Advances in technology are generally touted as harbingers of glorious new product opportunities. And indeed they are; but the challenges that manufacturers will face in bringing those products to market profitably are typically glossed over.
Three months ago we raised the question of whether our young people are being prepared to take best advantage of the impending labor shortfall. Specifically, we wondered whether the principal focus of our educational establishment is not on the real needs of American business.
ASSEMBLY magazine is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, we are publishing a series of articles examining the past, present and future of various assembly technologies.
A new semiconductor fabrication process developed by engineers at the University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI) is opening up a wide range of possibilities for flexible electronics
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering (St. Ingbert, Germany) are developing a dental prosthesis that releases the correct dosage of the required medicine on a continuous basis.
A team of engineers based at the Volkswagen Design Center in Santa Monica, CA, recently unveiled a concept car that would not be built on a traditional assembly line. Instead, the Nanospyder would assemble itself with nanotechnology.
In 1962, Seattle hosted a futuristic world’s fair called Century 21. Remnants from the fair still exist, such as a monorail system and the Space Needle. A humanoid robot being developed near the landmark structure would probably feel right at home there.
A new battery developed by researchers at Brown University (Providence, RI) uses plastic, not metal, to conduct electrical current. The hybrid device marries the power of a capacitor with the storage capacity of a battery.
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