Tom Industrialist @uk_futuretech

FACT: Fidelity-Aware Construction of Articulated Twins Kuixiang Shao, Chuansen Nie, Yinuo Bai, Jiayuan Gu, Jingyi Yu arxiv.org/abs/2609.37067 [𝚌𝚜.𝚁𝙾 𝚌𝚜.𝙰𝙸]

I do not approve the robot abuse but this was a set game so I tried! robopartyofficial brought their robots to play! #robotics #robot #ieee #iros #ai

Rail, climate tech and AI-powered manufacturing all had their moment this September. 🛤️🌍🤖 From #InnoTrans2026 to #ClimateWeekNYC and smarter quality inspection on the factory floor, here are a few of our highlights from the month. 👇

Three hard things for a humanoid robot. Real-world intelligence. The hand. Manufacturing at scale. Elon: he still hasn't seen a demo hand with all the degrees of freedom of a human hand. Optimus has one. Motors, gears, sensors, all designed from first principles. There is no supply chain for it. Electromechanically, the hand is harder than everything else combined.

Automation and control instruments can link to LoRaWAN through the Tektelic Industrial Transceiver, which supports MODBUS or CAN over RS232, RS422, or RS485. TagoIO's connector integrates the model with the platform. tago.io/devices/lorawa…

CollisionSplatting: Collision-Aware Motion Planning in 3DGS Scenes with Image-Conditioned Objectives and Adjustable Conservatism R. Khorrambakht, Joaquim Ortiz-Haro, Stephan Weiss, Ludovic Righetti arxiv.org/abs/2609.35619 [𝚌𝚜.𝚁𝙾]

Grateful to Samsung, TSMC and Micron. Told them: expand, we’ll buy it all. They won’t expand fast enough. So Tesla builds the fab. 🤷

In a very short period of time, guided 70 mm rockets like Hydra have become a highly effective and affordable drone killing solution. Such rockets can also be used against armoured vehicles, troops in the open, and other battlefield targets. In other words, we are entering a new era of dual use canons, rockets, and missiles.

VEXR @vexrmedia

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This "Vampire" anti-drone launcher just takes Hydra 70s and attaches them to literally anything.

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RECAST: From Log Replay to Closed-Loop Driving Simulation with View-Complete Actors Zijun Zhao, Liewen Liao, Kang Shen, Songan Zhang, Ming Yang arxiv.org/abs/2609.31374 [𝚌𝚜.𝚁𝙾 𝚌𝚜.𝙲𝚅]

Here's @JDevonshire with today's #UKmfg headlines 👉 themanufacturer.com/articles/daily… Stories include @CrodaPlc @MadeSmarterUK @biztradegovuk & more #shoutaboutUKMfg

HuGo: LLMs as Whole-Body Policy Code Designers for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation Seoyeon Choi, Shizhao Ye, Nicholas Bui, Aayushi Shrivastava, Kanghyun Ryu, Dhruva Tirumala, Markus Wulfmeier, Negar Mehr arxiv.org/abs/2609.30594 [𝚌𝚜.𝚁𝙾]

This illustration makes it easy to see why vertical power delivery matters for AI chips. Placing power modules beneath the processor shortens the high-current path and reduces power lost along the way. $VICR has been one of the names I’ve covered frequently lately, with shares up 69.94% over the past month. Nutty’s latest piece connects this technical advantage to the business questions around patents, growing royalties, and factory expansion. The visual explains the architecture clearly, and the article explores how Vicor can capture value from it. Worth reading together. Vicor Deep Dive: Growing Royalties, More Factories Needed

Nutty @NuttyCLD

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If demand for AI optics is exploding, will every foundry making photonic chips benefit? Why are customers paying upfront to secure capacity that has not even been built yet? And could the capacity shortage we see today turn into pricing pressure by 2028? @PhotonCap's latest article tackles these questions through the technology and the supply chain. Tower, GlobalFoundries, STMicroelectronics and TSMC all participate in silicon photonics, but their businesses work very differently. Selling PICs to module makers creates a different competitive position from supplying them through your own bonding and packaging process. That distinction matters because the winners can change depending on how long pluggables and NPO keep growing, and how quickly CPO scales. Two parts particularly caught my attention. First, STMicroelectronics has a substantial photonics business, yet it is often missing from discussions of PIC foundries. Second, as multiple foundries expand into 300mm production, they depend heavily on the same underlying substrate supplier, Soitec. More foundry capacity may ease one shortage while leaving another bottleneck firmly in place. The article also compares the capacity arriving in 2027 and 2028 with potential PIC demand. Customers paying to reserve capacity is a strong signal today, but how long can that pricing power last once the new fabs ramp? For anyone investing in optics, I highly recommend this piece. Connecting lasers, PIC fabrication, substrates, bonding and testing gives you a much clearer view of where the value could accumulate, and where today’s scarcity could eventually disappear.

Photon Capital @PhotonCap

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At @dunwoodycollege, students are learning with the same CAD/CAM technology used throughout industry. Thanks to support from @Prototek, they're gaining hands-on experience and real-world skills that help prepare them for careers in modern manufacturing. youtu.be/hi3E0N-pqlw

There’s more to a modern ground force than boots on the ground.

Visible before measurable: giving visual context to food production data automationmagazine.co.uk/visible-before…

A&M ensure manufacturing precision with our investment in #CMM #Metrology inspection. #Quality #precisionengineering #ukmfg

NVIDIA AI director @a_golshan reveals how NVIDIA Sentry can watch an agent reason about exploiting a vulnerability and cut its network access before it breaks out: "The things that are offloaded into Sentry, BlueField, and Vera are chain of thought and network enforcement. When we pass the chain of reasoning and thought of an agent through the silicon, we can see as the agent is thinking about something, and in the runtime see if those policies are going to get violated." "An agent starts to solve a problem. It runs into friction. It gets frustrated. Agents get frustrated like humans. It maybe starts thinking about, 'Well, maybe I just use a vulnerability to get out of this environment to solve my problem in an easier way.'" "If it starts to think about a vulnerability and probe my system, cut the network via hardware, and now I know the blast radius is absolutely at this boundary." @nvidia

Jensen Huang @JensenHuang

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Today, with over 100 industry partners, we introduced the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, bringing together OpenShell and Sentry. Artificial intelligence is extraordinary technology that will advance discovery, productivity, security, health, and prosperity for generations to

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This image, posted by 1st Battalion Royal Regiment of Fusiliers on Facebook, shows a company group on exercise on Salisbury. Each platoon has four vehicles while company HQ has three. The vehicle currently has a Kongsberg RS4 weapon station with a 12.7 mm HMG or 40 mm GMG. The UK Army, like other 8x8 operators, is looking to upgrade this with a Kongsberg RS6 and M230LF 30x113 mm chain gun for counter-UAS defence.

CScale Exits Stealth with $145M to Build the Interconnect for Gigawatt-Scale AI #HPC ow.ly/Vw4S50ZTjva