Weekly Digest

Cards Against AI-driven Factories

This week: Apple made in the USA, Tesla Cybercab paintless panels, scaling Industrial AI, automation write down, physical AI order packaging…

Mar 1 • David Rogers

Clinging On to an Industrial Policy Punch

This week: EI's mission, super steels, rebuilding American manufacturing, maturity of 60+ digital industrial technologies, DTCS, Onshape's Model Based…

Feb 22 • David Rogers

Sweeping Innovation Bothers Industrial Incumbents

This week: hard tech competitions and seed funding, Starship testing, dry electrodes, open source hardware, 3D print Tungsten carbide–cobalt, injection…

Feb 15 • David Rogers

No-Huddle Manufacturing Drive

This week: BMW i5 and i3 factory, induction stove, GPT-5-driven autonomous lab, Waymo World Model, autonomous logistics, alignment-free wireless power.

Feb 8 • David Rogers

Molt-en Liquid Distortions

This week: AI Grand Prix, Fiber-Optic Cables, automation AI sensors, hidden air leaks, MCP for industrial AI agents, autonomous moldmaking, rare earths…

Feb 1 • David Rogers

The Machine-breaking Disturbances Rocking Assembly

This week: Enter the lab of π, Cadillac F1, and Nothing; bauxite mining and construction, quantum manufacturing challenge, large-format 3D printing ROI…

Jan 25 • David Rogers

Paint "The Part" Red

This week: SendCutSend machines "The Part", Tool and Die AI, Auto Shows off Paint Shop, AI agents in Factory Operations, Software-Defined Automation

Jan 18 • David Rogers

Tolerate Lower Profits while Cultivating a Large Workforce (of Humanoids)

This week: Additive business strategy, Autos dreaming of rockets, Intelligent Island Manufacturing System, CES 2026 delivers, solid state batteries…

Jan 11 • David Rogers

Three Pulses for Excessive Miniaturization

This week: Innovation happens on shop floors, DISCOVERing hydrogen engine design, story of ASML, Teleoperation-as-a-Service, Scan-to-CAD, mobile welding…

Jan 4 • David Rogers

Turn Around, Bright Eyes: Double-Digit Industrial Growth in 12-18 Months

This week: 2026 industrial tech conferences, low-cost humanoids, multimodal GenAI root cause analysis, automotive turnaround, recycling robots, agentic…

Dec 28, 2025 • David Rogers

The Wealthiest is the Industrialist

This week: vertical integration, Musk pay package, start-up to scale-up, developing automation products from scratch, MagNEO, train-free machine vision…

Dec 21, 2025 • David Rogers

5,127 Failed Prototypes and a Cartridge in a Gear Tree

This week: Dyson's failed prototypes, 2D Images into G-code for Additive, street sweeper manufacturing dark factories, Waymo foundation model, grocery…

Dec 14, 2025 • David Rogers

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