Industrial designers focus on free thinking. Engineers tend to focus on analytics. The two viewpoints make for diverse approaches to product design. Yet both are crucial to the development of ...

Thanks to groundbreaking concepts such as generative design and topology optimization software, additive manufacturing is liberating design engineers in ways that were unfathomable even a decade ago.

Columbia Engineering researchers have developed an AI that can generate kinematic mechanisms directly from visual shape prompts, marking a first in automating this creative engineering process. The ...

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