The Flagship Proposal is an answer to a call by the EU Future Emerging Technologies FP7 Program to create a federated European effort over the next 10 years towards a major scientific goal with a transformative impact on society. This flagship aims at establishing a new technology that brings high information density manufacturing under personal control in a biological, socially responsible and sustainable way.
Vision for the public: “The personal computer, along with the world-wide-web, has revolutionized personal productivity of informational content. This revolution will now be extended to the personal production of material objects, produced by personal fabricators hooked to your PC like a printer. Using information on the web, you will be able to design and build smart devices and systems at home with inbuilt integrated computing, sensors and moving parts, with the help of millions of online users and a vast repertoire of evolving modular designs, spanning personalized health care to smart photovoltaic devices. The production is sustainable through smart recycling of materials, and on site production and accountability. This is a world in which changing individual, social and environmental requirements can come first even for those with special needs currently missed in our mass-production society. This is a world where both information processing and material production evolve by individual choices. Welcome to the personal fabricator network.”