Plugging in AI Agent Factories

This week: Electricity demand and grid impacts of AI data centers (paid), manufacturing month, multi-modal robot learning the robobusiness, quest for a…

Oct 5 • 

David Rogers

2

September 2025

Distributed Small AI Factory Towns

This week: Hard-Tech Wind-Down (paid), peer-to-peer manufacturing marketplaces, growing diamonds, real-time inventory visibility, AI agents into the…

Sep 28 • 

David Rogers

1

Cookie Cutter Physical AI

This week: predictive maintenance ROI (paid), train a whole-body control foundation model, cardboard boxpocalypse, dry electrode printing, generative…

Sep 21 • 

David Rogers

3

The Entropy of the Shop Floor

This week: napkin math on shop multiples (paid), self-improvement flywheel for general-purpose robots if we can solve the hand, minimize energy…

Sep 14 • 

David Rogers

5

Inside the Best of Us Manufacturing

This week: industrial funding models (paid), K.I.S.S, America's Best, EV price wars, robotaxi value chains, titanium business model, native ERP AI…

Sep 7 • 

David Rogers

5

August 2025

Brick by Brick AI Assembly

This week: platform economics (paid), AI + human systems, building cars with agentic AI, DHL’s AI upgrade, new dataset for 3D printing quality, battery…

Aug 31 • 

David Rogers

3

The Systems That Make or Break Manufacturing

This week: Scaling assembly manufacturing, 3D Print Injection Molds, Cheap Fast Chips in the USA, CFD with Modular Surrogates, Snapmaker U1, Robotaxi…

Aug 24 • 

David Rogers

9

No Fatigue in Industrial AI Agents

This week: AI agents sequence machine processes, create fatigue models, embody intelligent humanoids, and copilot CNC machines. Manufacturing history…

Aug 17 • 

David Rogers

6

Real-Time Measurement for Smarter Manufacturing Substitutions

This week: Raw metal to road-ready every 67 seconds, 50 Years of DCS, sole manufacturing focus, chronoamperometry and SensorLM, WAIC 2025 review, and…

Aug 10 • 

David Rogers

11

Raw Workflow to Finished Good

This week: Alaska fish processing, AI in AM into CAD, virtual prototyping of AI-as-a-Service, classification of manufacturing processes and finished…

Aug 3 • 

David Rogers

1

July 2025

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…

Jul 27 • 

David Rogers

3

Chemically Stable Operating Footprint

This week: Chemical industry action plans, dark factories, competing with China, AI predicts manufacturing outcomes, robots learning from demonstration…

Jul 20 • 

David Rogers