Optomec, a leading global supplier of production grade systems for 3D printed electronics announced that the company will showcase smart devices manufactured using its Aerosol Jet printers at the Sensors Expo and Conference, held this week at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in California. Optomec will be in booth #1226 where they will demonstrate how products ranging from gas turbine engine blades to consumer hand held devices can be made smart with 3D printed sensors and antennas.
The commercial use of drones took a leap forwards yesterday when a device was flown for more than seven miles over East Sussex.
While metal additive manufacturing (AM) technology is gaining momentum, the level of adoption is still quite low compared to traditional subtractive metalworking methods. In 2017, only 1768 metal AM machines1 were sold worldwide compared to hundreds of thousands of computer numerical control (CNC) subtractive machine tools.
Much has been written and discussed about the merging of the physical, digital and biological worlds with machines. Artificial intelligence has become a catch-all description for replicating something inherently human and embedding it in man-made systems that can perhaps function better, if not at least more efficiently, than our bodies and brains.
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