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May 2, 2018
Meet the autonomous aerial vehicle – basically a personal helicopter – and some other emerging technologies that could be charting the future of transportation.
September 28, 2017
What do you get when you give a design tool a digital nervous system? Computers that improve our ability to think and imagine, and robotic systems that come up with (and build) radical new designs for bridges, cars, drones and much more -- all by themselves.
February 15, 2016
by Mary Scianna
The Liberal Party won a clear majority in the election, taking 54 per cent of the seats in the House of Commons.
August 11, 2013
by Mary Scianna
Innovation. Productivity. Competitive Edge. These three concepts have become somewhat of a mantra in manufacturing. Some may roll their eyes when they hear or read these words for the umpteenth time, but manufacturers cannot ignore them.
June 8, 2017
Here are some of the world's most dangerous and tallest bridges ever built and naturally formed like the Immortal Bridge in China.
October 23, 2012
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
February 21, 2013
The government has announced it’s revamping its immigration rules to increase the speed of skilled trades immigrants into Canada.
February 11, 2018
by Noelle Stapinsky
Measuring technology and offline programming are fundamental for press brake operators to maintain consistent angular accuracy
October 23, 2012
Finding opportunity in Canada’s aerospace industry
by Tim Wilson
As Canadian job shops read the sobering tea leaves on the ups and downs of the manufacturing sector, here are some stats that might make them tipsy: in the next twenty years the big aircraft manufacturers are expecting $4 trillion in global orders from 34,000 new aircraft.
September 5, 2015
In the 2015 British science fiction thriller Ex Machina, a programmer who works for the world’s most popular search engine is asked by the company’s eccentric CEO to administer the Turing test to a humanoid robot he has created, called Ava.
July 2, 2018
The LSEV, manufactured in China entirely through 3D printing, will hit the market next April. It already has 7000 orders from European customers.
October 15, 2018
Aircraft manufacturer Airbus has unveiled a driverless drone-car hybrid that could deliver a fully automated ‘taxi’ service combining road and air travel (maybe rail too) in a single trip.
July 12, 2018
This Hungary based autonomous vehicle company believes self driving cars can navigate with regular cameras.
April 25, 2018
It may not sound like much, but as Fast Company editor Marcus Baram explains, acquiring the ability to assemble an IKEA chair may represent a tipping point for robotics technology.
Watch the video here.
June 20, 2018
The Humanium Project uses metal from melted guns to make watches - and to bring attention to the global problem of armed violence.
November 4, 2019
by Donald Halas
Increasing threading productivity
October 24, 2017
by Kip Hanson
To tap, or not to tap? That is the question
November 14, 2018
This time lapse video shows the fabrication of an ATB Tank Barge by Harvest at Vigor in Portland, Oregon.
September 3, 2018
Time lapse sequences make the construction of this massive suspension bridge – the Osman Gazi bridge over the Gulf of Izmit in Turkey, opened in 2016 – look a lot easier than it actually was.
May 15, 2017
by Kip Hanson
Micro drill manufacturers achieve Lilliputian dimensions, solving big problems for their customers