Weekly Digest

Into the Wild Factory Floor

This week: industrial production from Alaska to Outer Space, environmental challenges with PFAS, AI reconstruction of the scientific process, LSTM in…

Jul 27 •

Chemically Stable Operating Footprint

This week: Chemical industry action plans, dark factories, competing with China, AI predicts manufacturing outcomes, robots learning from demonstration…

Jul 20 •

Foundational Industrial Minerals & Materials

This week: critical battery metals locally with no waste, electro-active parts by extrusion-based 3D printing, plant biofoundry, methane pyrolysis, and…

Jul 13 •

Automation Leading with Consumer Markets

This week: Founder Mode for Industrial AI (paid), metal powder sintering, challenge the technology-first mentality, smart order execution, engineering…

Jul 6 •

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 •

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