Weekly Digest

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

Yaw-Roll-Roll-Yaw-Roll-Yaw into the Holidays

This week: 2025 holiday gift guide, Polaris & LG factory tours, 3D Printed EOAT, Toyota GR GT chassis teardown, injection moulding molds, nuclear cold…

Dec 7, 2025 • David Rogers

All We Can Do Is Watch How It's Made

This week: industrial technology transfer, cobots, fast industrial AI deployment, logistics AI, aluminium 3D printing, humanoid fatigue, AI video…

Nov 30, 2025 • David Rogers

Learn from Experience: The Manufacturing Way

This week: More productive spaces, Robotic foundation models, 3D-printed titanium, Shale 4.0, recycling tech, 3D reconstructions and Mesh code…

Nov 23, 2025 • David Rogers

Speeding up Material Movement Across "Zero Distance"

This week: GE Appliances’ “zero distance” approach, OPPO’s flagship smartphone factory, evolution of AI in engineering, injection molding chat…

Nov 16, 2025 • David Rogers

Reciprocating Perspectives on Manufacturing Technology

This week: Hyundai Metaplant, Real-World AI for Manufacturing, AI-Powered Pallet Jack, titanium idiot index, heating up electron transfer reactions…

Nov 9, 2025 • David Rogers

Heavy Press for Domestic Manufacturing

This week: vibe coding manufacturing apps (paid), heavy press program, novel lithography and EUV masks, autonomous control AI agents for acid gas…

Nov 2, 2025 • David Rogers

#nojs-banner { position: fixed; bottom: 0; left: 0; padding: 16px 16px 16px 32px; width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; background: red; color: white; font-family: -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px; } #nojs-banner a { color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; } This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please turn on JavaScript or unblock scripts