Factory Signal Briefing — May 11, 2026
Advanced Manufacturing · 3D Printing · CNC · Robotics · AI Vision
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Joris Laarman’s 3D printed SYMBIO benches exhibited in NYC
Dutch artist Joris Laarman is no stranger to us. Focused on the intersection of craftsmanship and technology, Laarman has often used additive manufacturing as a tool to bring his visions …
Computer Vision And ML Defect Detection In Concrete AM
A new research review looks at how computer vision and machine learning could be used to spot defects in 3D printed concrete.
Interspectral joins Vinnova-backed TRUSTAM consortium to bring federated AI to additive manufacturing quality control
Swedish provider of AI-driven process monitoring and quality assurance software for additive manufacturing technologies Interspectral has joined a publicly funded Swedish research consortium…
3DPets and Creality bring customized prosthetics to pets
There is significant coverage of how 3D printing is used to produce custom-fit prosthetic devices for humans, but there is a whole other user segment for prosthetics that is less …
Bambu Lab Launches Food Safe Filament … In China
Bambu Lab announced the availability of a line of food-safe 3D printer filament materials.
Generative AI turns identity theft into an industrial-scale operation
A Bloomberg investigation shows how generative AI and autonomous agents are supercharging identity theft in the US, from social security number lookups on the darknet to deepfake driver's…
Harvard researchers print artificial muscle-like filaments that bend and twist on demand
Researchers at Harvard University’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have produced 3D printed filaments that are capable of bending, twisting, expanding, or…
RLWRLD releases RLDX-1, a dexterity-first foundation model for robot hands
RLWRLD said with RLDX-1, it aimed to include things like context memorization or force sensing, which existing models often lack.
Setting up an LLM model on your own computer #AdafruitPlayground #FeaturedNote @Adafruit
Many of us have been there: working with Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, etc. and BOOM, the token allowance runs out and you have to wait a few hours for it to reset. All you want to do is finish…
University of Sydney team releases 3D printable open-source electrochemical reactor
Researchers from the University of Sydney and the ARC Center of Excellence for Carbon Science and Innovation have published a fully open-source, 3D printable gas diffusion electrode (GDE)…
Want Driving Simulator Feedback? Make The Robot Do It
Humanoid robots are a thing now, and here’s an interesting research project that explores using one as a form of haptic media. Specifically, using a humanoid robot to move a …read more
60fps video on a CGA display? Yes, using the GlyphBlaster
GloriousCow on Blogger writes about 1980s IBM PC CGA graphics: There’s a certain genre of retro-hardware hack that everyone recognizes is technically cheating, but has a certain…
I love how even industrial grade 3d printers (people not machines) are essentially the same creatures. Also how do I get rid of those print lines?
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https://v.redd.it/t8eunhloph0h1
I though the Struggle was finally over.
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I love you Shapr3D , but i don't love you enough for $250 a year Guess its back to trying desperately to understand Fusion again.
I know you guys wanted to see the finished dragon so here it is.
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Printed in solid CoCr using a Chamlion NCL-M150 SLM Printer.
Aldi UK
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Only thing I could see, not much cheaper than the other stuff in the centre isle.
Small weekend side project
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Had some fun with a small mini project this weekend. Projects like these are the reason I love 3D printing. Having something go from broken to fixed in just a few hours without much…
ABS supports are a thing...
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This is my first post in this community and, since I saw that memes are only allowed on Mondays, I created this one yesterday for Instagram (3D\_Kernel) because making ABS supports is so…
I Built Disney’s BD-X Star Wars Robot
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Over the past year, I’ve been recreating Disney’s BD-X Star Wars Robot :) it’s hard itself to walk using reinforcement learning in mjlab and then was able to walk in the real world. I…
When I was told the party would be Stranger Things-themed the night before it started, 7 hours of printing and an hour and a half of painting...
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https://v.redd.it/ducy1t3flj0h1