Similar to computer technology in the '60s, 3-D printing is a universal technology that has the potential to revolutionize our life by enabling individuals to design and manufacture things. — Hod Lipson Copy Share Image
So, where are the robots? We've been told for 40 years already that they're coming soon. Very soon they'll be doing everything for us.… — Hod Lipson Copy Share Image
We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated, and we… — Hod Lipson Copy Share Image
Restrictions are difficult to enforce in a world where anybody can make anything. — Hod Lipson Copy Share Image
The only way to make something cheaply today is to have it mass-produced. For example, you wear the same shoes as everyone else. If… — Hod Lipson Copy Share Image
3D printing is already shaking our age-old notions of what can and can't be made. — Hod Lipson Copy Share Image
When it costs you the same amount of manufacturing effort to make advanced robotic parts as it does to manufacture a paperweight, that really… — Hod Lipson Copy Share Image
We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy,… — Hod Lipson Copy Share Image
If you're talking 100 years, there's no doubt in my mind that all jobs will be gone, including creative ones. And 100 years is… — Hod Lipson Copy Share Image
The next episode of 3D printing will involve printing entirely new kinds of materials. Eventually we will print complete products - circuits, motors, and… — Hod Lipson Copy Share Image
The moment somebody is making money off the recipes, that's when you'll see digital rights management around it. — Hod Lipson Copy Share Image
I think, once recipes become digital, pirating a digital recipe and all the questions that you have with music and so forth will become… — Hod Lipson Copy Share Image
Basically, any material you can squeeze, melt or generate into a powder, you can print. — Hod Lipson Copy Share Image
