Why robotic arms are now being integrated with CNC machines
Robotic CNC machine tending is becoming more flexible as leading suppliers bring new software and integration to industry.
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Modern Graphics Via DisplayLink For Your ISA-Era PC
The monitors used on older computers are now becoming difficult to find, as we doubt anything for MDA, CGA, Hercules, or EGA has been manufactured in…
Ottobock brings 3D printed silicone liner to market with iconiq
Ottobock, an orthopedic technology company, has introduced iconiq, its first 3D printed silicone liner for leg prosthesis users, following a German…
The Final Steps to a Sub-Minute Benchy
In 2024, [Jan Roetz] decided to see whether he could 3D print a Benchy – the boat-shaped benchmarking tool used in 3D printer calibration – in less…
Who’s The Biggest In 3D Printing, May 31, 2026
Once again we take a look at the valuations of the major 3D printing companies over the past week.
AI search agents often confirm what they already know instead of actually researching the web
Leading AI search agents like GPT-5.4 and Kimi K2.6 don't appear to do much actual research on established benchmarks. They mostly just use the web to…
Anthropic bans AI tools during job interviews to see how candidates actually think
Anthropic bans AI during job interviews and runs candidates through up to five rounds testing skills, values, and ethical thinking. Salaries go up to…
Anthropic study finds men use AI coding agents more than twice as often as women in social science research
Researchers with typically male names use coding agents more than twice as often as those with typically female names, even within the same discipline…
Ask AI what goes with chicken and the answer depends on whether it learned from recipes or molecules
With "Epicure," London-based startup Kaikaku.AI presents three AI models that are the first to clearly separate whether an ingredient fits a recipe or…
Ebike Display Uses Reflective LCD
Although LCD displays have been used in almost every type of consumer electronics display over the last two decades, many of these screens have a few…
SoftBank plans 75 billion euro AI data center buildout in France
SoftBank plans to build AI data centers with up to 5 gigawatts of capacity in France, the company's largest AI infrastructure investment in Europe, at…
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How do Israel-UAE 3D Printing Partnerships Drive Section 41 R&D Tax Credit Eligibility?
Charles R. Goulding and Aaron Rofe analyze how the strengthening Israel-UAE relationship is forging a strategic regional ecosystem centered on additive manufacturing and industrial supply…
Creality marks 12 years with KliTek launch and AI expansion
Twelve years after shipping its first desktop 3D printer, Creality has grown into a multi-category platform company with a presence spanning…
MISUMI Group invests $1B in Americas, global AI and digital manufacturing
MISUMI Americas combines MISUMI's precision components with Fictiv's digital manufacturing platform for an entire bill of materials.
Terence Tao argues AI could bring division of labor to math for the first time in history
Mathematician Terence Tao describes how AI could reshape math research by enabling division of labor for the first time. Until now, researchers had to…
Attackers abuse shared ChatGPT and Claude chats to spread malware
Attackers are exploiting the chat-sharing features in ChatGPT and Claude to spread malware through shared conversations. The chats mimic error…
Making AI chatbots helpful weakens their ability to simulate human behavior, large-scale study finds
A large-scale study covering 208,000 participants and 26 million responses shows that the very training that turns language models into helpful…
Meta's leaked memo reveals AI pendant, supersensing glasses, and enterprise wearables strategy
Meta has poured billions into AI with little commercial payoff so far. Its open-source strategy hasn't panned out, and research breakthroughs haven't…
Microsoft and Nvidia reportedly team up on AI PCs that run actual agents instead of Copilot
Nvidia is pushing into the PC market with its own chips as the main processor. The first Windows computers from Dell and Microsoft's Surface line are…
OpenAI's Codex can now operate your Windows PC autonomously, hunting bugs and testing apps on its own
OpenAI's Codex app now runs on Windows 11 with "Computer Use": the AI can independently control programs, test apps, and hunt for bugs. When no one's…
Salesforce claims AI agents cut a 231-day migration to 13 days with fewer incidents
Salesforce says it moved its entire dev org to Anthropic's Claude Code with no token limits and reports massive productivity gains for April 2026: 79…
Testing Various Ways to Waterproof FDM Printed Parts
Along with layer lines, FDM printers are notorious for being neither air- nor water-tight due to the countless very small gaps between the layers…
As the browser wars heat up, here are the hottest alternatives to Chrome and Safari in 2026
We’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari.
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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Grenzebach spins out Additive Manufacturing arm as standalone company
Grenzebach Group, the Germany-based industrial systems manufacturer, is restructuring its operations to carve out its Additive Manufacturing and Friction Stir Welding divisions into…
NTU 3D Prints Self-Sensing Soft Continuum Robot
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University have 3D printed sacrificial molds to create a self-sensing soft continuum robot that reconstructs its…
Polymesh and the New Geometry of Watchmaking in MING’s 3D Printed Titanium Strap
Charles R. Goulding and Nimra Shakoor spotlight how MING’s 3D printed titanium Polymesh strap leverages sub-70-micron additive manufacturing and…
Bring Back Your Bose with an ESP32
It’s become a familiar theme over the last couple of decades — hardware is rendered useless when its manufacturer pulls the cloud service on which it…
Building Codes and Regulation May Determine the Future Growth of 3D Printed Construction
Regulation may be the least fun part of 3D printed construction, but it determines whether 3DCP can move past demonstrations.
Canon Patent Targets Easier Inkjet Support Removal
Canon Production Printing has filed a European patent application for a different way to remove support material from UV inkjet 3D printed structures.
ETH Zurich students fire 3D printed copper detonation rocket engine
Students from the Aris Swiss student space initiative at ETH Zurich have produced stable detonation waves during ground testing of a Rotating…
The evolution of cobots in metal fabrication and construction
Matt Bush, the co-founder and CEO of Hirebotics, talks about how cobots are becoming a necessity for manufacturers and welders.
Your guide to the last day of the 2026 Robotics Summit & Expo
The fun continues in Boston for the second day of the Robotics Summit & Expo, which includes the Women in Robotics breakfast and more.
The internet is being rebuilt for machines
As AI agents move from experiments to production, AWS, Cloudflare, and others are redesigning cloud infrastructure for a future dominated by…
Amazon builds its own AI production platform and greenlights three AI animated series for Prime Video
Amazon MGM Studios and AWS are launching a "GenAI Creators' Fund" that gives filmmakers money and access to the in-house AI platform "Project Nara."…
Decathlon brand launches KIPNEXT 3D sneaker made using MJF
Nearly two decades ago, sporting goods retailer Decathlon created the Kiprun brand to drive innovation in running gear. Since then, the performance…
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AI Spending Surge Meets Industrial Reality: What It Means for Additive Manufacturing
Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi share insights from a recent Deloitte seminar, connecting today’s AI boom to tomorrow’s factory floor innovations.
AnyShape selected as industrial partner by Airbus for on Eurodrone program
Belgian metal additive manufacturing company AnyShape was selected as an industrial partner by Airbus Defence and Space for the Eurodrone program, a…
Containerized ARCEMY Metal Printer Deployed At Navy CoE
AML3D has installed its first portable, containerized ARCEMY metal 3D printing system at the US Navy’s Additive Manufacturing Centre of Excellence.
Researchers Propose AM Framework for Kaaba Kiswah Embroidery
A new research paper proposes a practical framework for using additive manufacturing in the sacred gold thread embroidery of the Kaaba’s Kiswah.
Xenia launches thermoplastic composite pellet range for large-scale additive manufacturing
Xenia, an Italian developer of carbon and glass fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites, has released a new line of pellet-based materials…
A guide to everything happening at the 2026 Robotics Summit & Expo
Over the next two days, the Robotics Summit & Expo will bring thousands of attendees and hundreds of exhibitors to Boston.
Allient to demonstrate advanced motion control systems at 2026 Robotics Summit & Expo
Allient will exhibit and demonstrate a range of its motion and control technologies at the Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston this week.
Bosch Patent Targets Hotter FFF Nozzle Control
Bosch has filed a German patent application for a 3D printer printhead with a heated ring around the nozzle.
Goodyear’s “Fast Is In Us” campaign puts 3D printed hypercar at the center
Goodyear launched its “Fast Is In Us” global marketing campaign on May 1, 2026, positioning its Eagle performance tire family as the choice for…
Hyperion Systems 3D prints 4.6m hull for ASTRA 460 USV
This week at the Indian Ocean Defence and Security Conference (IODS) in Perth, Australia, Hyperion Systems is making quite the splash. There, the…
IntBot and Certis Group partner to scale physical AI for enterprises across Singapore
Certis is collaborating with IntBot to add humanoids to its existing service robot offerings as the partners start to expand in Singapore.
ORNL develops real-time composite 3D printing error correction system
Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed an automated controller capable of detecting…
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Color 3D printing, from voxel-level jetting to sub-$500 filament extrusion
For most of additive manufacturing’s history, printing in full color meant accessing a short list of expensive, specialized systems. Attempts have been made to reduce the cost of color 3D …
Axtra3D: a unified, traceable workflow for polymer AM
Founded just five years ago, North Carolina-based Axtra3D has progressed rapidly in its mission of becoming a global, production-focused additive…
Simulation vs. digital twin: A strategic lens on virtual manufacturing
Digital twins and simulation provide distinct benefits for manufacturers designing and integrating systems including automation, explains Visual…
The thermal barrier holding back metal AM may finally have a solution
Before you print, find out if it’s worth it Aibuild, a software company serving the additive manufacturing industry, has just launched a tool called…
3D Printing Continues to Reshape Rocket Engine Design as Agnikul Tests New Engine
Yet another company has developed a fully 3D-printed rocket engine. This time it is Agnikul.
3D Printing Space Cadet Pinball Into the Real World
Unless you’ve managed to avoid touching a Windows computer until after the Windows XP era, it’s pretty good odds you’ve played Space Cadet Pinball…
Airtech and Evergreen Additive sign exclusive supply agreement for maritime LFAM
Airtech Advanced Materials Group and Evergreen Additive entered into an exclusive supply agreement on May 20, targeting LFAM applications in the…
EPFL team makes 70x efficiency gain in holographic volumetric 3D printing
Researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have developed a volumetric 3D printing platform that it claims is 70 times more…
The Growing Family Tree of Slic3r-Based Software
With the controversy over open-source 3D print slicing software continuing, I thought I’d check on the current state of these tools.
