Factory Signal Briefing — May 29, 2026
Advanced Manufacturing · 3D Printing · CNC · Robotics · AI Vision
News
A Fume-Control Cabinet for Resin 3D Printing
For a certain kind of intricate, highly-detailed manufacturing, there’s really no substitute for a resin 3D printer, and it’s therefore unfortunate that they require so many poisonous…
AM highlights from the high-performance automotive sector
While the use of additive manufacturing is evolving and expanding at every level in the automotive industry, particularly behind-the-scenes for prototyping and tooling applications, we want…
Chinese Patent Targets Combined 3D Printer Plotter
A newly published Chinese patent application describes a machine that can switch between FFF 3D printing and pen-based writing or drawing without manual toolhead replacement.
Mastrex launches MX300 laser powder bed fusion system
Mastrex has launched the MX300, an industrial laser powder bed fusion metal 3D printer priced at $185,000. The system features a 300 x 300 x 350 mm build volume and …
Fully 3D printed book is made in a single printing sequence
Designers Darius Ou and Benson Chong have produced a book fabricated entirely from a single 3D-printing sequence, with no manual assembly or post-print finishing, making it one of the more …
Software becoming the biggest bottleneck to physical AI innovation, finds QNX research
As robots enter more unconstrained environments, software and security are becoming higher priorities, a QNX survey found.
Atum3D and AMSYSTEMS Merge to Form Atum Systems
A small corporate merger in the 3D print world took place this week.
Amazon kills internal AI leaderboard after employees gamed it with pointless tasks
Amazon is pulling an internal AI ranking system, the Financial Times reports, after employees inflated their scores through meaningless AI usage and driving up the company's cloud costs in…
Google fixes several bugs in Gemini usage limits that burned through quotas too fast
A bug in Google's Gemini app caused just one or two Omni videos to eat up the entire usage quota. Google has fixed the bug, Ultra members now get twice as many video generations, and failed…
New review paper argues code is how AI agents think and act, not just what they produce
A new review paper argues that the real bottleneck for autonomous AI agents isn't the language model itself but the software layer wrapped around it. Tools, memory, testing, and permission…
Norsk Titanium lands first production contract with Northrop Grumman
Norsk Titanium has secured a recurring production contract with Northrop Grumman for structural aircraft components, marking the first formal production award between the two companies…
A Fume-Control Cabinet for Resin 3D Printing
For a certain kind of intricate, highly-detailed manufacturing, there’s really no substitute for a resin 3D printer, and it’s therefore unfortunate that they require so many poisonous…
AM highlights from the high-performance automotive sector
While the use of additive manufacturing is evolving and expanding at every level in the automotive industry, particularly behind-the-scenes for prototyping and tooling applications, we want…
Chinese Patent Targets Combined 3D Printer Plotter
A newly published Chinese patent application describes a machine that can switch between FFF 3D printing and pen-based writing or drawing without manual toolhead replacement.
Mastrex launches MX300 laser powder bed fusion system
Mastrex has launched the MX300, an industrial laser powder bed fusion metal 3D printer priced at $185,000. The system features a 300 x 300 x 350 mm build volume and …
Fully 3D printed book is made in a single printing sequence
Designers Darius Ou and Benson Chong have produced a book fabricated entirely from a single 3D-printing sequence, with no manual assembly or post-print finishing, making it one of the more …
Software becoming the biggest bottleneck to physical AI innovation, finds QNX research
As robots enter more unconstrained environments, software and security are becoming higher priorities, a QNX survey found.
Atum3D and AMSYSTEMS Merge to Form Atum Systems
A small corporate merger in the 3D print world took place this week.
Amazon kills internal AI leaderboard after employees gamed it with pointless tasks
Amazon is pulling an internal AI ranking system, the Financial Times reports, after employees inflated their scores through meaningless AI usage and driving up the company's cloud costs in…
Google fixes several bugs in Gemini usage limits that burned through quotas too fast
A bug in Google's Gemini app caused just one or two Omni videos to eat up the entire usage quota. Google has fixed the bug, Ultra members now get twice as many video generations, and failed…
New review paper argues code is how AI agents think and act, not just what they produce
A new review paper argues that the real bottleneck for autonomous AI agents isn't the language model itself but the software layer wrapped around it. Tools, memory, testing, and permission…
Norsk Titanium lands first production contract with Northrop Grumman
Norsk Titanium has secured a recurring production contract with Northrop Grumman for structural aircraft components, marking the first formal production award between the two companies…