# The AI-Empowered, Superhuman Design Engineer w/ Milan Kocic

- Show: [The Manufacturing Executive](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-manufacturing-executive)
- Published: 2023-09-05
- Length: 27m
- Episode: 169
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-manufacturing-executive/2023-09-05-the-ai-empowered-superhuman-design-engineer-w-milan-kocic
- Listen: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-manufacturing-executive#episode-46a31b6c-23e5-4ba0-96c0-adf6f6f5775f

## Summary

Milan Kocic, Founder and Head of Sixth Sense at Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence, discusses the role of AI in advanced manufacturing and the challenges of the US workforce. He highlights the Sixth Sense accelerator program, which supports startups like GelSight, and explains how generative AI tools from companies like Rafinex and Caster are augmenting design engineers rather than replacing them. Kocic argues that the future of manufacturing lies in collaborative robotics and AI-driven efficiency to address labor shortages and reshape the industry's public perception.

## Chapters

- [0:34](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-manufacturing-executive/2023-09-05-the-ai-empowered-superhuman-design-engineer-w-milan-kocic#t=34) Introduction and Sixth Sense Accelerator Overview
- [4:46](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-manufacturing-executive/2023-09-05-the-ai-empowered-superhuman-design-engineer-w-milan-kocic#t=286) GelSight and Tactile Robotics
- [7:46](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-manufacturing-executive/2023-09-05-the-ai-empowered-superhuman-design-engineer-w-milan-kocic#t=466) Workforce Shortages and Manufacturing Perception
- [17:11](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-manufacturing-executive/2023-09-05-the-ai-empowered-superhuman-design-engineer-w-milan-kocic#t=1031) Generative AI in Design Engineering
- [21:27](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-manufacturing-executive/2023-09-05-the-ai-empowered-superhuman-design-engineer-w-milan-kocic#t=1287) Future of AI and Legacy Equipment

## Topics

- [AI & machine learning](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/ai-and-machine-learning)
- [Hiring & workforce](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/hiring-and-workforce)
- [Robotics & autonomy](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/robotics-and-autonomy)
- [Scaling production](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/scaling-production)

## Most relevant to

large enterprises

## Mentioned

- Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence (company)
- Sixth Sense (product)
- GelSight (company)
- Rafinex (company)
- Caster (company)
- NQ (company)
- Gorilla 76 (company)

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