Today it can take considerable resources, effort and time to build a single robot. But at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania and Harvard, a team of researchers is heading up a new five-year project called An Expedition in Computing for Compiling Printable Programmable Machines. The goal is to develop the program and hardware
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The marriage of computers and manufacturing is rapidly moving us towards mass customization. Called fabbing, digital fabrication is becoming rapidly affordable and doable. We are not far away from the replicators of Star Trek here in the 21st century.
In this posting we look at the history of machines and the move to introduce a machine-computer interface.