Youtube inventor 3D prints multi-purpose suitcase
Matty Benedetto, a Youtuber and self-made inventor who, in his words, “designs products to solve problems that don’t exist” has created a 3D printed…
AI models often give the right answers but point to the wrong sources
Leading AI models like GPT and Gemini routinely cite text passages in document analyses that don't actually support their answers. Even when the…
At the launch of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical, Anthropic co-founder says AI models show signs of introspection
Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah was invited to speak at the launch of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" and used the stage to…
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Creality goes public: a $177 million bet on the future of consumer 3D printing
A decade of growth, one long road to the IPO Shenzhen Creality 3D Technology, the world’s largest consumer 3D printing company by cumulative shipments, has officially launched its IPO on …
Fitasy brings single-shoe purchasing to its 3D printed footwear platform
Fitasy, an Indianapolis-based custom-fit footwear company, has updated its on-demand production platform to accept orders for individual shoes through…
Hadassah doctors rebuild and lengthen leg using 3D printed implants
Doctors at Hadassah Ein Kerem in Jerusalem have reconstructed a patient’s hip joint and femur using two custom 3D printed implants, after a rare…
Who’s The Biggest In 3D Printing, May 24, 2026
Once again we take a look at the valuations of the major 3D printing companies over the past week.
Anthropic may keep supplying Claude to the NSA despite being flagged as a supply chain risk by the Pentagon
Anthropic will likely keep supplying AI models to the NSA despite being labeled a "supply chain risk." Intelligence agencies lack Nvidia's latest…
ByteDance study finds that asking LMMs questions beats making it transcribe text for long document training
ByteDance Seed shows that a 7B model can answer questions on long, image-heavy documents more reliably than much larger models, even when documents…
Deepmind's Hassabis sees humanity "in the foothills of the singularity" while LeCun says current AI isn't intelligent
Yann LeCun says current AI systems aren't genuinely intelligent. Demis Hassabis thinks humanity is already "standing in the foothills of the…
Designing a Printable Cyclone Dust Separator for 99.95% Efficiency
Filtering sawdust out of an airflow is easy until you try to do it with cyclone separation, but the obvious appeal here is of course not spending a…
Researchers let Claude Code discover AI scaling algorithms that humans probably wouldn't have designed
Researchers from UMD, Google, Meta, and other institutions use AutoTTS to let a coding agent independently discover control algorithms for AI…
Sortera uses physical AI to double capacity in a Tennessee sorting facility
With the new facility, Sortera has increased its annual processing capacity to an estimated 240 million lbs.
Why you shouldn't leave model selection on default in Copilot, Gemini and other AI tools
When analyzing data, Microsoft Copilot invents country differences where none exist. Mathematician Adam Kucharski fed the tool identical datasets with…
I tried Amazon’s Bee wearable and am both intrigued and slightly creeped out
Like other AI wearables, Amazon's Bee offers an odd combination of convenience and privacy anxiety.
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T.GOLD expands to two annual editions in 2026, with increased focus on 3D printing
T.GOLD, the international trade show dedicated to machinery and technology for the jewelry and precious metals industry, returns to the Vicenzaoro exhibition center in Vicenza from September…
Alibaba's latest AI model ran autonomously for 35 hours to optimize code for its own custom chip
Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen3.7-Max, a proprietary model built for long-running autonomous agent tasks. It matches Claude Opus 4.6 on benchmarks…
SHINING 3D releases Inspect 2026 with modular workflow architecture
SHINING 3D has released Inspect 2026, an updated version of its 3D inspection software designed to give quality engineers and manufacturers greater…
Teeing-Off at the 90th Masters with 3D Printing: Bryson DeChambeau’s R&D Innovation
Charles R. Goulding and Aaron Rofe detail the technical experimentation required to bypass traditional forging and casting in favor of 3D printed…
The future of physical AI isn’t humanoid; it’s task-specific and cost-efficient
The vice president of physical AI at Hailo explains why the next wave of AI will run locally on specialized machines designed for real-world tasks.
Unitree GO-M8018-6 Motor Reverse Engineering
People seem to be rather into the Unitree Go2 quadruped robot, if only for the low price tag. But perhaps more interesting are the motors that propel…
USC team prints MRI coils for just $30 per unit
MRI coils — specialized antennas placed against the body to detect radiofrequency signals from tissue — currently cost between $10,000 and $50,000…
Water-cooling a 3D Printed Rocket Isn’t Quite Practical
Consumer-grade 3D printers are useful for lots of things, but they kind of fall down when it comes to making stuff that survives high temperatures…
Anthropic warns Claude Mythos Preview finds bugs faster than developers can patch them
Anthropic's AI model Claude Mythos Preview, working with about 50 partners as part of Project Glasswing, has found over 10,000 critical…
Google CEO Pichai now calls links a "part" of search, redefining the web's role in its own product
Google CEO Sundar Pichai now calls links and sources a "part" of search, when in reality, they're its foundation. The wording is deliberate: new…
One of the world's top law schools draws a hard line against AI in legal education
UC Berkeley Law will ban AI from nearly all graded work starting in summer 2026, from outlining and drafting to proofreading. Only research use…
Stormlight Spheres From Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive
In an earlier video, Myth Made shows how you can save money by making your own wireless LEDs. In this video, they put the cute little LEDs to use by…
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UltiMaker Launches Factor 4 Plus for Industrial Manufacturing
UltiMaker announced a new professional 3D printer, the UltiMaker Factor 4 Plus.
GE Vernova to acquire Robotech Automation to expand robotics integration
Energy company GE Vernova is already working with systems integrator Robotech on supply chain projects.
Injection Molding Your Own Rubik’s Cubes Takes Work
If you just want to play with a Rubik’s Cube, you can simply buy one from a local toy store. If you want to build one, you could 3D print …read more
Modal Analysis Of 3D Printed Layered Composite Beams
A new study maps how 3D printed layered composite beams behave under vibration and lists ways to tune stiffness and damping.
NEW PRODUCT – Snap-on Enclosure for Adafruit Terminal Block BFF Add-On
NEW PRODUCT – Snap-on Enclosure for Adafruit Terminal Block BFF Add-On _______________________________________________________________________________…
Researchers Successfully 3D Print Living Cornea
A report said that researchers have been able to successfully 3D print a living cornea.
Robotics Summit keynote to present open foundation for AI-powered robots
Brian Gerkey of Open Robotics will explain how the open-source community is ushering in the age of robots and AI at the Robotics Summit.
Lynxter and Igus Introduce Specialized 3D Printing Materials
Two interesting new 3D print materials appeared this week.
California governor signs first US executive order to protect workers from AI job loss
California's governor just signed the first executive order by a US governor aimed at protecting workers from AI-driven job loss. The article…
Cloudflare CEO Prince says builders and sellers are safe but AI is coming for the measurers
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince laid off more than 20 percent of the workforce despite record revenue, claiming AI is replacing middle management and…
Deepseek reportedly prioritizes AGI research over quick profits despite billions in funding
Deepseek is about to raise around $10 billion, which would value the Chinese AI startup at roughly $45 billion. Founder Liang Wenfeng is telling…
Electronics Projects to Make for Your Health
Could you ask for a better excuse to make something? There’s truly nothing quite like incorporating your favorite hobby into maintaining your health…
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NP Aerospace 3D prints 110 kg suspension for armored vehicle
UK-based NP Aerospace, a specialist in armor manufacturing and military vehicle integration, is no stranger to additive manufacturing. In fact, the company has taken an active role in the…
Printed Mini Arcade Machine – Bartop Retro Gaming Cabinet #3DPrinting #3DThursday
Archer shares: A compact bartop arcade machine for emulating NES/SNES/Genesis/MAME with a 4:3 screen, Sanwa joystick/buttons, customizable LED…
SHINING 3D launches OptimScan Q12 HD scanner
SHINING 3D has released the OptimScan Q12 HD, a high-precision 3D inspection scanner built for industrial metrology applications that demand detailed…
Soldering Cable Holder – Print in Place #3DPrinting #3DThursday
Robotobi shares: A print-in-place soldering cable holder with a clip-in spring mechanism for hands-free soldering. Tested with Bambu PLA, PETG, and…
Agnikul Cosmos fires cluster of four 3D printed semi-cryogenic engines
Agnikul Cosmos, a private Indian space transportation company founded by IIT Madras alumni, has carried out what it claims is the first cluster firing…
Ambient LED Lamp Magic Cubes RGB (WLED) #3DPrinting #3DThursday
BobSonicLab shares: A Wi-Fi-controlled RGB lamp built around the ESP32 Live Mini Kit and WLED, using WS2812 mini LEDs on a narrow strip. USB-C powered…
Apple Pocket Pi – Retro Handheld Games Console #3DPrinting #3DThursday
Applepie shares: A pocket-sized retro handheld built around the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W with a 2.4″ 320×240 SPI screen, 3000mAh battery, USB-C charging…
Dupont Jumper Wire Organizer – Gridfinity & Arduino Compatible #3DPrinting #3DThursday
Duckys3DStudio shares: A Gridfinity-compatible Dupont wire organizer with three dedicated sections (M-M, M-F, F-F), engraved labels, and integration…
Enclosure for Sunton ESP32-2432S028R #3DPrinting #3DThursday
mdkendall shares: A 3D-printed enclosure for the popular Sunton “Cheap Yellow Display” ESP32 board (2.8″ 320×240 touch screen), with an optional desk…
ESParto Cyberdeck – ESP32-Based Remote Control for RC Projects #3DPrinting #3DThursday
Jimbob shares: A handheld cyberdeck-style ESP32 controller designed for radio-controlled projects. Compact, portable, and customizable — great…
FANUC partners with Google to advance physical AI in its robots
Since FANUC released its physical AI system at IREX in Tokyo, customer interest has grown rapidly, and it is working with Google and NVIDIA.
Gridfinity Extended – OpenSCAD Customizer for Bins & Bases #3DPrinting #3DThursday
ostat shares: The most feature-rich OpenSCAD implementation of Gridfinity, generating customizable cups, bases, bins, and dividers directly in…
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America Makes and NCDMM name six suppliers in $1.7M allocation
America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) have named six companies as the first group of winners under the Joint Additive Qualification for…
Lynxter releases food-grade certified silicone for industrial 3D printing
French elastomer specialist Lynxter has released SIL-004, a liquid silicone formulated for direct 3D printing in food-processing environments, and…
Colossal Biosciences hatches 26 chicks in 3D printed artificial egg system
Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based bioscience, genetic engineering and “de-extinction” company, has successfully hatched 26 healthy chickens using a…
Google pairs its Genie world model with Street View to create explorable AI worlds based on real places
Google Deepmind connects its Genie 3 world model to Street View imagery: users drop a pin on a map and get a walkable, AI-generated world based on a…
Kings3D FGF technology powers 9-meter stage mech for China concert tour
A 9-meter-tall, 10.7-ton automated stage mech deployed on a major 2026 concert tour in China was produced using Kings3D‘s Fused Granulate Fabrication…
Kone’s Acquisition of TK Elevator: Private Equity Cashes Out as 3D Printing Gets a Lift
Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi explain how Kone’s blockbuster acquisition of TK Elevator delivers a major private equity payday while…
Rovex and Sphaira pioneer autonomous patient transport
Patient mobility in hospital settings is ripe for automation, with Rovex and Sphaira among the innovators taking different approaches.
