Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2026 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM - Intelligent Manufacturing What if manufacturing systems and materials could sense, adapt, and respond? We often think of manufacturing as shaping raw materials into parts, but this talk explores a different vision: using intelligent systems to embed functionality directly into materials. Examples include self-monitoring additive structures, robotic ecosystems, and biomedical materials—moving manufacturing toward systems that perceive, decide, and act.