Rather, the reconstruction of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, with facilities like New
Lab, will provide a home for the new face of manufacturing in the U.S. Uncle Sam is gaining a foothold in some of the earlier stages of manufacturing, a
process called prototyping, and in some of the more
sophisticated, advanced types of manufacturing.
As a graduate student at M.I.T.'s Media
Lab, he wanted to teach a robot to talk, so he programmed Toco with
sophisticated image and speech
processing software combined with machine - learning algorithms that he hoped would do the trick.