Humans are capable of great things when it comes to design. But nature, many would agree, is the greatest designer of all. Evolution has, over billions of years, perfected the animal and plant species ...

Autodesk worked with NASA to create a space lander prototype that can withstand the temperatures and pressures of outer space. It’s one challenge to design intricate mechanical equipment for Earth. It ...

James has been writing about technology for years but has loved it since the early 90s. While his main areas of expertise are maker tools -- 3D printers, vinyl cutters, paper printers, and laser ...

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is here. The way products are developed and manufactured is changing with advances in artificial intelligence (AI), automation, additive manufacturing, big data ...

New production materials and methods have begun to revolutionize how we make things. If we look at individual manufacturing innovations in areas like the use of carbon fiber in passenger aircraft, ...

As technology moves ever-faster, there is a natural push from everyone to keep up. For engineers, trying to consider all the potential materials and process combinations it is especially tough.

Maybe you believe generative design and artificial intelligence (AI) are years away—nothing to think about. If so, you’re not alone. In Protolabs’ recently released report, Product Development Outlook ...

At NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, engineers are using generative design to build more and iterate less. The shift to using generative design on parts has cut iterations from 31 to four, and ...

Volkswagen Group’s re-conceptualized 1962 Microbus. Source: Volkswagen. Generative design is a type of software that allows engineers and designers to input their design goals, along with performance ...

It’s easy to see machine learning as a creativity-killing, bubble-inducing agent invading our Facebook News Feeds and dumbing-down our Netflix habits. But increasingly, machine learning is finding a ...