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Inside our battery pack manufacturing line. Designed for aviation.... Built for scale.show more

Inside our Solar Array Manufacturing Center in Sunnyvale, advanced... robotics, precision manufacturing and skilled technicians are redefining how high-performance solar arrays are built for space.show more

Don’t worry CO, none of the HALF A TRILLION... DOLLARS worth of AI computing systems NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang revealed for manufacturing inside the United States of America,will come here. CO Dems will continue to drive away the trillions of investments coming in for manufacturing. Meaning no new jobs or better pay. Vote Red 🔴 this Nov if you want prosperity!show more

You can’t convince me there isnt a Lab somewhere... where they are manufacturing Nicki Minaj clones and putting them into the world. this looks like she was born in a laboratory inside of Onika Universityshow more

Last month Anker recalled over one million power banks... due to an unspecified battery manufacturing issue. We CT scanned 3 recalled power banks and 2 that weren’t recalled to see what’s going on inside. Here’s what we found…show more

WATCH🚨🚨 Videos from inside the suspected multi-million-rand Mandrax manufacturing... laboratory in Krugersdorp, Gauteng, after SAPS Crime Intelligence and the Hawks raided the farm this morning. Police found quantities of Mandrax and ecstasy tablets and arrested five South African nationals.show more

Open source hardware is booming 🔥 We are proud... of developing Quiver - our open-source, 25kg MTOW modular quadcopter platform for developers and operators. It comes with: - BOM ✅ - Manufacturing Guide ✅ - Harnessing Guide ✅ - PCB Assembly Guide ✅ - Operator Guide ✅ Take a look inside, everything is built in the open and transparent Repo: Docs:show more

WATCH: President Trump jokes about the packed crowd and... hot temperatures inside a manufacturing facility in Michigan, saying that giving speeches in the heat helps him stay in shape. "It is a little warm up here, but I love that because every time I make a speech, I lose weight. It's wonderful. It's a wonderful way to lose weight."show more

China now operates over 1,000 industrial grasshopper farms that... mass-produce hundreds of millions of insects annually. Inside large greenhouses, these locusts are bred and harvested in 35 days for deep-fried snacks, commercial protein powders, animal feed, and traditional skin remedies. This aggressive scaling of insect farming is rapidly expanding across rural provinces to meet commercial manufacturing and agricultural supply demands.show more

Polymorphic moulding: a manufacturing method that forms parts using... a grid of computer-controlled pins: Each pin can move up or down independently, so together they shape a surface that acts like a custom mould. Instead of building a fixed mould for every product, the machine quickly repositions the pins to match a new digital model. This means a mould can be created in minutes, used, and then reshaped again for the next design. Because the hardware stays the same and only its configuration changes: > no permanent tooling is needed > very little material is wasted > setup time between products is minimal The system essentially turns mould making into a programmable process. Engineers send a design file, the pins form the mould geometry, and the material is cast or formed inside it. Especially useful for rapid prototyping and customised manufacturing, where many different shapes must be produced in small quantities without rebuilding tools each time. Credit: ---- Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free:show more

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝟯𝗗 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗮𝘆 𝗯𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴... 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗿. We tend to think manufacturing begins after something has been designed. But the manufacturing method influences the design long before production starts, because designers naturally avoid shapes that are slow, fragile, or almost impossible to make. Rapid Liquid Printing changes that equation. By printing industrial materials inside a gel suspension, it can create soft, customized forms without requiring every shape to rise from a flat build plate. What interests me is not simply that the printer may work faster. It is that removing a physical constraint expands the designer’s imagination. Suddenly, products such as flexible seals, medical components, wearables, soft robotic surfaces, and customized elastomer parts can be reconsidered from the beginning. 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴. This is the question manufacturers should ask about emerging technology: which products have we dismissed simply because the old process made them impractical? What would your industry redesign if gravity and scaffolding were no longer part of the brief? #AdditiveManufacturing #AdvancedManufacturing #IndustrialDesign #AutomationExperienceAdvantageshow more