The future of stereolithography, seen through innovations by Axtra 3D, Formlabs and 3D Systems
Stereolithography has been the defining resin-based 3D printing technology for four decades, but in recent years, a cluster of new light-engine…
Using 3D Printers To Make Circuit Boards
Custom printed circuit boards have become more and more accessible to the average hobbyist over the last decade. But one problem still remains: your…
Flashforge and Meshy Partnership Streamlines AI-Generated Multicolor 3D Printing Workflow
This is interesting: Meshy is partnering with Flashforge.
A compact cyberdeck with an ultrawide display
Hiro on Reddit posts a ultrawide display cyberdeck: This is my first cyberdeck. I’ve been working on it for around a month. It features a Nuphy Air60…
A Telegram bot that provides remote access to Claude Code
Claude Code Telegram Bot provides remote access to Claude Code. Chat naturally with Claude about your projects from anywhere — no terminal commands…
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Menlo Research’s Asimov humanoid kit puts 3D printed parts front and center
Singapore-based Menlo Research has built its Asimov humanoid robot kit around a manufacturing philosophy that sidesteps traditional CNC machining. The majority of the platform’s structural…
Formnext opens submissions for 2026 Awards program
Formnext has opened submissions for the Formnext Awards 2026, its annual recognition program for individuals, companies, and solutions in the additive…
3D Printing for All: Lessons from Hospitals That Built It From the Ground Up
Charles R. Goulding and Andressa Bonafe show why starting small, investing in people, and following clinical demand are the real drivers behind…
A Raspberry Pi AMA with a focus on industrial and embedded use
Be on Reddit next Thursday 21st May, 3–5pm BST to see Eben Upton (CEO), James Adams (CTO of Hardware Engineering), and Gordon Hollingworth (CTO of…
Agora-1 turns the N64 classic GoldenEye into a playable AI simulation for four players
Odyssey has released Agora-1, a world model that lets up to four players act simultaneously in an AI-generated world—tested on the N64 classic…
CeraShingle, a 3D printed ceramic cladding that plays with light
For those lamenting the lack of adornment and ornamentation on more modern architecture, 3D printing could be offering a solution. To this end, Studio…
Inside the Heathkit factory
Inside the Heathkit Factory: How a $39.50 Kit Built Michigan’s Empire…. Then Lost Everything. If you were tto walk into any electronics lab in the…
Mistral AI acquires Viennese physical AI startup Emmi AI
French AI company Mistral AI has acquired Vienna-based startup Emmi AI to expand its offering for industrial clients across Europe. The article…
Open Bionics fits first 3D printed full-length bionic arm
Praveen Gowtham, a 43-year-old physicist from New York, has become the first person in the world to be fitted with a full-length, 3D printed bionic…
Patent Targets Dual Material DLP Printing
Shanghai JIZHI Zongheng Technology has patented a compact approach to dual-material resin 3D printing.
Prusa Expands Into Aerospace Applications With New Space-Ready 3D Printing Material
Prusa Research has just released a new filament product designed for use in space.
Google’s Genie world model can now simulate real streets with Street View
Google DeepMind is integrating Street View with Project Genie to create immersive, interactive world simulations for robotics, gaming, and travel…
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3D Printed Ceramic Shingles: A New Application Area
A new facade concept using 3D printed ceramic shingles shows how additive manufacturing adds light control and geometric variety to one of the oldest building components.
The Technology Behind Tomorrow’s Industries: On Stage at AM Ceramics 2026
Ceramic additive manufacturing has quietly become indispensable across industrial sectors—from aerospace and semiconductor manufacturing to MedTech…
This Week in Security: Android Exposes ADB, ShinyHunters Get Paid, Robot Dogs, and More
Google has patched an Android ADB bug in the May security patch set. If you have a Pixel phone you should already have the patches, and most other…
Tvasta Differentiates Cedar 3D Printer With AI-Based Concrete Mix Optimization
I ran across yet another new concrete 3D printer manufacturer, this time in India. What’s going on here?
VoxelMatters Polymer AM Focus 2026 eBook
As spring progresses, we are turning our sights to a major segment of additive manufacturing: Polymer AM. Comprising hardware, materials, and…
Zellerfeld and Baron Davis’ OverDose brand launch 3D printed sneaker
3D printed footwear manufacturer Zellerfeld continues to expand its partnerships with notable celebrities and brands with the launch of its latest…
Fully Modular Tool Organizer System #3DPrinting #3DThursday
JesseZhang shares: A highly modular, screw-free tool holder system with mix-and-match horizontal panels, side panels of varying heights, and dedicated…
Futuristic Sci-Fi Drawer Organizer #3DPrinting #3DThursday
plaslinger shares: A precisely 3D-printed 200×100×100mm desk organizer with two spacious drawers wrapped in futuristic paneling. Keeps your bench tidy…
A hackable retro computer built on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (RP2350)
Japi Base — Jan’s Pico Projects Base is a well-documented, hackable retro computer built on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (RP2350). Japi Base provides all the…
A Stanford student reflects on his ChatGPT class and a culture of "just a little bit of fraud"
Stanford student Theo Baker describes in a guest essay for the New York Times how ChatGPT shaped his entire graduating class. His conclusion: AI…
A Status Screen For Bambu Labs Printers
If you’ve got a Bambu Labs printer, it’s usually pretty straightforward to keep an eye on it via the onboard display or the various apps the company…
AI startup revenue hits $80 billion, but Anthropic and OpenAI take almost all of it
Anthropic and OpenAI now capture 89 percent of revenue among top AI startups, according to an analysis by The Information. The article AI startup…
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Tampere University researchers develop ceramic 3D printed scaffolds that replicate bone structure
Researchers at Tampere University in Finland have developed a 3D printed ceramic implant material that is designed to replicate the chemical composition and physical architecture of natural…
Who’s The Biggest In 3D Printing, May 24, 2026
Once again we take a look at the valuations of the major 3D printing companies over the past week.
World Action Models give robots the ability to simulate consequences before they move
World Action Models tackle a basic weakness of today's robotics AI: current models learn which movements match which camera images, but they don't…
Four AI models ran radio stations for six months and the results ranged from competent to unhinged
Andon Labs has been letting four AI models each run their own radio station autonomously for six months. From identical starting conditions, wildly…
Greg Brockman consolidates OpenAI's product teams to build an "agentic future"
OpenAI is merging ChatGPT, its coding agent Codex, and the developer API into a single product team led by Codex boss Thibault Sottiaux. The goal: a…
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch warns France against letting Anthropic's Mythos scan military code bases
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch warns of Europe's growing cybersecurity dependency: France's military code bases should not be scanned by US AI models…
New math benchmark reveals AI models confidently solve problems that have no solution
A consortium of 64 mathematicians built SOOHAK, a new AI benchmark with 439 handwritten tasks, including 99 that are deliberately unsolvable. Google's…
Oppo open-sources Android AI agent X-OmniClaw that uses your camera, screen, and voice without leaving the phone
Oppo's Multi-X team released X-OmniClaw, an open-source agent that runs directly on Android devices and combines camera, screen, and voice to handle…
Your Browser Probably Lies to the Big Sites (Blame Chrome)
When you visit certain large sites in Firefox or Safari, the browser may detect your visit and change its behavior. It could be as simple as lying…
If you’re giving a commencement speech in 2026, maybe don’t mention AI
It's tough to get graduating students excited about a future shaped by artificial intelligence.
TechCrunch Mobility: The AI skills arms race is coming for automotive
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
Why trust is a big question at the Elon Musk-OpenAI trial
A big theme in the trial’s final days was whether OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is trustworthy.
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3D Printing Is Keeping Naval Fleets Afloat for Longer
Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi take a closer look at how additive manufacturing is helping the Navy manage record-breaking deployments and unexpected repairs at sea.
US Army’s AM platoon fabricates counter-UAS mounts in the field during Flytrap 5.0
The US Army‘s 2nd Cavalry Regiment put its organic additive manufacturing capability to practical use during Flytrap 5.0, a counter-unmanned aerial…
Penn State’s 3D printed hydrogel implant cuts blood pressure by 15% in trials
Researchers at Penn State University have developed a 3D printed bioelectronic implant that wraps around the carotid artery and delivers low-frequency…
Rocket Lab rolls the 1,000th Rutherford engine off its production line
In line with its stated goal of launching 1,000 3D printed engines into space by year-end, Rocket Lab reached a production milestone for its…
A Precision Drill Press for Tiny Bits
Anyone who’s worked with even a 1 mm bit knows that while a drill press is all but essential, it isn’t proof against broken bits. Working with a 0.1…
AI made a tiny slice of Silicon Valley filthy rich and left the rest wondering why they bother
According to Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das, about 10,000 people in Silicon Valley have amassed fortunes of over $20 million thanks to the AI boom…
For $1.3 million a month, OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger runs 100 AI agents that code, review PRs, and find bugs
A three-person team led by Peter Steinberger keeps about 100 Codex instances running for the open-source project OpenClaw, driving OpenAI API spend to…
Google says GEO and AEO are a myth and traditional SEO is all you need for AI search
Google says the SEO industry's favorite new buzzwords, "generative engine optimization" and "answer engine optimization," are just regular SEO by…
New benchmark confirms AI video generators look stunning but still can't reason about the world
A new benchmark called WorldReasonBench tests video generators not on image quality, but on physical and logical plausibility. ByteDance's Seedance…
New benchmark shows Claude Mythos and GPT-5.5 can develop real browser exploits autonomously
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University built a new benchmark that measures how far AI agents can go when exploiting real vulnerabilities in…
OpenAI bought a voice cloning startup famous for celebrity imitations
OpenAI has acquired Weights.gg, a small startup that let users create and share AI voice clones of celebrities like Taylor Swift and Donald Trump. The…
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K3D expands MetalFab fleet to six systems across two Netherlands sites
Netherlands-based metal 3D printing service provider K3D added two MetalFab systems to its production fleet, bringing its total to six machines across two manufacturing facilities. The…
Mint Group acquires Generation 3D to bring large-format 3D printing in-house
Mint Group, a themed fabrication and fit-out company operating across the Middle East, has acquired Generation 3D (G3D), a regional 3D printing firm…
ORNL uses 3D printing to fabricate canisters for PM-HIP of large metal components
Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a method for using additive manufacturing to produce…
University of Illinois team 3D prints pure-copper cold plates for electronics cooling
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a cold plate design workflow that pairs topology optimization (TO) with…
Legacy Management Still Slows Adoption of 3D Printing in Large Manufacturers
A brief encounter with a manufacturer revealed an ongoing problem in 3D printing.
