The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Mike Field In a time when ...

Can you design a mechanism that will trace out the shape of a heart? How about the shape of a moon, or a star? Mechanism ...

To build a machine, one must know what its parts are and how they fit together. To understand the machine, one needs to know what each part does and how it contributes to its function. In other words, ...

What if you could build a gaming system that doesn’t just match the performance of Valve’s Steam Machine but completely redefines it? ETA Pime takes a closer look at how you can craft your own ...

We still don't know how much the Steam Machine will cost, but it's safe to say it won't be cheap, given how expensive PC parts have become.

Simplified machine designs with fewer components run more efficiently and are less expensive to build. Older mechanical power transmission and actuator technologies, such as chain, rack and pinion and ...

What began as a Ph.D. project has grown into a website with 120,000 unique visitors each year. With the platform OpenML, researcher Jan van Rijn is contributing to open science, aiming to make machine ...