Mr. Minsky today is a renowned authority on artificial intelligence and robotics.

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Discovery, application, and invention are also occurring in medicine, 3D printing, artificial intelligence, robotics, and many other fields that will change our lives and transform entire industries.

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Global manufacturing is at the cusp of a massive transformation as the new economics of energy and labor plays out and a set of new technologies robotics, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, and nanotechnology are advancing rapidly.

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As some of the later speakers at the conference pointed out, particularly Avi Reichental, Chief Executive Officer, 3D Systems and Neil Gershenfeld, Director, MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, global manufacturing is at the cusp of a massive transformation as the new economics of energy and labor plays out and a set of new technologies robotics, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, and nanotechnology are advancing rapidly.

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An assortment of technologies is advancing at exponential rates and converging in fields such as robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), computing, synthetic biology, 3D printing, medicine, and nanomaterials.

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In coming years, we will witness an explosion in the use of robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology and synthetic biology.

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Rodney Brooks, Rethink Robotics founder and former director of the MIT Computer and Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, said he hoped Baxter represented a "new concept in manufacturing".

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In "The Man Machine, " he gained access to robotics laboratories and staged a series candid portraits featuring the latest in artificial intelligence going about "their daily lives, " such as responding to e-mails or taking a trip to the water cooler.

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