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November 10, 2010 - Volume:00 Issue:00

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Porsche Produces First 3D-Printed Aluminum Gearbox
High-end vehicle maker Porsche has produced its first complete housing for an electric drive using 3D printing. The lighter, more rigid, and more compact engine-gearbox unit was produced using an aluminum alloy powder and an additive laser-fusion process. It has passed all the necessary quality and stress tests without any problems.

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Robots Will Walk Among Us by 2161
Given the arc of progress in developing artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, it is inevitable that sometime in the near future (certainly by the year 2161), robots will be walking around among us. That's the thesis Gary F. Bengier, a former Silicon Valley technologist, writer, and philosopher, proposes in his new book, "Unfettered Journey." Bengier writes there will be challenges for humans to find purpose when AIs are pervasive.
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