topics / Automation

London | December 2017

Shadow Robot builds hands for robots

'If you employ somebody and they put on a pair of gloves to do their job,' says Shadow Robot's managing director Rich Walker, 'then we think it is worth looking at whether a robot can do some of that job instead.'

London | July 2015

HAL Robotics launched to develop 'ubiquitous machine control'

'I made a program to make my house with my robots,' says Thibault Schwartz, developer of the HAL Grasshopper plugin for industrial robots programming. 'That is how everything started.'

Toronto | February 2015

'The idea was to make money, not fill up the factory with automation'

In part 2 of our interview DFM pioneer Sandy Munro talks about the evolution from Design for Automation (DFA) to Lean Design. 'When we moved into computerization of all this stuff, all of a sudden we could take on an aeroplane.'

New York | February 2012

'2000 manufacturing companies within Brooklyn'

Professor Michael Greenstein of the NYU Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn talks about 'design for manufacturability' and the role of CAD (computer-aided design) systems in DFM and DFX. Does manufacturing offer opportunities to the digital generation?

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