Robots in the Workforce: Automation Is a New Era for Engineers

Since the dawn of manufacturing, designers and engineers have repeatedly run up against limitations to making things. Their ability to execute and capacity to afford bringing their ideas to market were once constrained by the manufacturing facility they had to find--either local or offshore--to build the things they wanted to build. But in a new world of enhanced robotics, factory automation, 3D printing, generative design, and design-make-use convergence, engineers' project limitations will fade away. And it's all because machine learning, computing power, and robots in the workforce are increasingly capable and intelligent. Soon, engineers will be able to design the best thing possible and then hand it to robots to dissect and turn into a series of assembled 3D-printed components.