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Automate: The Day The Robots Took Over

May 30, 2023May 26, 2023 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments AI, artificial intelligence, automate, citizen robotics, cobo, cobot, ergonomic, ergonomics, factorio, fanuc, foxconn, foxconn iai, gotion, hong kong, luo yang, manufacturing, michigan, robots, shenzhen, warehouses, warehousing

It was a robot party at Huntington Place last week. I got to see a lot of machines showing off.

Sustainability Manufacturing

Port Angeles CRTC: Giving New Flight to Aircraft Scrap

March 29, 2021March 29, 2021 Vishva Nalamalapu 0 Comments advanced manufacturing and composite technology, aerospace, aircraft manufacturing, aircraft recycling, boeing, boeing 777, boeing 787, building materials, carbon dioxide, clad, cladding, CLT, composites, composites recycling technology center, CRTC, CRTC port angeles, energy efficiency, energy-efficient, green building, green building materials, manufacturing, nicole wright, olympic mountains, olympic peninsula, peninsula college, pennies for quarters, pickleball, pickleball paddle, port angeles washington, recycled building materials, recycling, repurposing, sequim, sustainable building, sustainable construction, tiny home, tiny house, veterans housing, vishva nalamalapu, washington state, waste

In Port Angeles, Washington, Vishva Nalamalapu hangs out at the Composite Recycling Technology Center, or CRTC, with Michigan transplant Nicole Wright, to learn about all of the cool stuff they are manufacturing from aerospace industry scrap.

Urban Planning Cities & Urban Planning Tech

Tech Launched A Big Push To Fix Cities. What Happened?

March 10, 2021March 10, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments affordable housing, affordable housing shortage, airbnb, backyard, ben huh, cavnue, cheezburger, Ford, GM, google, greg lindsay, heavy timber framing, i can haz cheezburger, manufactured housing, manufacturing, memelord, memes, modular housing, nithin vejendla, platform economy, quiet pivot, Richard Florida, samara, sidewalk infrastructure partners, sidewalk labs, silicon valley, social construct, startup, sustainable cities, tech, tech startup, waste, y cities, y combinator, Y-Combinator, yc

Sidewalk Labs (Google), AirBnB, and Y Combinator all launched ambitious initiatives to build the technologically advanced, equitable, sustainable cities of tomorrow. What happened?

Business & Economics Public transit Transit infrastructure Government

Cato Needs To Re-Toole Their Bad Takes On Infrastructure

February 17, 2021February 17, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments alstom, amtrak, amtrak capex, Amtrak NEC, bad ideas, batman, batman meme, capital expenditures, cato institute, farebox recovery ratio, federal spending, freight, FRR, government bad, government spending, gridlock, high-speed rail, inflation, intermodal, intermodal transit, libertarian, libertarianism, manufacturing, milkshakes, moore's law, multimodal, northeast corridor, northeast corridor tunnel, public transit, randal o'toole, randall o'toole, real clear policy, small government, train, trains, transit

The Cato Institute’s Randal O’Toole has a really terrible take on transportation investment that grossly misrepresents how money and economic efficiency work.

Business & Economics

Detroit Policy Conference Touts Collaboration, Cultivating Local Talent, Transit Connectivity

January 29, 2020January 30, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments corktown, dave coulter, detroit policy conference, detroit regional chamber, dug song, Ford, ilitch, Ilitches, manufacturing, mary culler, Michigan Central Station, mike duggan, motor city casino, shinola, southeast michigan

Months before the Davos of the Great Lakes, a.k.a. the Mackinac Policy Conference, draws visitors to the historic island off

Cities & Urban Planning Affordable housing

The Wealth Gap, Scarcity Thinking, and the Coming Robots

July 19, 2017 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments automation, domestic manufacturing, Donald Trump, economy, Made in America, Manu Saadia, manufacturing, negative income tax, New Urban Crisis, Poverty, Richard Florida, Scarcity, Treknomics, ubi, universal basic income

President Donald Trump announced this week as Made in America week, showcasing and promoting domestic manufacturing. He played in a