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California Polytechnic State University recently opened a state-of-the-art smart manufacturing facility dedicated to hands-on education and applied research in industrial automation and robotics.

Lawmakers in every state in the union have filed legislation to ensure that consumers have access to the parts, tools, and documentation needed to repair their stuff. This year alone, right-to-repair legislation is being actively debated in 24 states.

Assembly processes that were once relatively mundane, such as windshield installation, now require more effort and precision.

The proposal is intended to boost domestic manufacturing investment.

Engineers at the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) are harnessing additive manufacturing and artificial intelligence technology to develop new ways to improve both the speed of production and the strength of titanium parts.

Accenture’s new report, Rethinking the Course to Manufacturing’s Future, shows that AI, automation and digital technologies will become increasingly important in manufacturing.

The economy today is truly global. Tariffs would be great if the U.S. were the only source of certain goods, but we’re not.

Engineers at Rice University are developing next-generation wearable devices that are smarter, lighter weight and more flexible than current alternatives.

Fully one-third of all U.S. manufacturing inputs come from Canada and Mexico.

LucidSim combines generative AI with physics simulators to enable a quadruped robot to learn from synthetic data rather than real-world experience.