preFlight Slicer Brings Added Part Strength Feature, and Many More
Interested in taking some wild new 3D printing features for a test drive? preFlight is a free and open source slicer that brings a host of processing…
Tvasta and 14Trees launch Cedar, an AI-enabled construction 3D printer
Tvasta, a Chennai-based deep-tech startup born out of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, has partnered with construction 3D printing…
Using a Nintendo Switch to Speed Up a 3D Printer
3D printers are almost never fast enough. [Cocoanix] had a Prusa MK3S with this very problem. He found it to be disappointingly tedious when…
The OpenAI trial wraps up, and the Musk founder machine keeps spinning
The Musk v. Altman trial came to a close this week, and the final arguments kept circling back to one question: can we trust the people in charge of…
Anthropic frames AI competition with China as a now-or-never moment for Washington
In a policy paper, Anthropic lays out two scenarios for 2028: either the US locks in its compute lead over China, or authoritarian regimes set the…
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From the mail bag…
From the mail bag! Hey whatup. Just wanted to say I really really love you folks. I am a perma tired industrial engineer, factory automation. I deal with the cream of the bottom of the…
Automating Window Shades With Home Assistant
Most people love window shades, but many dislike the tedium of having to open and close them over the course of each day. While there are automation…
Branch Technology developing 3D printed 50-meter lunar towers for NASA
Based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, construction 3D printing company Branch Technology has been working with NASA since 2017, when it won the 3D Printed…
Cooler Can Holder #3DPrinting #3DThursday
Every week we’ll 3D print designs from the community and showcase slicer settings, use cases and of course, Time-lapses! This Week: Cooler Can Holder…
Creality Patent Suggests Faster Filament Switching For FFF Printing
A new patent application by Creality describes a way to make filament changes faster in FFF 3D printers.
Drifbolt is launching India’s first 3D printed footwear brand with TPU lattice collection
Drifbolt, positioning itself as India’s first 3D printed footwear brand, will launch in one month with three products: the Breeze (₹7,990 / ~$96), the…
FIU’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine builds out 3D printing lab for anatomical and clinical training
A single printer and a handful of components sourced out of pocket have grown into a functioning medical fabrication facility at Florida International…
FLEETWERX and NPS CAMRE field test distributed manufacturing pipeline for military operations
FLEETWERX, working alongside the Naval Postgraduate School’s Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing Research and Education (NPS CAMRE), is currently…
From Wright Brothers to Air Taxis: Joby Aviation’s Bold Manufacturing Bet in Dayton
Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi explore how Joby Aviation’s Dayton expansion signals a turning point in scalable eVTOL manufacturing.
Mecha-Style Desk Lamp with Phone + Pen Holder #3DPrinting #3DThursday
DreamCraft_ shares: lamp uses a snap-fit design, requires no supports, and is foldable download the files on…
Microplastics May Be an Even Bigger Problem Than We Thought
New research adds a troubling new dimension to 3D printing waste: it may be contributing not only to pollution, but also to climate change.
Raspberry Pi 5 AI/M.2 HAT+ Snap Case – Hex Vent + Compliant Power Button #3DPrinting #3DThursday
lr_f3d shares: Hexagonal-patterned Pi 5 case with an integrated compliant mechanism power button — press a tab on the back and it actuates the Pi’s…
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AtrimusRx becomes first Swedish community pharmacy validated for 3D printed drug compounding
AtrimusRx has become the first community pharmacy operator in Sweden to receive regulatory validation for incorporating additive manufacturing into its extemporaneous pharmaceutical…
Endless Industries and BigRep bring continuous carbon fiber reinforcement to large-format 3D printing
Berlin-based deep-tech company Endless Industries has completed a two-year integration of its continuous fiber reinforcement technology into BigRep‘s…
BMW Group to host second automotive AM conference
The “Additive Manufacturing @ BMW Group” conference returns on May 19–20, 2026, at the Leonardo Munich Arabellapark hotel, with BMW Group again…
Samuel sells Burloak Technologies to BTX Precision
Samuel, Son & Co., Limited completed the sale of its additive manufacturing subsidiary, Burloak Technologies, to i3D MFG, a division of BTX Precision…
ViscoTec hosts fluid 3D printing event at Töging am Inn innovation center
Fluid systems specialist ViscoTec recently brought together users, developers, and academic representatives at its Customer and Innovation Center…
Alva Industries to bring its frameless motor technology to the Robotics Summit
At the show, Alva will show SlimTorq, one of the thinnest and lightest frameless motors on the market.
Architecting Reliability: How GMSL Diagnostics Enable Robust Vision
Autonomous and robotic systems rely on highbandwidth, lowlatency sensor data to perceive and navigate the world.
Bridging the gap: Profitability meets sustainability through physical AI
Join Ranpak’s Omar Asali at the Robotics Summit to learn how physical AI scales sustainable, profitable warehouse operations.
From Airflow to ROI: Why Madison Air’s IPO Matters for 3D Printing
Charles R Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi explain how Madison Air’s blockbuster IPO highlights the growing role of 3D printing and energy efficiency in…
How humanoids learn to read the room
The closer robots get to people, the more vital it is for them to see, hear and react without missing a beat.
New Resin 3D Printer Can Print In Multiple Materials
I’m looking at a new and upcoming device from Polysynth that claims to be a multimaterial resin 3D printer.
Rice Husk Biochar Helps PLA Slide Better
Researchers may have found a useful role for rice husk waste in 3D printing: making PLA parts slide better and wear less.
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On Schaeffler’s Factory Floor, Robots and 3D Printers Are Rewriting the Rules
Charles R. Goulding and Andressa Bonafe break down how Schaeffler is blending automation and additive manufacturing to tackle labor shortages and redefine production flexibility.
Addliance launches AMin4Y four-year Strategic European AM Roadmap
Addliance–The European AM Hubs Alliance is developing AMin4Y European Additive Manufacturing Roadmap, a four-year initiative to create a common…
Comau and OMRON Robotics partner to offer robotics for more industries
Comau and OMRON Robotics are combining robotics, control, and software capabilities in flexible automation for global customers.
Ford and Sharrow Engineering cut propeller production time from months to weeks with 3D printed sand-casting
Ford Motor Company‘s Advanced Industrial Technology & Platforms (ATP) team and Sharrow Engineering’s partnership has led to significant cuts in lead…
Robot Assembled Voxels Could Challenge Concrete 3D Printing
A new MIT study suggests robot assembled voxels may be better than 3DCP for sustainability.
2026 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards
We unveil the 2026 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards, including the Robot of the Year, Startup of the Year, Application of the Year, and Robots for…
Axtra3D names Dynamism as North American reseller in channel push
Axtra3D has added Dynamism as an authorized North American reseller, extending its regional distribution network for the Lumia X1 production 3D…
Bambu Lab Patent Describes Smarter 3D Printer Heating
Shenzhen Tuozhu Technology has filed a patent application for a 3D printer control system that manages heating loads more intelligently.
Hello Robot’s latest Stretch 4 is bigger, faster, and stronger than previous versions
Hello Robot's latest Stretch 4 is more capable than previous assistive robots, while still maintaining flexibility and safety.
Jay Leno takes Czinger 21C 3D printed hypercar for a spin
On the latest episode of Jay Leno’s web series Jay Leno’s Garage, the comedian and car collector reviewed and test drove Czinger’s 3D printed…
Researchers Map Speed To Resonance In Desktop FFF Printers
A new open-access paper proposes a verifiable mapping between toolhead speed and vibration frequency on desktop FFF machines, aiming to make input…
Shy Society – a monumental kinetic light installation in Venice #ArtTuesday
Shy Society is a kinetic installation by Studio Drift that transforms Venice’s Palazzo Balbi into a “breathing” building. The Concept: It mimics…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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Castomize’s heat-molded 3D printed orthopedic cast has reduced costs by up to 25%
A Singapore-based startup, Castomize, has developed a 3D printed open cast for wrist, arm and ankle fractures that is breathable, lightweight, and fully waterproof, and which helps avoid…
Historic Chinese courtyard house fully digitally scanned for preservation using SHINING 3D scanners
Preserving historic architecture in digital form has long required practitioners to choose between coverage and resolution. A project at Shijiazhuang…
How to engineer robot tracks and 7th axis systems for real-world environments
Experts from Güdel will focus on how harsh and dirty environments impact robot tracks and long-axis linear motion systems. The post How to engineer…
METR says it can barely measure Claude Mythos, Palo Alto Networks warns of autonomous AI attackers
METR can barely measure Claude Mythos Preview with its current test suite. Only five out of 228 tasks cover the relevant capability range. Meanwhile…
GPT-5.5 costs 49 to 92 percent more than its predecessor, depending on the input length
OpenAI doubled GPT-5.5's list price compared to GPT-5.4, claiming shorter responses would offset the increase. An OpenRouter analysis of real usage…
Multimaterial SLA Printer Will Make Your Head Spin
For the last few years, the must-have feature that companies are competing to show off on their filament deposition 3D printers is multi-material…
Building Out PREMIUM Swiss Tooling
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Anthropic says ‘evil’ portrayals of AI were responsible for Claude’s blackmail attempts
Fictional portrayals of artificial intelligence can have a real effect on AI models, according to Anthropic.
What Causes of Lightening?
