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In this episode of the @mtdcnc Podcast, Alex Taylor of @CTPELtd explains how using #PSLDatatrack has transformed CTPE's quoting, costing and job tracking processes - helping the business grow while maintaining ISO 9001 accreditation 📈
Worth a listen: bit.ly/3V7JCCQ
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AI data centers are fueling optical fiber demand, with a global supply shortfall of 180 million fiber-kilometers expected in 2026. As spot prices rise, how will chipmakers and telecom operators respond?💡More analysis from #TrendForce: buff.ly/t1YfYXp 🔗
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Why the wider MCU market matters
#MCUmarket #SupplyChain #AutomotiveElectronics #SemiconductorShortage
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: A robot is now harvesting iceberg lettuce at speeds comparable to human crews.
@SamiRobotics has demonstrated what it says is one of the world's first autonomous iceberg lettuce harvests at @reservoirfarms.
The startup is building a multifunctional robotic platform designed to automate multiple agricultural operations, starting with harvesting crops such as broccoli, romaine lettuce, artichokes, and cauliflower, with plans to expand into weeding, thinning, fertilizing, and pest control.
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The first edition of HI!-PLASTICS, organised by AIMPLAS and held over two days in Valencia, Spain, brought together specialists from across the value chain to analyse developments in composite materials, fire resistance, and related topics. aimplas.es/
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$SIVE is off to a solid start today.
Still, I find it interesting how often it opens sharply higher, looks ready for a breakout, and then gets pushed back down during the first few hours of trading.
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After validating the approach against established asteroid-deflection models, researchers used Spheral to study three complex disruption scenarios.
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NEW MODEL: Google enters the in-context prompting race!
Gemini 4 Argon is Google's latest frontier model, offered through the Interactions API in AI Studio, the paid Gemini API tier and Antigravity.
The robotics claim attached to the launch is a pipeline Google calls Video-to-Sim-to-Real: Argon watches a video of a person doing a task, reconstructs the room and the objects in it as a MuJoCo scene, writes Python that generates and tests candidate motions inside that scene, then runs the result on hardware.
The launch demo is cornhole, the beanbag-into-a-hole lawn game, on Apptronik's Apollo humanoid.
Google claims the loop compresses weeks of manual simulation modeling into a few hours.
What i find interesting is that the video Argon learned from was shot by the robot.
The operator's prompt is legible on screen in the console, the telemetry panel labels the reference footage, and a log line records the details.
So the input is an egocentric capture the robot took of a colleague standing in its own lab, next to the board it was about to throw at, from a head camera whose extrinsics the system already knows.
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Garmin Autoland has reached 2,500 equipped aircraft, expanding from its initial 2020 certification to more than 15 aircraft models.
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Sigmatek CP 401 and CP 511: CRA-Ready CPUs for S-DIAS
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The CP 401 and CP 511 are built on the company’s EDGE3 technology giving machine builders a compact controller platform designed with the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) in mind.
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Hydrogen catalyst improves durability while reducing precious metal content. bit.ly/4k49U3b
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Peptide ligands that bind a CAR’s antigen-recognition domain could activate CAR-expressing cells as an immunomodulatory approach.
#MIT patent application #US20260315616 #Immunotherapy
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Orion has launched PRINTEX chroma 450 BEADS, a high-jetness carbon black designed for engineered plastics. The material, which has EU food-contact approval, is produced at Orion’s ISCC PLUS-certified plant in Cologne, Germany. orioncarbons.com/orion-s-a-l…
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⚙️Two grooves. ONE pass👀
Who said grooving has to mean multiple passes?
Watch a special TungMeister head machine two small grooves simultaneously in a SUS304 stainless steel tube sheet! 🔩
Cutting conditions:
• Material: SUS304 / 304 stainless steel
• Cutting speed: 150 m/min
• Feed: 0.03 mm/tooth
• Groove depth: 0.5 mm
• Tool diameter: Ø13 mm
• Machine: BT40
💡 Sometimes, rethinking the tool geometry can simplify the entire operation!
💬 Machinists, have you ever combined multiple features into a single machining pass?
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#CNC #Grooving #Milling #StainlessSteel #Machining #Engineering #CuttingTools #Manufacturing
i added the thighs. but i'm just messing around here, moots. shaping brackets to connect motors is only like 10% of building a robot. an mcu could go in the head i guess but this doesn't have space for a battery anywhere. and these servos aren't really strong
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If you use AI to avoid thinking, you are going in the wrong direction. Use it to become more capable without giving up your judgment.
AI can expand what you can examine and imagine.
Let that additional capacity make you more curious, not more passive.
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Saving time on routine tasks is useful, but accepting an AI output as a decision already made is another matter.
Consider a team redesigning a customer service process. AI can examine patterns across many requests and suggest alternatives the team might not have considered.
Good. Now you have more to evaluate.
One proposal may reduce waiting times while making it harder for some customers to speak with a person.
Would you accept that compromise?
Ask AI to help examine the consequences, too. Then decide what better service means and which alternative to pursue. The responsibility for the outcome remains with people.
#AIAugmentation #HumanCenteredAI
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Now that this is live, having this data set as the backbone for all our reports and analysis is a super power.
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