Issue 124 - Robotics Github Library, the Ford Fathom, & Rangeview
Breaking the Bottleneck | 8/16/2026
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Issue 123 - Building a Robot Stack, How to Evaluate EDA Tools, & Gemini Robotics 2
Breaking the Bottleneck | 8/3/2026
The CAD File Is Not a Static Artifact Anymore
Industry Interviews | Jeff Kinder
Issue 122 - ASML's New High NA Machine and Generalist's New Multi End Effector Approach
Breaking the Bottleneck | 7/27/2026
Issue 121 - A State of Manufacturing Report, IEA Global Minerals Outlook, & Upkeep Learn!
Breaking the Bottleneck | 7/21/2026
UNS Only Solved Half the Problem
Industry Interviews | Travis Cox
2026 IMTS Investor and Innovation Summit
Breaking the Bottleneck | 7/8/2026
Issue 121 - Extreme Analysis Market Map with ThreadMoat
Breaking the Bottleneck | 6/29/2026
If You've Industrialized Bad Data, You Haven't Solved the Problem, You've Scaled It
Industry Interviews | Jane Arnold
Never Let the Technology Precede the Problem
Industry Interviews | Praveen Rao
Issue 120 - Autodesk + MaintainX, the Factory of the Future, and Aris Machina
Breaking the Bottleneck | 6/8/2026
C-Infinity: AI Is Accelerating Design Faster Than We Can Validate It
Startup Stories | Sai Netaluri
Diagon: How a Simple Spreadsheet Became the World's Most Comprehensive Equipment Marketplace
Startup Stories | Will Drewery
Issue 119 - Design and Simulation Market Map, A CPG Report, and Figure's Livestream
Breaking the Bottleneck | 5/18/2026
Scaling AI Agents Is Less About Building More Agents and More About Designing the System Around Them
Industry Interviews | Dayan Rodriguez
Issue 117 - Widespread Physical AI Adoption, Bosch's Agent Saves €850K Per Plant, and Continuous Physics Reasoning
Breaking the Bottleneck | 5/11/2026
Upkeep: Green Dashboards Don't Mean Your Plant Is Actually Running Better
Startup Stories | Ryan Chan
Issue 116 - The Stealth Manufacturing Boom?, Hannover Messe Highlights, and Google's Next-Gen TPU
Breaking the Bottleneck | 4/27/2026
Manufacturing Mythos
Breaking the Bottleneck | 4/24/2026
UnitX: Why Manufacturing Vision Is a Systems Problem, Not Just an AI Problem
Startup Stories | Keven Wang