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. They'll be cooking, cleaning, buying things, shopping, building. But they aren't here. Meanwhile, we have illegal… — 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 you had a fabber, you could custom-make shoes that perfectly fit your feet. Three-dimensional printing will… — 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
