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Into the Wild Factory Floor
This week: industrial production from Alaska to Outer Space, environmental challenges with PFAS, AI reconstruction of the scientific process, LSTM in…
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David Rogers
Chemically Stable Operating Footprint
This week: Chemical industry action plans, dark factories, competing with China, AI predicts manufacturing outcomes, robots learning from demonstration…
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David Rogers
Foundational Industrial Minerals & Materials
This week: critical battery metals locally with no waste, electro-active parts by extrusion-based 3D printing, plant biofoundry, methane pyrolysis, and…
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David Rogers
Automation Leading with Consumer Markets
This week: Founder Mode for Industrial AI (paid), metal powder sintering, challenge the technology-first mentality, smart order execution, engineering…
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David Rogers

June 2025

The AI Cattle Call for Materials
This week: AI runs a physical shop (paid), manufacture with mycelium, right-sized packaging, open-source exoskeleton, autonomous delivery of a car…
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David Rogers
Reasoning through Machine Codes
This week: Industrial sectors revolutionized by AI (paid), agentic AI reasoners, robotaxi production launches, battery handling, stable electrochemical…
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David Rogers
Physical AI Secrets (Spoiler: It's Already Here)
This week: Patent or trade secret (paid), CAM software, additive glocal mass customization, robot chemistry, real-time VLAs, evolutionary binary…
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David Rogers
Decentralized Energy and Production Networks
This week: 321 de minimis countermeasures (paid), decentralized energy grid plan, building general-purpose humanoid robots, time series databases…
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David Rogers
3D Printing, AI, Robots, and the Meaning of Their Venn Diagram Overlaps
Manufacturing today is a system of separately proven elements operating together. A different mode of manufacturing tomorrow brings these digital…
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Peter Zelinski
Mission Possible: Rise of Agent Machines
This week: robotics data scarcity opportunity (paid), materials innovation, construction equipment factory tour, fluidic soft systems, precision ag with…
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David Rogers

May 2025

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