Weekly Digest

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…

Jun 29 •

Reasoning through Machine Codes

This week: Industrial sectors revolutionized by AI (paid), agentic AI reasoners, robotaxi production launches, battery handling, stable electrochemical…

Jun 22 •

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…

Jun 15 •

Decentralized Energy and Production Networks

This week: 321 de minimis countermeasures (paid), decentralized energy grid plan, building general-purpose humanoid robots, time series databases…

Jun 8 •

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…

Jun 1 •

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…

May 25 •

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…

May 18 •

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…

May 11 •

Progressive Exploration for Industrial Discovery

This week: six traits to founder success, additive tipping point, new geothermal drills, biodegradable sneakers, enhanced rock weathering, PINNs for…

May 4

One Good Part Manufacture to the Next

This week: engineering careers, circular waste, AI to find the right parts, fully automated mould changeover, iPhones in India, Slate Auto reveal…

Apr 27 •

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 •

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