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...work. The key point is that once the design is finalised, the cost and effort required to make a single instance of that design versus a large batch are similar. This is almost unheard of in manufacturing and could be called a paradigm shift...Additive manufacturing: 6 Finished parts - The advent of AM was essentially the improvement of RP to produce a functional part. RP...

...working age,” says Tony Belpaeme, Professor in Intelligent and Autonomous Control Systems at Plymouth University. Traditionally among the poorest paid of the workforce, carers are an ever more scarce resource. Policy makers have begun to cast their eyes towards robots as a possible source of compliant and cheaper help. The robots already in production, Belpaeme tells...

...work towards gaining a digital badge. Badged courses are a key part of The Open University’s mission to promote the educational well-being of the community . The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. To complete a course you need to be able to find about 24 hours of study time, over a period of about eight weeks....