The Economist2d
The race is on to build the world’s most complex machine
Yet unlike software, where industry leadership can shift in a matter of months, success in lithography is a slow-moving race ...
ZNetwork on MSN14d
Why The War on Dreams Must Inspire Us to Build the Greatest Desire Machines the World Has Ever Seen
When I was about 18, I read Angela Carter’s extraordinary 1972 novel ‘The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman’, and in ...
Hackaday8y
Machines That Build Other Machines
When the RepRap project was founded in 2005, it promised something spectacular: a machine that could build copies of itself. RepRaps were supposed to be somewhere between a grey goo and a device ...
Hackaday5y
Building A Foam Machine From A Leaf Blower And A Water Pump
A foam machine can be cheap to build, or remarkably expensive, depending greatly on the materials and hardware you already have to hand. The main components required are a foam cone, a pump ...
Guessing Headlights on MSN1d
Can Robots Build the Ultimate Driving Machine? BMW Puts Them to the Test
In a groundbreaking move, BMW has embarked on a journey to integrate humanoid robots into its manufacturing processes, aiming ...
The Scientist1y
Building Biomolecular Machines
By building on DNA origami, a method for programming DNA to self-assemble into nanoscale shapes, Shih plans to manufacture bigger and more complex molecular robots and to deliver DNA origami cancer ...