Factory Signal Briefing — May 07, 2026
Advanced Manufacturing · 3D Printing · CNC · Robotics · AI Vision
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Hands on with the Elegoo Jupiter 2 3D Printer, Part 2
Our review of the Elegoo Jupiter 2 resin 3D printer continues with setup, calibration, and software. This is part two of a four part series, please read parts one, three and four. Elegoo…
Carbon partners with DDK for 3D printed saddle production in Asia
Carbon has named DDK Group as its first Tier 1 contract manufacturer for 3D printed saddles in Asia, consolidating additive manufacturing of latticed saddles and final assembly within a…
Massachusetts startup launches ‘largest robot data factory in the US’
Manufacturing Dive recently visited Tutor Intelligence's new headquarters in Watertown, where the firm is seeing growing demand for its autonomous robots.
Brightpick to outline the path to lights-out warehouses at Robotics Summit
Jan Zizka, co-founder and CEO of Brightpick, will outline a practical roadmap to more autonomous warehouse operations. The post Brightpick to outline the path to lights-out warehouses at…
On-Demand Webinar on Deploying Computer Vision and LLMs at the Edge
Check out this recent webinar from Boston.AI “Reality Check: Deploying Computer Vision and LLMs at the Edge” From the event page: AI workloads are moving closer to where data is generated —…
New understanding of insect flight points way to stable flapping-wing robots
By David Nutt The way bugs and birds flap their wings may look effortless, but the dynamics that keep them aloft are dizzyingly complex and difficult to quantify. Cornell researchers created…
Podcast: Colin Angle discusses building companion robots with Familiar Machines & Magic
iRobot co-founder Colin Angle talks about his latest venture, creating next-gen social robots with Familiar Machines. The post Podcast: Colin Angle discusses building companion robots with…
Mira Murati’s deposition pulled back the curtain on Sam Altman’s ouster
The week leading up to Thanksgiving 2023 was the AI industry's biggest soap opera moment. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was abruptly ousted from his role at the ChatGPT maker. The explanation? That…
Making electronics with TSCircuit via Codex, without KiCad/Altium/Eagle
Seve Ibarluzea is the founder of tscircuit.com. tscircuit is an open-source React/Typescript electronics toolchain and ecosystem for creating, previewing, simulating and manufacturing…
OpenAI's new voice model brings GPT-5-level reasoning to real-time conversations
OpenAI is shipping three new voice models—GPT-Realtime-2, GPT-Realtime-Translate, and GPT-Realtime-Whisper—that can reason in real time, translate across 70+ languages, and transcribe live…
What’s next for IVF
MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. Forty-eight years ago…
Three-storey apartment building marks "important milestone" in 3D printing for construction
A apartment block has been constructed in France using COBOD International 's concrete 3D printing technology, three months faster than conventional building methods…
I can’t tell if this is a dumb or amazing use of my resin printer
Score 88 · 45 comments
I can’t beleive I never thought to use my resin 3D printer cleanup exposure to make perfect little sheets of resin for projects 🤯 the post processing is a little annoying but otherwise it’s…
AI-Powered Logo & Watermark Detection Suite
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🛡️ Built an AI-powered Logo & Watermark Detection System using YOLOv8 + Streamlit I’ve been experimenting with computer vision pipelines recently and built a project called VisionGuard…
Diffusion for generating/editing ASTs? [D]
Score 1 · 8 comments
I’m not a machine learning expert or anything, but I do enjoy learning about how it all works. I’ve noticed that one of the main limitations of LLMs for generating code is that their input…
Anyone else have an atrocious hiring process at polaris manufacturing?
Score 10 · 21 comments
After working really hard to get into the hiring process at polaris i went to a nine hour unpaid training and tour of the factory. They did all the usual, drug tests, training, tours, all…
Lean manufacturing & gut feeling
Score 40 · 34 comments
My Plant's been adopting Lean Manufacturing/Six-Sigma principles and we've made good progress so far. Engagement is up, health & safety culture has drastically improved, the effects of…
I learned robot programming on this Cincinnati Milacron T3 in 1984
Score 109 · 8 comments
Hydraulic power pack is in a soundproofed enclosure next door. Approximately 100 kilo lifting force. My instructor shown for scale. The red railing is to keep students alive. The tool…
Failed a Robotics Interview, Here’s What They Asked
Score 551 · 34 comments
Recently had a technical interview with **Peer Robotics** for a robotics engineering role. Sharing the structure in case it helps others preparing for AMR / mobile robotics interviews. My…
3018 max with an additional 3rd linear rod
Score 10 · 1 comments
The rods on my 3018 max were 11.9mm instead of 12, and because of that it had a 3-4 mm play on z axis. As a temporary solution tried to fit a 10mm rod from my 3d printer that I converted to…
Assembling my first CNC Gantry machine - Advice
Score 2 · 1 comments
Hi, I just received my CNC gantry machine disassembled and I’m now trying to assemble it and understand how to get it work. For info, I have been working in embedded software and hardware…
PyTorch reproduction of TensorFlow paper underperforms by 4 pp on DermaMNIST , what cross-framework issues should I check? [R]
Score 4 · 11 comments
I'm reproducing a published paper's hybrid Gabor + CNN architecture in PyTorch. The original implementation is in TensorFlow. My reproduction consistently lands \~4 pp below the paper's…