Graduate Student’s NASA Robot Algorithm Solves Assembly Issue
Graduate student Sarah Downs built a force-based robot for NASA that inserts satellite antennas without cameras, solving peg-in-hole assembly in space.
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Chip Industry Week: High-NA EUV, Silicon Photonics, HBM4
Intel ships High-NA EUV Panther Lake processors, UMC delivers first silicon photonics wafers, JEDEC releases SPHBM4 standard for organic substrates.
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PLATON Camera Tracks Invisible Particles Using Light-Field AI
ETH Zurich's PLATON detector uses light-field cameras and AI to track particles in 3D, replacing millions of components with a single scintillator block.
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Electric Field Boosts Ceramic Heat Flow 300%
ORNL researchers tripled ceramic thermal conductivity using electric fields—a 300% gain that could enable switchable cooling in AI chips and power electronics.
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AI Cracks Water’s Two-Liquid Mystery Using Neural Networks
University of Osaka researchers used AI to evaluate 16 water structure descriptors, identifying the most effective methods to study supercooled water states.
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MIT FrED Educational Factory Expands to Mexico Campuses
MIT's FrED factory trains 500 students across three Mexico campuses using desktop manufacturing devices that generate Industry 4.0 data for AI and digital twins.
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Path Robotics AI Welding System Uses Real-Time Vision Guidance
Path Robotics uses AI and real-time vision to eliminate teach programming for welding. System handles 70-foot parts, deploys Spot quadruped for shipyards.
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Micron $3B Investment Secures Silicon Wafer Supply Chain
Micron invests $500M in GlobalWafers' Texas facility, securing 10-year wafer supply. Only U.S. CHIPS Act supplier producing advanced 300mm wafers domestically.
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White House Sets 2030 Deadline for Post-Quantum Crypto
Executive Order 14412 sets Dec 2030 deadline for federal post-quantum crypto. What manufacturers need to know about NIST standards and ICS vulnerabilities.
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Ford Rehires 350 Engineers After AI Quality Tools Fall Short
Ford rehired 350 engineers after AI quality checks failed. Autodesk commits $350M for AI training. Why automation needs veteran expertise to succeed.
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