In 1752, Benjamin Franklin conducted his famous kite experiment, as depicted in this c. 1816 painting by Benjamin West. This experiment established…
Who’s The Biggest In 3D Printing, May 10, 2026
Once again we take a look at the valuations of the major 3D printing companies over the past week. The post Who’s The Biggest In 3D Printing…
Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
This is ymawky, a static file web server for MacOS written entirely in ARM64 assembly. It supports GET, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, and OPTIONS requests, and…
‘Your Career Starts at the Beginning of the AI Revolution,’ NVIDIA CEO Tells Graduates
“You are entering the world at an extraordinary moment,” NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang told graduates as he delivered the keynote address at…
Cartographers Review Movie Maps
John Nelson and Peter Attwood review maps in Lord Of the Rings, Harry Potter, The Muppets, Game Of Thrones and more in this absolutely delightful…
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Cognex releases fully integrated AI-powered vision system for robotics
The system combines Cognex-developed edge AI, advanced AI, and rule-based vision tools with a high-performance embedded compute. The post Cognex releases fully integrated AI-powered vision…
Why traditional robotics data collection is obsolete and what replaces it
Eric Chan discusses Rhoda AI's innovative approach to robotics using video data for scalable, efficient learning. The post Why traditional robotics…
Video Friday: AI Gives Robot Hands Human-Like Dexterity
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar…
Fields Medalist says ChatGPT 5.5 Pro delivered "PhD-level" math research in under two hours with zero human help
Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers had ChatGPT 5.5 Pro tackle open problems in number theory. The model improved an exponential bound to a polynomial one…
Generative Braces Move Into Metal: An Interview with LightForce’s James Lawton
Charles R. Goulding and Andressa Bonafe detail the R&D tax credit implications for medical device innovators who overcome manufacturing…
Musk v. Altman week 2: OpenAI fires back, and Shivon Zilis reveals that Musk tried to poach Sam Altman
In the second week of the landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI, Musk’s motivations for bringing the suit were under scrutiny. Last week, Musk…
Machining a Two-Stroke Engine out of Aluminium
Recently [Camden Bowen] took a swing at machining a two-stroke engine out of billet aluminium, following adventures in 3D printing such an engine, as…
Broadcom reportedly won't build OpenAI's custom chip unless Microsoft buys 40 percent of them
OpenAI's custom AI chip project with Broadcom has hit a funding wall. Broadcom won't finance production unless Microsoft commits to buying 40 percent…
Getting a Proprietary-Bus GPU onto PCIe Enables Cheaper Local LLMs, For Now
If you’ve been thinking of getting into self-hosting generative AI, but don’t have a big budget for hardware, you might want to check out…
Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
This is ymawky, a static file web server for MacOS written entirely in ARM64 assembly. It supports GET, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, and OPTIONS requests, and…
Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: May is AANHPI Heritage Month, Starlight Groove Tutu – Sound-Reactive LED Skirt, & More
ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UP We’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you…
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 9)
Artificial Intelligence AI Is Starting to Build Better AIMatthew Hutson | IEEE Spectrum “In 1966, the English mathematician IJ Good wrote…
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New Cadillac F1 team leveraging 3D Systems’ SLA 3D printing
Last Sunday at the Miami Grand Prix, the Cadillac Formula 1 team completed its home debut and its fourth ever Grand Prix. Despite not yet placing in the top 10, … The post New Cadillac…
3D Print Manager Streamlines Filament Inventory for Small Print Farms
There’s a new tool to help you manage your inventory of 3D printer filament. The post 3D Print Manager Streamlines Filament Inventory for Small Print…
Robot Talk Episode 155 – Making aerial robots smarter, with Melissa Greeff
Claire chatted to Melissa Greeff from Queen’s University about autonomous navigation and learning for drones. Melissa Greeff is an Assistant…
Learn how to successfully design hospital logistics robots at the Robotics Summit
Experts from Rovex Technologies, SKA Robotics, and ST Engineering Aethon will discuss design considerations for hospital robotics. The post Learn how…
How coupling stiffness and misalignment compensation impact servo performance
Sponsored by GAM. Servo couplings connect components while compensating for misalignment, providing the torsional stiffness necessary for precise…
OpenAI opens GPT-5.5-Cyber to vetted security researchers
OpenAI is releasing GPT-5.5-Cyber, a model variant that rejects far fewer security requests and even actively executes exploits against test servers…
Chip Industry Week In Review
New Taiwan adv. packaging site; M&A activity; GF's CPO solution; Apple looks beyond TSMC; EU chip companies map; strong earnings; MIT's new lidar…
Nanoleaf bets its future on robots, red light therapy, and AI
Smart lighting company Nanoleaf has been unusually quiet recently. While competitors such as Govee and Philips Hue have been pumping out new products…
National Park Service Celebrates Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month #APAHM #AANHPI
The National Park Service is Celebrating Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month – Learn more at NPS.gov Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and…
Musk v. Altman week 2: OpenAI fires back, and Shivon Zilis reveals that Musk tried to poach Sam Altman
In the second week of the landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI, Musk’s motivations for bringing the suit were under scrutiny. Last week, Musk…
Could Your Next House be Built from Giant Lego By an Inchworm Robot?
Well, it depends when you’re going to be househunting– if it’s anytime soon, Betteridge’s law applies, but if your time…
Lilly to invest extra $4.5B across Indiana manufacturing
The Indianapolis-based company expanded its spend to ensure it can meet growing demand for genetic therapies and weight-loss drugs.
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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Wool Source and KiwiFil bring wool-based colorant to FFF filament in “world first”
Wool Source, a Christchurch, New Zealand-based ingredients manufacturer and the commercial arm of the Wool Research Organisation of New Zealand (WRONZ), has developed a pigment derived from…
1X begins production of NEO humanoids in California facility
1X has launched full-scale production at its 'NEO factory,' bringing vertically integrated humanoid robot manufacturing to the U.S. The post 1X begins…
LOOP 3D Teases Production-Focused Upgrade
LOOP 3D announced a new 3D printer, the LOOP PRO X+ TURBO Gen2. The post LOOP 3D Teases Production-Focused Upgrade appeared on Fabbaloo .
How Pre-Built AI Models Speed Up Factory Inspection Deployment
This blog post was originally published at Lincode’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Lincode. Did you know that over 35% of…
Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI has gone full stack, demo shows
Genesis AI, a startup that raised a $105 million seed round to build foundational AI for robotics, has unveiled its first model, GENE-26.5, but also a…
Johnson & Johnson completes clinical study for OTTAVA robotic surgical system
Johnson & Johnson said it has demonstrated the feasibility of OTTAVA's compact design for small operating rooms. The post Johnson & Johnson…
Chip Fab-in-a-Box Could Democratize Semiconductors
When Mitchell Hsing was a grad student at MIT, he and his classmates were doing cutting-edge things using what was essentially chip-industry cast-off…
A mini electronic saxophone
The Circuit Sax (v2) by Nigel is a mini electronic saxophone. It’s made with mechanical switches, custom 3D printed keycaps, and breath input…
Researchers Turn Cashew Waste Into High-Performance Industrial Adhesive
INCHEON, South Korea — It may sound nuts, but researchers at Inha University have developed a high-performance, biodegradable adhesive derived from…
Mira Murati tells the court that she couldn’t trust Sam Altman’s words
Mira Murati, OpenAI's former CTO, has testified under oath that CEO Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new AI model. In a video…
Direct FDM Printing with Granules
The idea of FDM 3D printing using granules rather than filament is an appealing one: rather than having to wrangle spools of filament that need to…
ChatGPT ads are now open to small businesses as OpenAI builds a full self-serve ad platform
Advertisers in the US can now book ads in ChatGPT on their own. The $50,000 minimum budget is gone. OpenAI is targeting $2.5 billion in ad revenue…
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X-ray study reveals how microscopic pores drive fractures in 3D printed metals
A team of researchers from IMDEA Materials Institute and the Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M), working with collaborators in France and Japan, has published a study in the Journal…
Tutor Intelligence builds Data Factory to train robot AI in the real world
Tutor Intelligence is running 100 Sonny semi-humanoid robots in its headquarters while sharing technology and data with its Cassie mobile manipulator…
Machining Plastic 3X Faster
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📝 **Transcript Preview:** So today we're going to be machining blue delrin on our Scle X9. I'm going to walk you through step by step how I made this…
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📝 **Transcript Preview:** I have these balls on the table because they represent shotgun gauges. If this ball were made of lead, it would take one…
Prusa Patents Automated Resin Print Workflow
A Czech patent application by Prusa Research proposes a more coordinated resin printing workflow built around shared process data. The post Prusa…
Rockwell, Teradyne, Tesla see automation demand despite uncertainty
The companies are reporting strong earnings growth fueled in part by data center and robotics demand. Elon Musk also teased Tesla’s Optimus as…
INSANE CNC Cuts 😳
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📝 **Transcript Preview:** Yes. Oh, what was that? That's not a drill. Can it do it twice? Oh, glorious. Oh, 80%. It's getting hot in there. Oh, 10°…
WaiV Robotics emerges from stealth to help drones take off and land at sea
With $7.5 million in funding, WaiV Robotics is working to productize its drone landing system, and find OEM partners to work with. The post WaiV…
Upcoming Webinar on Computer Vision and Edge AI for Defect Detection
On May 14, 2026, at 12:00 pm PDT (2:00 pm EDT) TDK SensEI will deliver a webinar “Using Computer Vision and edge AI for Defect Detection” From the…
OpenAI's first hardware play might be a phone that replaces your app grid with an agent task stream
OpenAI is reportedly planning its own AI smartphone, with chips from MediaTek and Qualcomm and manufacturing by Luxshare. According to analyst…
OpenAI claims ChatGPT’s new default model hallucinates way less
OpenAI's newest default model for ChatGPT might not make stuff up as much. Hallucinations have been an ongoing problem for AI models, but OpenAI says…
Replacing GPU Compute Dies With PNM-Enabled HBM Cubes For Long-Context Decode Attention (UCSD, Columbia, Yonsei U., NVIDIA, Samsung)
A new technical paper, “AMMA: A Multi-Chiplet Memory-Centric Architecture for Low-Latency 1M Context Attention Serving,” was published by…
Simulate Thermal Performance in Autodesk Fusion
Autodesk Fusion shared this video on Youtube! Learn how to perform a thermal simulation in Autodesk Fusion with this step-by-step beginner-friendly…
ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet on his company’s monopoly: no one is coming for us
Christophe Fouquet, who became ASML's CEO in 2024 after more than a decade at the company, sat down with this editor on the rooftop deck of his…
Cutting Steel Gears with Homemade EDM
Electrostatic discharge machining (EDM) may be slower than alternatives like laser cutting, water jets, or a milling machine, but for some…
The USB Keyboard We're Never Allowed to Plug In
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📝 **Transcript Preview:** Hey everybody, Adam Savage here and today in partnership with our friends at Threat Locker, we are taking another look at…
The Physics Behind the Thumb Trick
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📝 **Transcript Preview:** Have you ever filled a bucket with water from the garden hose? It’s kind of a slow process. Or at least it feels slow while…
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Formes et Volumes 3D prints composite lamination tool using Caracol LFAM
Formes et Volumes, a France-based machine shop specializing in prototypes, molds and professional models, recently partnered with LFAM specialist Caracol to produce a large-scale composite…
ABB Robotics launches OmniVance autonomous surface finishing cell
ABB Robotics said its new OmniVance Collaborative Surface Finishing Cell automates repetitive sanding and polishing tasks The post ABB Robotics…
DAIMON Robotics Wants to Give Robot Hands a Sense of Touch
This article is brought to you by DAIMON Robotics . This April, Hong Kong-based DAIMON Robotics has released Daimon-Infinity , which it describes as…
GM’s US manufacturing investments surpass $6B in one year
The company’s latest commitments totaling $830 million will support SUV and truck production at major facilities in Michigan and Ohio.