❗️❗️🇺🇦Ukraine is on the verge of an unprecedented military... manufacturing leap, with domestic production of Patriot air defense missiles poised to launch within a matter of mere weeks. Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz revealed that Ukraine is fast-tracking a highly classified tech-transfer initiative to assemble these sophisticated interceptors directly on its soil. Poland—one of only four NATO nations authorized by Washington to handle elite Patriot manufacturing and maintenance technologies—is actively partnering with Kyiv to establish the localized production lines. To bridge the critical gap before the assembly lines go live, Warsaw has also delivered five high-end PAC-3 interceptors from its own stockpiles at the urgent request of NATO leadership, a move the minister stressed pushed Poland's current donation capacity to its absolute limit without compromising its own airspace. This rapid industrial mobilization shatters the timeline of traditional military bureaucracy and represents a monumental shift for European security. By bypassing standard logistical bottlenecks and anchoring Patriot production inside a combat zone, Ukraine and its closest NATO allies are creating an unbreakable logistical fortress that fundamentally undermines Russia's strategy of exhausting Ukrainian air defenses.show more

❗️❗️🇺🇦Ukraine is about to shatter Russia’s final illusion of... safety with its own homegrown ballistic missile, and the Kremlin is completely defenseless against what is coming this autumn. Ukrainian defense startup Fire Point is on the absolute precipice of a historic military breakthrough. Co-founder and designer Denys Shtylerman confirmed that only a single engine test stands between Ukraine and its first operational, domestically produced ballistic missile. Once this final milestone is cleared, flight testing begins immediately, with plans to combat-test the weapon directly inside Russian territory by autumn 2026. This marks a devastating strategic shift that permanently alters the geometry of the war. By manufacturing its own ballistic arsenal, Ukraine completely bypasses Western restrictions on long-range strikes, creating an independent deterrent that leaves Russia's deep rear totally exposed and dooms Moscow's critical military infrastructure to an inevitable, unprotected beating.show more

What if your next dress wasn’t shipped to the... store… but manufactured inside it? 👗🤖 This futuristic fashion system imagines robotics producing garments directly from a digital design — shaping, tensioning and assembling fabric around the final silhouette in real time. If technologies like this mature, fashion could move from mass production toward on-demand, localized and highly personalized manufacturing. That could completely change inventory, customization and even the meaning of a “fashion store.” Would you wear a dress made this way? 👀 #FashionTech #Robotics #AI #IoT #5G #FutureTech #Innovation #Tech Cc: Jean-Baptiste Lefevre Nicolas Babin Pinna Pierre Rosy Eric Gaubert Yann Marchand Eveline Ruehlin Franco Ronconi 🇮🇹 Dev Khanna Dr. Khulood Almani | د.خلود المانع Dr. Marcell Vollmer #StaySafe #CES2026 Joanne Moretti. Margaret🌴Siegien 🐦📷 Shi💙 Anand Narang Elitsa Krumova Harold Sinnott 📱 BusinessIntelligence Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer Hana Sen. Sally Eaves Spiros Margaris ipfconline Laurent Alaus Mack Jeff KAGAN Industry Analyst, Strategic Advisor Andres Vilariño 🇪🇦 Dr Efi Pylarinou Françoise Morvan MHcommunicate #Mastodon👉@mhcommunicate@social JC Gaillard Archon Security Jola Burnett Jérôme MONANGE  Mary Gambara Dr Stephen Harwood #Tech4Good #SDG 🇵🇱#CES2026 Elinor Stutz Fati Sule Dr. Debashis Dutta Dinis Guarda Devaang Bhatt Terence Mills Tony Moroney #DigitalTransformation Michèle Drechsler Marsha Collier Avrohom Gottheil Randy/Deanna-OlderGeeks.com Neville Gaunt 💡💡💡 Pam Moore arlene newbiggingshow more

