"None of us has ever lived through a genuine industrial revolution. Until now. Digital technology is transforming every corner of the economy, fundamentally altering the way things are done, who does them, and what they earn for their efforts. In The Wealth of Humans, Economist editor Ryan Avent...

Chapter 1: Industry 4.0 in retrospect and in context -- Part 1: Technical Perspectives -- Chapter 2: Additive Manufacturing – Past, Present, and the Future -- Chapter 3: Additive manufacturing from the point of view of materials research -- Chapter 4: Robotics in Manufacturing – The Past and...