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Enlarge / How it’s made: silicon wafers! (credit: Micron) At Micron’s memory chip fabrication facility in the Washington, DC, suburb of Manassas, Virginia, the entire manufacturing area is blanketed in…
Enlarge / “Oh brave new industry, that has such bots in’t!” (credit: Javier Pierini / Getty) The Matrix. Skynet. Roy Batty. Anyone who has watched a science-fiction movie has seen…
Enlarge / Sensors, sensors everywhere! (credit: Getty / 7postman) Ars yesterday wrote a big feature on the concept of “Industry 4.0,” the fancy-sounding name that describes the ongoing shift in…
Enlarge / Robots making things! (credit: Getty / Ekkasit Keatsirikul / EyeEm) Big data, analytics, and machine learning are starting to feel like anonymous business words, but they’re not just…