Waste Free 3D Printers Could Transform the Future of Color 3D Printing
Where are all the full-colour 3D models? The post Waste Free 3D Printers Could Transform the Future of Color 3D Printing appeared on Fabbaloo .
The creator of Roomba is back with a furry robot companion
Colin Angle, the maker of the Roomba and the man who helped put 50 million household robots into people's homes, is back with a new robot. But this…
Inside Colin Angle’s bid to build companion robots with Familiar Machines & Magic
Familiar Machines & Magic, Colin Angle's new robot startup, is developing a quadruped 'familiar' to succeed in a challenging category. The post…
FlexiHook – Print-in-Place Foldable Coat Hook #3DPrinting #3DThursday
Robota shares: Introducing FlexiHook, the ultimate 3D printable coat hook designed for both functionality and style. This innovative hook is crafted…
Image AI models now drive app growth, beating chatbot upgrades
Appfigures finds visual model launches generate 6.5x more downloads — but most don’t convert that spike into revenue.
Anthropic and OpenAI now agree on one thing: selling AI requires a lot more than just the AI
Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs are launching a new AI services company to help mid-market businesses adopt Claude…
Case Study: How an Enterprise Tech Team Went from Dozens to 2,000+ Fine-Tuning Configurations
This blog post was originally published in expanded form at RapidFire AI’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of RapidFire AI. The Use…
The Math You Need to Start Understanding LLMs
Once you peel back the hype and mysticism, large language models (LLMs) are a fascinating application of statistical models, effectively what you get…
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Rosatom ships RusBeam 2800 electron beam 3D printer to India for aerospace use
Rosatom‘s Fuel Division has delivered its RusBeam 2800 industrial 3D printer to India, in a deal that marks the Russian state corporation’s entry into the Indian additive…
Firestorm Labs secures $82 million Series B to scale forward-deployed manufacturing platform
Firestorm Labs, a defense technology company focused on producing combat systems, has raised $82 million in Series B funding, bringing its total…
Why physical AI is the real manufacturing revolution
Physical AI promises to transform manufacturing, but only if robotics developers and integrators avoid hype and address real scaling challenges…
Closing the latency gap: Why physical AI requires edge-first architectures
Madhu Gaganam, founder and CEO of Cogniedge.ai, said the industry’s shift toward true cobots demands more than safer cages or slower speeds. The post…
Three-Axis Camera Slider From 3D Printer Parts
There’s a great reason 3D printers are made with things like extruded aluminum rails and other commodity, off-the-shelf parts. These things are…
Grinding Aluminum the RIGHT Way
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Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web
Hi HN, author here. SHARP is Apple's recent single-image 3D Gaussian splatting model ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10685 ). Their reference code is…
Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Stomp-Reactive Light Up Slippers & More
ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UP We’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you…
Xiaomi's open-weight MiMo-V2.5-Pro takes aim at Claude Opus with hours-long autonomous coding
Xiaomi's new MiMo-V2.5-Pro nearly matches Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 on coding benchmarks while burning 40 to 60 percent fewer tokens, according to…
How the internet’s favorite squirrel dad made the hottest camera app of 2026
It's not hyperbole to call DualShot Recorder an overnight sensation. It took only 12 hours from the time it was released to hit number one on the App…
Who’s The Biggest In 3D Printing, May 3, 2026
Once again we take a look at the valuations of the major 3D printing companies over the past week. The post Who’s The Biggest In 3D Printing…
Same prompt, different morals: how frontier AI models diverge on ethical dilemmas
A new benchmark puts leading language models through 100 everyday ethical scenarios, from data misuse in sales to protocol violations in oncology…
NVIDIA's New AI Turns One Photo Into A World That Never Breaks
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📝 **Transcript Preview:** I can’t believe that we are getting this for free. What is this? Well, hold on to your papers Fellow Scholars because you…
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Apollo Automobil hypercar sports a 3D printed titanium “dragon skin” inspired exhaust
Apollo Automobil has revealed a stunning “Dragon Skin Exhaust” for its Apollo EVO hypercar – a one-piece, fully titanium, laser-sintered component that took 123 hours to produce. The…
LightForce Orthodontics launches patient-specific 3D printed metal bracket
LightForce Orthodontics has brought LightBracket Metal, a patient-specific 3D printed metal bracket, to market, describing it as the first of its…
Phase stability regulator based on two dynamic parameters for autonomous mobile robots
Autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs, can benefit from a phase regulator with two real-time signals, according to a researcher. The post Phase stability…
FAULHABER designs DualGear for autonomous logistics systems
FAULHABER has designed DualGear to offer high performance in space-constrained autonomous logistics applications. The post FAULHABER designs DualGear…
Even the latest AI models make three systematic reasoning errors, ARC-AGI-3 analysis shows
The ARC Prize Foundation analyzed 160 game runs of OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Anthropic's Opus 4.7 on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark. Three systematic error…
The art of crossing the chasm: When is a startup ready for enterprise adoption?
Silicon Foundry bridges the chasm between startups and enterprises, focusing on innovation, strategic partnerships, and navigating macroeconomic…
Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions
Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.
Machinist Only Ran 2 IPM 😲
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📝 **Transcript Preview:** I was once working in a machine shop where we processed hundreds of loaves of bread a day. And I walked up to a machinist…
A Bit of Data Center Heat Can Be Turned Back into Electricity
Managing heat in AI data centers is a growing challenge. As hyperscalers cram more and more high power computing systems into huge facilities , they…
Musk v. Altman week 1: Elon Musk says he was duped, warns AI could kill us all, and admits that xAI distills OpenAI’s models
In the first week of the landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI, Musk took the stand in a crisp black suit and tie and argued that OpenAI CEO Sam…
New Synopsys.ai Copilots Deliver 2–5× Faster Chip Design Productivity
AI-assisted semiconductor design and verification is no longer just a concept. It is now a full-fledged reality that is delivering remarkable…
Potential Route To Photonic FPCA Using NV Low-Loss Phase Change Material (Oxford)
A new technical paper, “Nonvolatile photonic field-programmable coupler array,” was published by researchers at University of Oxford…
How Tulsa Built a Blueprint for Mid-Size City Innovation
Charles R. Goulding and Aaron Rofe highlight how Tulsa’s focused approach to tech development, workforce strategy, and industrial investment is…
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US Navy depot delivers first flight-certified metal 3D printed parts to fleet
The US Navy aviation repair and maintenance facility, Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE), has delivered its first flight-certified metal additive-manufactured parts to the US Navy fleet…
AI And Digital Twin Manufacturing Architecture For Small Businesses
Researchers described a practical AI and Digital Twin architecture to enable SMEs to use closed-loop small-batch additive manufacturing. The post AI…
Why deformable materials are physical AI’s real manufacturing test
Physical AI can tackle assembly of deformable materials in apparel and beyond -- with the right approach and software, says Createme's CEO. The post…
Video Friday: Figure, 1X Ramp Up Humanoid Robot Production
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar…
Adafruit’s Top 10 Blog Posts of April 2026 #StateOfTheFruit #AdafruitTopTen
1. Asimov’s three laws of robotics survived 82 years, we broke them in 30 minutes, costs 80 cents, and then remade them 2. ESP32-BlueJammer disrupts…
GPT-5.5 matches Claude Mythos in cyber attack tests, UK AI Security Institute finds
OpenAI's GPT-5.5 is the second AI model capable of autonomously solving a full network attack simulation, according to the UK AI Security Institute…
Robot Talk Episode 154 – Visual navigation in insects and robots, with Andrew Philippides
Claire chatted to Andrew Philippides from the University of Sussex about what we can learn from ants and bees to improve robot navigation. Andrew…
The art of crossing the chasm: When is a startup ready for enterprise adoption?
Silicon Foundry bridges the chasm between startups and enterprises, focusing on innovation, strategic partnerships, and navigating macroeconomic…
Microsoft wants lawyers to trust its new AI agent in Word documents
Microsoft is launching a new AI agent inside Word that's specifically designed for legal teams. Legal Agent handles document edits, negotiation…
The rise of smarter robots and why memory is becoming their superpower
This blog post was originally published at Micron Technology’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Micron Technology. If it feels…
Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions
Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.
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3DXTECH and BigRep partner for US market expansion
3DXTECH, a leading US manufacturer of high-performance 3D printing filaments, has entered a reseller partnership with German large-format industrial 3D printing systems provider BigRep…
Launchpad Build AI offers MLM to speed industrial automation design
Launchpad Build AI says its Manufacturing Language Model can democratize automation for high-mix, low-volume production with inputs from photos…
PrintDry Launches PRO4 Filament Dryer With Modular Design and High-Temperature Capability
PrintDry has launched their latest 3D printer filament drying system, the PRO4. The post PrintDry Launches PRO4 Filament Dryer With Modular Design and…
California lawmakers open the gate for autonomous trucks in the state
The California DMV has paved the way for autonomous trucks in the state with expanded safety and oversight requirements for all autonomous vehicles…
DAIMON Robotics Wants to Give Robot Hands a Sense of Touch
This article is brought to you by DAIMON Robotics . This April, Hong Kong-based DAIMON Robotics has released Daimon-Infinity , which it describes as…
The Maker’s Toolbox: Elegoo Jupiter 2 Resin 3D Printer Review
After months of testing, I'm ready to tell you what I really think about the gargantuan Elegoo Jupiter 2.
Voronoi ‘Poops’ Lamp (Upcycle Filament Waste) #3DPrinting #3DThursday
MalmoToy shares: Tired of throwing away your 3D printing waste? This modern, Voronoi-inspired lamp is specifically designed to turn your filament…
This startup’s new mechanistic interpretability tool lets you debug LLMs
The San Francisco–based startup Goodfire just released a new tool, called Silico, that lets researchers and engineers peer inside an AI model and…
After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber, too
OpenAI will begin rolling out its cybersecurity testing tool, GPT-5.5 Cyber only "to critical cyber defenders" at first.