i'm not fine after reading this a guy with... a laptop got his own silicon chip manufactured with software Google gave away. the commercial version of that software rents for up to $1,000,000 a year. he never signed a vendor contract and never paid for a seat. he wrote the logic, pushed it to GitHub, and nine months later a wafer came out of a fab. getting silicon with your name in it used to take a company. now it takes nine months. his slot was 160 by 100 microns: about 1,000 logic gates, 8 inputs, 8 outputs, clocked past 50 MHz. more than 600 designs have already come back this way. this is the open silicon stack. Google and SkyWater published a complete 130nm manufacturing process, DARPA funded the software that turns code into a fab-ready file, and all of it sits in public repositories. turns out the whole flow fits in a git push: - write the logic in Verilog, or drag gates around in a browser if you have never done this - push to GitHub, an action runs synthesis, placement, routing and sign-off on the commit - OpenROAD finishes place-and-route with no human in the loop, code to fab file inside 24 hours - SKY130 carries the fab's real design rules, so passing the checks means it is manufacturable - a few hundred designs share one wafer, which is the only reason a person can afford the masks nobody puts this part in the thread: 130nm is roughly where the industry stood in 2001, and you wait six to nine months for silicon. this does not get you a GPU. it gets you a real object with your logic inside it. bookmark this. the video is one of those designs opened layer by layer, and every rectangle in it exists in the file that was sent to the fab.show more

🚨 SOUTH KOREAN SCIENTISTS JUST CREATED HOLLOW SILICON NANOTUBES... THAT TRAP HEAT AND TURN WASTE ENERGY INTO ELECTRICITY. Researchers at POSTECH have developed a new hollow silicon nanotube structure that dramatically reduces thermal conductivity. By turning solid nanowires into microscopic pipes, they trapped heat-carrying particles (phonons) inside the tubes, cutting thermal conductivity by 70% compared to solid wires. Even when both structures had the same surface area, the hollow nanotubes still ran 33% cooler. This phonon localization effect previously thought to require extreme cold or exotic materials was achieved at near-room temperature using simple silicon nanotubes. Why this matters: • Waste heat from data centers, EV batteries, factories, and electronics is currently lost this could capture and convert it into usable electricity • The technology uses abundant, cheap silicon instead of rare and expensive materials like bismuth and tellurium • It’s highly compatible with existing semiconductor manufacturing, making large-scale production more realistic • It solves a long-standing problem: silicon is great for chips but terrible for thermoelectric energy conversion The deeper implication: This breakthrough shows that clever nanoscale engineering can unlock new capabilities from ordinary materials. By controlling how heat moves at the atomic level, researchers are opening a path to more efficient energy recovery systems without relying on scarce resources. As AI and computing power keep growing, finding ways to recycle the massive amounts of waste heat they generate will become increasingly important. How significant do you think waste-heat recovery technologies like this could become in the next decade? Follow for more frontier materials science and energy innovation.show more

Tesla cut its Gigacasting processing time from 180 seconds... to 75 seconds — nearly 60% faster 🌊 The Model Y Juniper rear casting now weighs approximately 60 kg, down from 67 kg on the previous generation. Much of the industry conversation centers on press size and tonnage. The concrete gains in speed and mass on this high-volume part come from targeted process refinements inside the die and across the production system. -> Processing time reduced from 180s to 75s on the rear casting -> Part weight lowered by 7 kg through incremental design improvements -> Faster cycle achieved while improving microstructure and mechanical properties Conformal cooling makes the difference. Complex water channels, drilled or through 3D-printed inserts directly into the die steel, target hot spots and pull heat out rapidly and evenly across the entire casting. This accelerates solidification, reduces temperature gradients, and allows the part to be ejected sooner without defects. The result is a casting that is both lighter and stronger, produced in less than half the time. Supporting elements include advanced software that controls every injection parameter and runner/gate designs refined through five years of iteration since 2020 + close collaboration among casting designers, die engineers, production, and safety teams running high-volume lines on three continents. Tesla’s manufacturing edge is not the Giga Press hardware itself. It is the accumulated knowledge of how to run these machines at scale. 📊 The Gigacasting Database gives you the full picture of the market: Credit: Atomic Industries - Aaron Slodov ❌ Don't leave your insights to chance with the X algorithm ✅ Subscribe for free to my weekly newsletter about all things Gigacasting and magnesium Thixomolding: 📬show more