Weekly Digest

Where Does Autonomy Go Off-Road?

This week: Autonomous ride-sharing and factories for assembly, teardown of Zmotor linear actuator, solar, nuclear, and levelized cost of energy…

Nov 1 • David Rogers

You Can Build Everything?

But should you? This week: solid oxide fuel cells, geothermal cracks, AI automation pyramid, eFuels and e-SAF, humanoid home robots, plant…

Oct 25 • David Rogers

Hansei-kai Reindustrialization

This week: Oil & GPU decline curves, chicken farmer CNC, industrial capacity gluts, Form Studio 1, USD BRep, chemistry-native AI, rapid-turnaround…

Oct 18 • David Rogers

Shop Owners Aren’t Dumb

This week: Shop automation ruse, Nox Metals factory tour, American baijiu dinner, best time to build, Die Casting Congress field report, AWS Physical AI…

Oct 11 • David Rogers

Autonomous Machines Can Execute 74% of Physical Job Tasks

This week: AI engineering, 3D printing rocket fuel, Michigan manufacturing, robot work economics, machine health history, starship launch, accelerated…

Oct 4 • David Rogers

Manufacturers Staying Stable Under Friction

This week: Carbon-ceramic brake discs, advanced manufacturing drones, empirical π0.5 AI assembly, Project Suncatcher and Blue Origin launches, Bambu Lab…

Sep 27 • David Rogers

Half a Billion Manufacturing Technology Orders

This week: IMTS 2026 roundup, machine vision no longer reboots, agentic robotics harness, Unitree G1 actuator teardown, UR Gen 7, liquid polymer resin…

Sep 20 • David Rogers

When AI Models Build Their Own Supercomputers

This week: Skild Brain builds NVIDIA Blackwell, Shinkei automates ike jime, synthetic Mine of the Future, XPENG Robotics Production Line, Prufrock…

Sep 13 • David Rogers

The Battery Gold Mine

This week: 🤗 robot rucks, 200+ million fully autonomous miles, rare-earth grip, battery gold mine, Elon’s turbine-blade factories, probabilistic…

Sep 6 • David Rogers

Actuators, Agents, and Orbit

This week: Megapack at scale, Unitree G1 knee actuator, embodied harnesses, Model Hardware Standard, generative shelf brackets, data centers in space…

Aug 30 • David Rogers

Supersonic Aviation AI Buildout

This week: Supersonic RC drone, CAD-as-code, GEN-1.5 zero-shot physical generalization, humanoid robots mass market, battery-electric aircraft first…

Aug 23 • David Rogers

We Work at Fords

This week: Ford heritage and Fathom EV, AI infrastructure race, melting diamond triple fusion, satellite lightweighting, Abhastra ARK using…

Aug 16 • David Rogers

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