Facilitating Complex SoC Design Through Automation And Integration
The boundaries between IP reuse, interconnect design, and hardware-software integration are no longer independent. The post Facilitating Complex SoC…
Tencent's 440 MB AI model translates 33 languages offline on your phone
Tencent has released a compact AI translation model as an open-weight model that it claims outperforms Google Translate and runs completely offline on…
Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI
Sam Altman and Elon Musk are facing off in a high-stakes trial that could alter the future of OpenAI and its most well-known product, ChatGPT. In…
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Xenia launches bio-based PPA carbon-fiber filament for high-stress 3D printing applications
Italian reinforced thermoplastic composites manufacturer Xenia Materials has released XECARB PPA-CF, a fused filament fabrication (FFF)/fused deposition modeling (FDM) filament built on a…
Researchers Boost SLA Resin Conductivity With PEDOT:PSS
A research team designed a photopolymer resin loaded with PEDOT:PSS and nano-graphite to achieve 3D printable electrical conductivity. The post…
Project CETI deploys autonomous underwater gliders to better observe sperm whales
Project CETI has deployed a new underwater glider that can monitor whales for longer than the organization's previous methods. The post Project CETI…
GFT Technologies AI-powered robots move from inspection to action for automakers
GFT Technologies has built on its work with Google Cloud to deploy robots on automotive factory floors to find and remove defective parts. The post…
Ultralightweight sonar plus AI lets tiny drones navigate like bats
This small drone is using sonar, similar to bats’ echolocation, to navigate through a grove of trees. Image credit: Nitin Sanket. By Nitin Sanket…
Blog Review: Apr. 29
Interface IP in 3D; SOCAMM in data centers; edge intelligence implementations; deposition, etch for 3D; interconnect telemetry; design–manufacturing…
With Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, Nvidia reveals what really goes into a modern multimodal model
Nvidia releases Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal model for text, image, video and audio. Not only the performance is exciting, but also a look…
Is AI video just a prequel? Runway’s CEO thinks world models are next
AI-generated video has gone from novelty to creative tool almost overnight, and Runway has a front row seat to the shift. The New York-based company…
Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI
Sam Altman and Elon Musk are facing off in a high-stakes trial that could alter the future of OpenAI and its most well-known product, ChatGPT. In…
Power Buffer Protects Grid From Data Centers’ Wild Load Swings
As more AI data centers come on line, concerns are rising about their effects on the grid, and it’s not just the amount of power they consume. They…
USB colors explained: why White, Black, Blue, or Red ports often cause confusion
Samir Bashir on igor’sLAB writes about an issue we all run into: USB port colors. USB ports are one of those wonderfully everyday details that…
Physical AI: From ST Sensors to a Robotics Platform, How Innovation Can Only Happen Through Collaboration
This blog post was originally published at STMicroelectronics’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of STMicroelectronics. As technology…
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How Relativity Space’s Horizon and DEEP Manufacturing turned large-scale WAAM expertise into industrial services
There is a particular credibility that comes from having already done something no one else has. Relativity Space built the largest 3D printed object ever to fly—its Terran 1 rocket—by…
Elegoo Releases Affordable CANVAS Kit for Multicolor Upgrade on Centauri 3D Printers
Elegoo has released their long-awaited CANVAS upgrade for the original Centauri Carbon 3D printer. The post Elegoo Releases Affordable CANVAS Kit for…
Appetronix acquires Cibotica to automate restaurant kitchens
Until now, Appetronix has focused on creating standalone fully autonomous restaurants. With Cibotica, it can also retrofit existing kitchens. The post…
Flex and Teradyne expand partnership to scale physical AI
Flex and Teradyne Robotics expanded their partnership to accelerate physical AI across global manufacturing facilities. The post Flex and Teradyne…
Show HN: Drive any macOS app in the background without stealing the cursor
Hi HN, Francesco from Cua here. I hacked this project together last weekend, inspired by the Codex Computer-Use release and lessons learned from…
How to Reverse-Engineer Almost Any Keyboard Matrix With Raspberry Pi Pico
Super handy tutorial from Indian student/maker thanishurs31 that combines the powers of the pi pico with CicuitPython: This guide does it differently…
Addressing Technical Challenges in Next-Gen Smart Lock Design
this blog… From Connectivity Standards Alliance’s Matter™ and Aliro™ to Biometric Authentication The growing demand for secure…
Microarchitecture Tailored to 3D-Stacked Near-Memory Processing LLM Decoding (U. of Edinburgh, Peking U., Cambridge et al.)
A new technical paper, “Rethinking Compute Substrates for 3D-Stacked Near-Memory LLM Decoding: Microarchitecture-Scheduling Co-Design,”…
Better Hardware Could Turn Zeros into AI Heroes
When it comes to AI models, size matters. Even though some artificial-intelligence experts warn that scaling up large language models (LLMs) is…
Amazon is already offering new OpenAI products on AWS
A day after OpenAI got Microsoft to agree to end exclusive rights, AWS announced a slate of OpenAI model offerings, including a new agent service.
Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI
Sam Altman and Elon Musk are facing off in a high-stakes trial that could alter the future of OpenAI and its most well-known product, ChatGPT. In…
Here is what an LLM that knows nothing after 1930 thinks our world looks like in 2026
"Talkie" is a 13B-parameter language model trained only on texts written before 1931. It doubts a second world war will happen and pictures 2026 as a…
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Scrap Labs debuts Scrap 1 LPBF metal 3D printer at $9,600 entry-level price
Scrap Labs debuted its first product, the Scrap 1 LPBF metal 3D printer, at the Rocky Mountain RepRap Festival (RMRRF) in Loveland, Colorado, on April 18–19, 2026. The Boulder-based company…
Eclipse raises $1.3B to reshore manufacturing, strengthen supply chains
The capital, provided mostly by U.S. universities and foundations, will go to startups focused on robotics, automation and other innovations.
Roadmap to Autonomous Manufacturing: An AI driven Approach Based on Engineering Foundations
This article was originally published at HCLTech’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of HCL Tech. Autonomous manufacturing can be…
Learn about the latest advances in physical AI at the Robotics Summit
The Robotics Summit & Expo will have an entire track of sessions focusing on how to apply artificial intelligence to robotics. The post Learn…
Prime3D Enables Full-Color Images in FFF 3D Printing
Is it possible to 3D print full-colour images with filament? Apparently, it is now. The post Prime3D Enables Full-Color Images in FFF 3D Printing…
Sereact gets Series B funding to expand Cortex 2.0 robot brain, enter U.S. market
Sereact plans to expand Cortex 2.0 from bin picking to tasks such as assembly and kitting, and it is opening a Boston office. The post Sereact gets…
Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview
Scored 65.2% vs google's official 47.8%, and the existing top closed source model Junie CLI's 64.3%. Since there are a lot of reports of deliberate…
Google employees ask Sundar Pichai to say no to classified military AI use
Over 600 Google employees signed a letter to CEO Sundar Pichai demanding that Google block the Pentagon from using its AI models for classified…
From the Adafruit Learning System: LEGO-Compatible Servo Mounts
Who doesn’t love LEGO-compatible bricks? Nobody! Except when we accidentally step on them. There are soooo many mechanical things one can make…
OpenAI reportedly developing its own smartphone chips with MediaTek and Qualcomm
According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, OpenAI is working with MediaTek and Qualcomm on custom smartphone processors, with Luxshare as the exclusive…
Rolls-Royce unveils new Additive Manufacturing Development Cell at Defence Assembly & Operations facility
Per Rolls-Royce, the machinery will play a 'critical role' in 'accelerating innovation, knowledge and skills' across the Global Combat Air Programme.
Elon Musk and Sam Altman are going to court over OpenAI’s future
After a yearslong legal feud, Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are heading to trial this week in Northern California in a case that could have…
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NTU researchers develop ultra-thin optical film to improve LCD resin 3D printing accuracy
Researchers at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology have developed an ultra-thin, double-sided optical film designed to overcome light control problems in LCD-based resin…
AI framework predicts metal 3D printed part strength in seconds
Researchers at POSTECH and the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) have developed an AI-based analytical framework that can predict the…
Look back on 10 years of legged robots with Ghost Robotics at the Robotics Summit
At the summit, Gavin Kenneally, CEO and co-founder of Ghost Robotics, will share lessons from 10 years of deploying quadruped robots. The post Look…
500 investment bankers review AI outputs and find none ready for client delivery
A new benchmark puts top models like GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 to work on the kinds of tasks junior investment bankers handle every day. Not a…
BMO AI Agent Upgrades
image via brenpoly / be-more-agent, GitHub   Back in February we first came across brenpoly’s BMO project on YouTube. Since then, there…
Building an IBM PCjr BIOS from Source Using Original Printed Source Code
As unloved as IBM’s PCjr was, with only a one-year production run, it’s hard to complain about the documentation available for it. This…
Who’s The Biggest In 3D Printing, April 26, 2026
Once again we take a look at the valuations of the major 3D printing companies over the past week. The post Who’s The Biggest In 3D Printing…
OpenAI kills its dedicated coding model Codex again, folding it into GPT-5.5
OpenAI has once again retired its dedicated Codex coding model, folding its capabilities directly into the main model. GPT-5.5 promises stronger…
Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: CircuitPython 10.2.0, wili8jam PICO-8 port for Fruit Jam, & more!
ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UP We’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you…
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YKK wins Red Dot Design Award for 3D printed zipper developed with Variloom
YKK Corporation has received a prestigious Red Dot Design Award in the Product Design category for its 3D Composite Puller, a zipper hardware component developed with Variloom, a specialist…
ARC and ORNL form Exascale Foundry to accelerate defense manufacturing
ARC (Autonomous Resource Corporation) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory signed a Memorandum of Understanding establishing a public–private partnership…
JetZero and Airplane Manufacturing Disruption
Charles R. Goulding and Nimra Shakoor examine how JetZero is combining advanced materials, 3D printing, and AI to reshape aircraft production and fuel…
ABB Robotics launches PoWa cobot family targeting industrial tasks
ABB Robotics said its new PoWa family of cobots addresses a long‑standing gap in the market between traditional cobots. The post ABB Robotics launches…
Machinist NEVER Cuts Chamfers
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📝 **Transcript Preview:** A long time ago, I was managing an aerospace machine shop. We had this one machinist, a great guy, super consistent, but…
OpenAI unveils GPT-5.5, claims a "new class of intelligence" at double the API price
OpenAI has announced GPT-5.5, an agentic model designed to work through complex tasks autonomously by switching between multiple tools. The article…
A Humanoid Robot Beat the Human World Record for a Half Marathon
A year after most robots failed to finish the Beijing race, nearly half the field autonomously ran a course of slopes, narrow passages, and 20 turns…
FAA’s Drone Safety Day 2026 #drone #DroneSafetyDay
Image banner from Federal Aviation Administration   FlySafe, FlySmart, FlyReady. Saturday, April 25, 2026 is Drone Safety Day. This annual…
US programmer job growth nearly halved since ChatGPT launched, Fed study finds
Programmers are among the professional groups whose everyday lives have changed the most as a result of generative AI. A new study by the Federal…
NVIDIA's New AI Broke My Brain
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📝 **Transcript Preview:** Let’s see what is going on here. This is me around 9am. A bit wobbly, steps are unsure, yup, that checks out. Now then…
Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
Every day for the past 3 days around 1pm EST the 'Headspace' app has been silently appearing on my iPhone (13 Pro). Automatic downloads are turned off…
Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-bit Symmetric Keys
A lot has been made about a post-quantum computer future in which traditional encryption methods have suddenly been rendered obsolete. With this…
penPal, a Robotic Drawing Assistant
Emergent properties include examples like murmurations of starlings which can’t be predicted from looking at a single bird, weather which…
A Six-Servo Robot Dog
James Bruton built this cool robot dog using an Arduino Uno and R/C servos. Check out the repository on GitHub! This is the first in a series of…
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Project Hail Mary’s 3D print campaign turns Rocky into a desktop phenomenon. AMAZE
Amazon MGM Studios embedded a 3D printing campaign into the official marketing of Project Hail Mary, the Ryan Gosling-led sci-fi film adapted from Andy Weir’s novel, offering fans free…
Wavelength-Dependent SLA: 3D Printed Action Plots
Researchers have introduced “3D printed action plots” to map how resin cure responds to different wavelengths, offering a new tool for dialing in vat…
5-axis is a cheat code for simple parts. Not just complex ones. #haasautomation #5axismachining
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📝 **Transcript Preview:** My name is Johnny Goodie. I'm the president and coowner of MSP Manufacturing. Uh we're located in Bloomington, Indiana…
Tight Tolerances on a Compact Machine
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DeepSeek previews new AI model that ‘closes the gap’ with frontier models
DeepSeek says both models are more efficient and performant than DeepSeek V3.2 due to architectural improvements, and have almost "closed the gap"…
Robot Talk Episode 153 – Origami-inspired robots, with Chenying Liu
Claire chatted to Chenying Liu from University of Oxford about how a robot’s physical form can actively contribute to sensing, processing…
From sci-fi to reality: Physical AI’s future with Dr. Jan Liphardt
Dr. Jan Liphardt discusses the impact of modular AI systems on robotics, emphasizing the importance of transparency and safety in human-robot…
Accenture, Vodafone, and SAP to pilot humanoid robots in the warehouse
The humanoids in the pilot are powered by Accenture’s Robot Brain solution, enabling them to interact naturally with human operators. The post…
Video Friday: Who Wins in Robot vs. Pro Ping-Pong Player?
