Weekly Digest

Go for the Race, Stay for the Bionics 🦿

This week: Humanoids run a marathon, a bionic arm can crawl around on its own, faster Injection molding with a 3D-printed mold, flexible job-shop…

Apr 20 •

White-knuckle Microfactories

This week: Robocraftsman hit a bridge, autonomous mobile robots value, white bone programs, low-cost mini fabs, rare earths production, world’s largest…

Apr 13 •

Tackling Tariffs with Industrial Technology

This week: Hannover Messe 2025 live brief, USA levies 10% tariffs, metal shaping with AI and robotics, finger structure auto plants, low-cost…

Apr 6 •

Read Between the Machines

This week: verbal flubs, natural humanoid walk, podcast in a clean room, speciality chemicals renaissance, CNC AI agents, wiring harness automation…

Mar 30 •

Endless Energy for Physical AI

This week: Hanover geothermal and Messe meetup, power-limited industry, operating at scale advantages, synthetic data for engineering, mapping thousands…

Mar 23 •

Henry Ford Moment for Solar

This week: Portable factories, optimizing green hydrogen, conformal cooling, toolpaths for common molds, Gemini Robotics, BotQ, machine health, ammonia…

Mar 16 •

Factory Sounds Slosh No More

This week: Sound waves to distribute light for no-downtime drilling, anti-sloshing paint container filling, pseudo-bonds in composite materials, instant…

Mar 9 •

Open Value Chains Create Industrial Efficiency

This week: Open Process Automation, Open Source Battery Report 2024, and Open AI Inference System reduce costs and foster innovation; Tesla paints a…

Mar 2 •

The Pulse of Manufacturing Life

This week: your life is manufactured, carbon free aluminum smelting, dancing humanoids swarm, can you hear me on the moon, electronic polymers, GenAI…

Feb 23 •

Time Scaling Industrial Attraction 💓

This week: inference-time scaling reasoning AI, ERP becomes core to AI strategy, world's biggest crane ship, rare-earth magnets, humanoids raise funds…

Feb 16 •

Industrial AI Makes Good Time-Series

This week: Newlab's impact, seeking 'Deep Research' for cheap, mpGEMM for Edge LLMs, human-in-the-loop rapid commissioning, large format hybrid…

Feb 9 •

Supersonic Fiber Placement

This week: supplier opportunism, breaking the sound barrier, DeepSeek at the edge, mattress recycling, robot hands with high dexterity, AI-powered…

Feb 2 •

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