The way everyday items - from chairs to cars to power tools - are made is being reimagined through a new process called generative design. Using artificial intelligence (AI) software and the compute ...

Humans are capable of great things when it comes to design. But nature, many would agree, is the greatest designer of all. Evolution has, over billions of years, perfected the animal and plant species ...

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is here. The way products are developed and manufactured is changing with advances in artificial intelligence (AI), automation, additive manufacturing, big data ...

It’s one challenge to design intricate mechanical equipment for Earth. It’s another thing entirely to shoot it into space. That’s why Autodesk’s new concept for a space lander, designed for NASA’s Jet ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Kevin Bailey Artificial ...

New production materials and methods have begun to revolutionize how we make things. If we look at individual manufacturing innovations in areas like the use of carbon fiber in passenger aircraft, ...

Manufacturing an industrial product that can go viral with your target audience is difficult. There are so many elements that need to be optimized simultaneously: material, utility, space, strength, ...

It’s easy to see machine learning as a creativity-killing, bubble-inducing agent invading our Facebook News Feeds and dumbing-down our Netflix habits. But increasingly, machine learning is finding a ...

Drug discovery has traditionally been a reductive process—narrowing down, filtering out, and optimizing within established constraints. Generative AI turns that on its head. It is an expansive force, ...

Those involved in product development understand it is a deeply iterative process driven by strict timetables, and the path is riddled with trial-and-error ...

As technology moves ever-faster, there is a natural push from everyone to keep up. For engineers, trying to consider all the potential materials and process combinations it is especially tough.