Fabricated

Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman, Feb 2013 (Wiley)
​Fabricated tells the story of 3D printers, humble manufacturing machines that are bursting out of the factory and into homes, businesses, schools, kitchens, hospitals, even the fashion catwalk. The magic happens when you plug a 3D printer into today's mind-boggling digital technologies. Add to that the Internet, tiny, low cost electronic circuitry, radical advances in materials science and biotech and voila! The result is an explosion of technological and social innovation.

Fabricated provides readers with practical and imaginative insights to the question "how will 3D printing technologies change my life?" Based on hundreds of hours of research and dozens of interviews with experts from a broad range of industries, Fabricated offers readers an informative, engaging and fast-paced introduction to 3D printing now and in the future.

DRIVERLESS

Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman, Oct 2016 (MIT Press)
​Few inventions have changed life as much as the car. These large hunks of steel and horsepower are everywhere, so ubiquitous and deeply intertwined with our lives, jobs and families that we barely pay them any attention. The mundane car, however, is about to become the ultimate mobility device. Thanks to rapid advances in robotics and artificial intelligence, cars are poised to morph into the first mainstream autonomous robots that we will entrust with our lives, creating a cascade of social and economic change.
  • How do driverless cars work?
  • Why has it taken nearly 100 years to create a working driverless car? 
  • What are the technological and social barriers?
  • How do roboticists create artificial perception? 
  • How will this technology change our lives, our businesses, and our cities?
  • What new opportunities lie ahead?
Hod Lipson is a professor of Engineering at Columbia University, deeply immersed in autonomous robotics and one of the most-viewed TED speakers on Robotics and AI. Melba Kurman is a technology analyst and writer, with years of experience in high-tech firms. Together, Lipson and Kurman shed light on one of the most important technological developments of our century.