Lucas Marques

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Lucas Marques is a leading voice in the future of distributed manufacturing, pioneering the paradigm of **swarm manufacturing**. His research fundamentally reimagines production by architecting systems where fleets of mobile robots cooperate to build products, moving beyond single-machine additive manufacturing. Marques’s core contribution is the development of **cooperative 3D printing (C3DP)** , a novel approach where multiple mobile printers work in concert. At the heart of this system is his innovative **chunk-based printing strategy**, which intelligently splits a desired part into smaller, printable segments that can be fabricated simultaneously by a robot swarm. His seminal 2022 paper, “Toward Swarm Manufacturing,” has garnered **30 citations**, establishing the foundational architecture for this emerging field. By shifting the focus from isolated printers to collaborative, factory-wide robot armies, Marques is enabling a new era of local, agile supply chains. His work directly addresses the scalability and speed limitations of traditional 3D printing, offering a compelling vision for how future factories will manufacture complex products through distributed, cooperative intelligence.