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Mallory and Patricia from our Customer Experience team are channeling their Halloween spirit! We’re bringing you October’s roundup in style, with tiny robot armies, micron-level machining, and robotic pumpkin surgery. Hardware Knowledge A “metalens” sensor for microbots was inspired by the depth perception of jumping spiders. + How kirigami paper cutting led to micron-level […]

Our roundup video host this month is Panos, a Technical Project Manager here at Fictiv! He’s adding a multi-language spin to this month’s roundup. We’re diving into chainless bikes, robotic grippers, and the first robot-assisted remote heart surgery. Hardware Knowledge UAV Turbines has successfully completed the first flight of a drone with a microturbine […]

Manufacturing is a key component of economic growth. However, in August 2019, with the global trade war raging, the direction of manufacturing growth in the U.S. was below the neutral 50.0 threshold for the first time in a decade. The index then fell again in September almost two more percentage points, causing the weakest growth since […]

Our roundup host this month is Swetha, a manufacturing engineer on our operations team! This month, we’re taking a look at origami robots, stick-on health sensors, and autonomous flight. Hardware Knowledge These origami-like soft robots are fully untethered and move in response to external stimuli. + A tiny, two-legged PCB robot. The Air Force is […]

Our roundup host this month is Drew, our Content Marketing Manager here at Fictiv! We’re diving into brain-machine interfaces, prosthetic arms, and robotic actuators. Hardware Knowledge Tesla is working on building a giant new casting machine to produce the Model Y frame in almost a single piece. Sumitomo has developed an “energy harvester” tire that […]

我们6月硬件综述视频主机Kat, Software Engineer here at Fictiv! Our highlights this month include cell tower balloons, unique robotic designs, and tariff tension updates. Hardware Knowledge The time-intensive CNC process behind Apple’s new Mac Pro grille design. + End-of-life AirPod impact. Rivian’s battery system can transition to stationary energy […]

2018 was full of challenges (old and new) for product developers bringing new products to market. Agility is key in the midst of trade tensions 62% say tariffs have increased their material/component costs More teams are turning to local options for prototyping and production manufacturing Bridging the production gap is still high risk 30% of respondents don’t […]

It’s an exciting time to be a product developer. Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning are inspiring an explosion in new product categories. In this increasingly complex industry, the partnership between developers and manufacturers has never been more important. So for this year’s report, we wanted to survey developers as well as manufacturers to understand where the […]

How Teams Stay Agile in the Midst of Tariffs & Increasingly Complex Supply Chains 2018 was full of challenges (old and new) for product developers bringing new products to market. Companies across America, from large enterprises to small startups, have encountered exaggerated supply chain and resource constraints when trying to get to market as a […]

Our roundup video this month is hosted by Andy, Fictiv’s Director of Supply! We’ll be diving into butterfly mechanisms, digital circuit breakers, and the latest in sanctions. We’ve also included a special section dedicated to the most compelling findings from our State of Hardware report. Hardware Knowledge Apple is tweaking the design of its butterfly […]