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HP Opens New 150,000-Square-Foot 3D Printing and Digital Manufacturing Center of Excellence

June 12, 2019 · The Center will be targeting R&D, engineering, co-development, and sustainable innovation for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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Fictiv’s 2019 State of Hardware Report Shows Tariffs Add Complexity for Product Teams Trying to Get to Market

May 7, 2019 · The survey shows teams have instituted tariff engineering measures such as depending on local manufacturers for product assembly and new manufacturing platforms.

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LIFT and Center for Automotive Research to Optimize Joining Methods for Auto Industry

April 26, 2019 · Study will evaluate and test various materials and joining technologies and make recommendations.

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IDTechEx Research Sheds Light on Latest 3D Printing Industry Innovation

April 26, 2019 · All three reports detail 3D printing from a technological viewpoint and include a range of 10-year forecasts to gain a perspective on where this emerging technology.

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Stratasys Snags Top Spot in ABI Research’s Additive Manufacturing Platform Competitive Assessment

March 23, 2019 · Also, Desktop Metal edges out incumbents, earning highest rank in innovation.

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Impact of Automation & Artificial Intelligence on the Workforce

February 15, 2019 · A new Brookings report forecasts automation's sizable impacts on the American workforce through 2030, the authors find demographic and geographic variation in susceptibility throughout the United States based on analysis of over 300 occupations.

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Rize Receives Frost and Sullivan Award for Best Practices in Technology Innovation for Zero-Emissions Polymer Additive Manufacturing

February 11, 2019 · Award given to Rize for technology innovation best practices for zero-emissions polymer additive manufacturing.

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Digitization and Autonomous Driving to Halve Logistics Costs by 2030, finds PwC Study

October 8, 2018 · The Global Truck Study 2018 study by PwC's Strategy& indicates that By 2030, trucking and logistics will be an ecosystem of autonomous vehicles directed by a digitized supply chain, combining driverless, cabless trucks and delivery hubs staffed by robots.

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Driverless Trucks Could Potentially Replace Many of the Nation’s Best Long-Distance Trucking Jobs

September 5, 2018 · A new study by Dr. Steve Viscelli, a sociologist and trucking expert at the University of Pennsylvania, concludes that eroding job quality should be as serious a concern as job loss – and identifies public policies to ensure a future of good jobs in the industry.

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Robotic Automation to Supplant 800 Million Jobs Worldwide by 2030

November 30, 2017 · As many as 800 million workers worldwide may lose their jobs to robots and automation by 2030, equivalent to more than a fifth of today's global labor force according to a new report by the research arm of McKinsey & Co.

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Solving a $45 Billion-Dollar Per Annum Retail Problem with RFID-Reading Warehouse Drones

September 8, 2017 · By coupling airborne drones with smarter RFID systems, MIT researchers have developed a system that enables small, safe, aerial drones to read RFID tags in large warehouses, possibly making missing packages a thing of the past and saving retailers billions lost through faulty inventory records.

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Making Drones Safer By Crashing Into Dummies

March 10, 2017 · As drones become more commonplace, the risk of physical harm from an unskilled pilot or out-of-control copter increase, so researchers at Virginia Tech are finding out how to make these machines safer, with help from a bunch of dummies, of course.

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U.S. Dept. of Energy Awards $5 million for Truck Platooning Study

November 16, 2016 · The study will be led by by Purdue University using Peloton's NEXTCAR project team which includes Cummins, Peterbilt Motors Company, ZF TRW, the University of Arizona and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

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