A new framework for advanced manufacturing is being promoted in Germany, and is increasingly being adopted by other countries. The framework represents a coalescing of digital and physical ...

First came steam and water power; then electricity and assembly lines; then computerization… So what comes next? Some call it the fourth industrial revolution, or industry 4.0, but whatever you call ...

The term “fourth industrial revolution” has been used in recent years to describe the transformative impact that many believe AI and automation will have on human society. The theory goes that ...

We stand on the brink of a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another. In its scale, scope, and complexity, the transformation will be ...

THE first industrial revolution began in Britain in the late 18th century, with the mechanisation of the textile industry. Tasks previously done laboriously by hand in hundreds of weavers' cottages ...

OUTSIDE THE SPRAWLING Frankfurt Messe, home of innumerable German trade fairs, stands the “Hammering Man”, a 21-metre kinetic statue that steadily raises and lowers its arm to bash a piece of metal ...

Rapidly the knowledge of the chemical revolution was adapted to commercial use. Black and his fellow professor, William Cullen, went on to develop an alkali using the newly discovered element, ...

Understanding the causes of the Industrial Revolution helps place the economic, political and social development of British and Commonwealth society throughout the 19th and 20th centuries in a wider ...