Walk through the South Hall of McCormick Place in Chicago during The International Manufacturing Technology Show, and little looks different from past years. The big iron—massive vertical and horizontal machining centers designed to carve metal parts out of steel bars and blocks in seconds—was on display.
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But turn around, and the story’s a bit different. Nestled between companies offering metal linear guideways and material flow management or robotic welding systems are some familiar names in technology: Google, Microsoft, AWS. While each booth is different, the messages were remarkably similar.
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