{"id":236520,"date":"2026-05-05T02:40:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/beyond-borders-metaverse-manufacturing-envisions-ai-linked-local-production-built-on-digital-twins"},"modified":"2026-05-05T02:40:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:40:35","slug":"beyond-borders-metaverse-manufacturing-envisions-ai-linked-local-production-built-on-digital-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/beyond-borders-metaverse-manufacturing-envisions-ai-linked-local-production-built-on-digital-twins","title":{"rendered":"Beyond borders: Metaverse manufacturing envisions AI-linked local production built on digital twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/beyond-borders-metaverse-manufacturing-envisions-ai-linked-local-production-built-on-digital-twins.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the past decades, technological advances have fueled great innovation in a wide range of fields. Emerging and rapidly developing technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) systems, three-dimensional (3D) and four-dimensional (4D) printing, digital twins (i.e., virtual representations of physical objects, systems or processes) and advanced robots, are set to further transform many industries and sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at London South Bank University explored the idea of metaverse manufacturing, an industrial ecosystem that would blend technology-enhanced physical production processes with immersive visual environments. In <a href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/rsif\/article\/23\/237\/20250480\/481266\/The-rise-of-metaverse-manufacturing-towards-a?searchresult=1\" target=\"_blank\">a paper published in <i>Journal of the Royal Society Interface<\/i><\/a>, they tried to envision how this ecosystem could work and what technologies it would rely on, while also considering its possible advantages in terms of sustainability and productivity.<\/p>\n<p>The study was conducted within the Mechanical Intelligence (MI) Research Group at London South Bank University, which focuses on bioinspired design and adaptive engineering systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past decades, technological advances have fueled great innovation in a wide range of fields. Emerging and rapidly developing technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) systems, three-dimensional (3D) and four-dimensional (4D) printing, digital twins (i.e., virtual representations of physical objects, systems or processes) and advanced robots, are set to further transform many industries and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}