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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

Designed, Molded, & Delivered
This week: design of a part is in mold (paid), quest for better boxes, sneaker upper spray on, software into sales advantage, forecasting foundational…
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David Rogers
Automate In Your Backyard
This week: Automate 2025 debuts and AI agents (paid), ADAR, 3D printed houses, self-healing glass, LMR battery tech, FIAT 500 hybrid commission…
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David Rogers
How the AI Opportunity in Additive is for Parts That Were Never Meant to Be Printed
Identification of candidates for 3D printing among legacy parts is an underappreciated challenge. AI reveals the extent of parts in service warehouses…
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Peter Zelinski
Capitalizing on the Industrial Autonomy Boom
This week: Automate 2025 plan (paid), $600B autonomous freight market, additive for waterways, multimodal AI robots with a sense of touch, machine…
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David Rogers
Resilience in an Era of Trade Uncertainty
Production Planning Issue #1 - An exclusive quarterly issue on critical technologies and their real-world impact. In this issue, we cover tariff…
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David Rogers
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