Microdeco y Ulma Handling Systems han sido las empresas ganadoras en el XI. Encuentro del Club 400 de EUSKALIT sobre Internacionalización. Ambas empresas serán las candidatas vascas al Premio CEX 2014, organizado por la Asociación de Centros Promotores de la Excelencia-CEX a nivel nacional.

The factory floor is silent but not empty. Dozens of workers dressed in crisp white lab coats, hairnets and matching Crocs are maneuvering dollhouse-size hand tools and manipulating minuscule parts to assemble wristwatches. With loupes to eyes, one line builds the movement–the timepieces’ quartz-powered brain. Another line does nothing but put the dials in place, while others set the hands, fix the case backs and lash the leather straps. This isn’t a clean room in Geneva or a Chinese factory in Shenzhen. These movements are taking place behind the floor-to-ceiling glass wall that separates Shinola’s Detroit he

By automating tasks, we are liberating human imagination and the human spirit. The more we unlock the secrets of technology, the more we find ourselves.

Ever since 1962, when the first industrial robot was installed on an assembly line at a General Motors plant in New Jersey, machines have been replacing human workers.  In the decades that came after, just about every industry became automated to a greater or lesser extent.

Les architectes espagnols Jordi Truco et Sylvia Felipe ont développé un système de construction révolutionnaire au cours d'un projet baptisé HyperMembrane, qui a reçu en 2013 le le Prix Ascamm de l'Innovation. Ce système consiste en une structure architecturale adaptative, capable d'adopter différentes positions en fonction du temps ou des besoins énergétiques.