Type of 3D Printing in Town and It Uses Lasers

July 12, 2024
FMAP combines 3D printing and lasers to create multimaterial, multilayered sensors and circuit boards, even going as far as printing sensors embedded within a structure.
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TOKUFASTbot solving a Rubix cube
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Robot Beats Guinness World Record of Fastest in the World to Solve Puzzle Cube

July 5, 2024
A Guinness World Record has been awarded to an engineering team from Mitsubishi Electric Corporation for creating a robot that can solve a puzzle cube in just 0.3 seconds— demonstrating...
Fun Innovations Friday: Robot Can Be Your Body-Double With Just 40 Hours of Learning
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Fun Innovations Friday: Robot Can Be Your Body-Double With Just 40 Hours of Learning

June 28, 2024
Researchers from Stanford University have created a robot that can essentially be your clone by learning and mimicking your movements.
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Running on Wine Corks: The Company Replacing Petroleum-Based Foams in Footwear

June 14, 2024
ReCORK and SOLE have created a carbon-negative alternative to fossil fuel foams made completely from recycled wine corks.