Singularity University’s Exponential Manufacturing Summit was held in Boston last month. It profiled some amazing technologies that are poised to revolutionise the way we make things.
The Singularity Hub blog summarised their top five technology breakthroughs from the event in an excellent piece you can read in full here. They suggest these five trends are going to change how we make things in amazing ways:
- Machine learning to help solve industrial and mechanical problems
- Smarter, lighter weight robots, with more intelligence and flexibility
- 3d printing at scale
- Augmented reality to help us design and and build
- Biomanufacturing – probably the most speculative item on this list, but coming sometime soon
The full article is well worth a read.