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar…
China’s DeepSeek previews new AI model a year after jolting US rivals
Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a preview of its hotly anticipated next-generation AI model V4 on Friday, saying that the open-source model can…
As agentic AI pushes rivals to raise prices and cap usage, Deepseek ships a good-enough model for almost nothing
Chinese AI lab Deepseek has released V4-Pro and V4-Flash, two new models with up to 1.6 trillion parameters and a one-million-token context window…
A Humanoid Robot Beat the Human World Record for a Half Marathon
A year after most robots failed to finish the Beijing race, nearly half the field autonomously ran a course of slopes, narrow passages, and 20 turns…
How to Add Electronics to Your Indoor Plants
Does anything beat the feeling of merging two hobbies? Indoor plant parents and tinkerers, we’ve put together some of our favorite plant related…
Chip Industry Week In Review
Marvell's plasmonics buy; Onto's process control stake; TSMC A14/13 and EDA flows; Apple shuffle; LPDDR6; SOCAMM2 chipset; MATCH Act progress; EUV…
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Mintion releases external filtration unit for enclosed 3D printers
Mintion, a young Chinese company specializing in 3D printer accessories, has released the 3D Printer Filtration System V1, an external air filtration unit designed to reduce particle and…
End of an era: Honeywell hands warehouse automation reins to AIP
Honeywell to sell its Intelligrated and Transnorm warehouse automation brands to American Industrial Partners by late 2026. The post End of an era…
America’s Submarine Surge: How Additive Manufacturing Is Powering the Golden Fleet
Charles R. Goulding and Andressa Bonafe explore how workforce scaling, new production models, and R&D incentives are converging to power the next…
GM’s Mikell Taylor to lead Women in Robotics Breakfast at the Robotics Summit
Mikell Taylor has spent 25 years making robots, from a robotic prom date to uncrewed underwater vehicles and industrial robotic systems. The post…
This Roboticist-Turned-Teacher Built a Life-Size Replica of ENIAC
Tom Burick has always considered himself a builder. Over the years he’s designed robots, constructed a vintage teardrop trailer , and most recently…
Eplus3D metal 3D printing technology used to produce 100,000 (and counting) tyre sipe cuffs
Eplus3D's metal additive manufacturing technology is being harnessed by Hankook Precision Works to support tyre sipes production.
What Anthropic’s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity
Two weeks ago, Anthropic announced that its new model, Claude Mythos Preview, can autonomously find and weaponize software vulnerabilities, turning…
Foldable Raspberry Pi 5 Cyberdeck (with camera) #3DPrinting #3DThursday
ndejongh shares: Here is a brand new Raspberry Pi 5 foldable cyberdeck for a 3.5 inch touch display, camera module (optional) and a Rii Miniture…
Trump science advisor says Chinese actors are copying American AI at massive scale
The US government says it has evidence of large-scale, industrial distillation campaigns targeting American frontier models, with China as the primary…
Drugmaker AbbVie chooses North Carolina for $1.4B manufacturing campus
The 185-acre site will be the company’s largest single investment to date, with a focus on small-volume parenteral products like vials and…
THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION
Today on Decoder, I want to lay out an idea that’s been banging around my head for weeks now as we’ve been reporting on AI and having…
OpenAI’s New GPT-5.5 Powers Codex on NVIDIA Infrastructure — and NVIDIA Is Already Putting It to Work
AI agents have revolutionized developer workflows, and their next frontier is knowledge work: processing information, solving complex problems, coming…
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Cruz’ing through the terminal: A&K Robotics lands $8M for autonomous mobility
Investment is led by Business Development Bank of Canada’s Industrial Innovation Venture Fund and Vantage Futures to expand production and R&D capacity. The post Cruz’ing through…
Swiss researchers develop 3D printed and polymer-coated implant prototypes for infant mitral valve repair
Researchers at HEPIA, part of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO) in Geneva, have developed and characterized a…
The EP-M3050 has a Massive Build Volume and up to 256 Lasers
I’m looking at a very unusual new metal 3D printer, the EP-M3050 from Eplus3D. Eplus3D specializes in manufacturing rather large-format metal 3D…
Glydways brings in $170M to scale its AV technology
Glydways plans to build networks of autonomous vehicle expressways that move people at 10 times the throughput of today's technology. The post…
Proposed Chinese Robot Ban Is Latest U.S. Tech Sovereignty Move
The American Security Robotics Act, a bipartisan bill introduced in March by Senators Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and…
OpenAI launches workspace agents that turn ChatGPT from a chatbot into a team automation platform
OpenAI is rolling out workspace agents in ChatGPT, an evolution of custom GPTs. Powered by Codex, the agents automate complex team workflows and keep…
Sony AI table tennis robot outplays elite human players
Ace rotates its paddle as it prepares to return the ball back to its human opponent, Yamato Kawamata, during a match in December 2025. Credit: Sony…
OpenAI now lets teams make custom bots that can do work on their own
OpenAI is giving users of its Business, Enterprise, Edu, and Teachers plans access to cloud-based "workspace" agents available in ChatGPT that can…
AI Agent Designs a RISC-V CPU Core From Scratch
In 2020, researchers fine-tuned a GPT-2 model to design fragments of logic circuits ; in 2023, researchers used GPT-4 to help design an 8-bit…
Roundtables: Unveiling The 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now
Listen to the session or watch below Subscribers saw a special edition of Roundtables simulcast live from EmTech AI, MIT Technology Review’s signature…
NVIDIA and Google Cloud Collaborate to Advance Agentic and Physical AI
NVIDIA and Google Cloud have collaborated for more than a decade, co‑engineering a full‑stack AI platform that spans every technology layer — from…
13 Edge AI Industrial Applications Where Visual Perception Makes the Difference
This blog post was originally published at Au-Zone’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Au-Zone. Edge AI is the fastest-growing…
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A 3D printer that can brew coffee? Snapmaker’s done it
As part of its RAPID + TCT presentation last week in Boston, Shenzhen-based 3D printer manufacturer Snapmaker invited visitors to come grab a cup of…
Researchers Automate Calibration For 3D Printer Swarms
A new research paper describes an automatic calibration method that lets multiple robotic 3D printers work together on the same build with less setup…
AI robotics: Moving from the lab to the real-world factory floor
Learn the real-world infrastructure and effort required to deploy AI robotics from leaders at Universal Robots, PickNik, and Path Robotics. The post…
The dangers of California’s legislation to censor 3D printing
The EFF lays out the case against California’s legislation to restrict 3D printing: California’s bill, A.B. 2047, will not only mandate…
German court rules in favor of Teradyne Robotics, issues injunction against Elite Robots
Teradyne has obtained an injunction from a German court as it pursues a claim against Elite Robots for copying its UR cobot software. The post German…
Brady to acquire productivity solutions unit from Honeywell for $1.4B
The segment makes barcode scanners, mobile computers and printing products for the warehouse and logistics industries. Honeywell told Manufacturing…
Lattice Collaborates with TI to Accelerate Edge AI for Robotics and Industrial Applications
HILLSBORO, Ore. – Apr. 20, 2026 – Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low power programmable leader, today announced that the company is…
Corporate America's favorite ChatGPT phrase doubled twice since 2024
A new language analysis reveals how one telltale sentence pattern exposes companies that are letting ChatGPT handle their communications. Usage has…
OpenAI’s updated image generator can now pull information from the web
OpenAI is rolling out the latest version of its AI-powered image generator with new "thinking capabilities," allowing it to search the web to help it…
The Electromechanical Computer of the B-52’s Star Tracker
In the ages before convenient global positioning satellites to query for one’s current location military aircraft required dedicated navigators…
Roundtables: Unveiling The 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now
Listen to the session or watch below Watch a special edition of Roundtables simulcast live from EmTech AI, MIT Technology Review’s signature…
Meta will record employees’ keystrokes and use it to train its AI models
Meta says that it has a new internal tool that is converting mouse movements and button clicks into data that can train its AI models.
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Photocentric Expands Jeni System to Enable High-Volume Resin 3D Printing at Industrial Scale
If there ever was evidence that 3D print technology is ready for mass manufacturing, Photocentric just presented it. The post Photocentric Expands Jeni System to Enable High-Volume Resin 3D…
WHASER, a 3D printed device for capturing whale data in the field
While the Atlantic humpback whale has recovered from being on the brink of extinction in the mid 20th century, the species is still threatened by…
LUYTEN 3D and University of Wollongong develop Australia’s first submerged concrete 3D printing system
LUYTEN 3D, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Wollongong (UOW), has unveiled what the partners described as Australia’s…
3D Systems Launches SLA 825 Dual With Dual-Laser Technology
3D Systems just introduced a very interesting resin 3D printer, the SLA 825 Dual. The post 3D Systems Launches SLA 825 Dual With Dual-Laser Technology…
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