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1 week ago | 
amtonline.org | Catherine Ross |Bonnie Gurney |Benjamin Moses |Stephen LaMarca
Corn-fed smartphone. Robot arms — in space! Sandvik acquires Verisurf. The harmony of art and technology. Fox 3… D “I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.” – Franz Kafka This is a published version of the AMT Tech Report newsletter. You can sign up to get the Tech Report in your inbox here. 1. Corn-Fed SmartphoneThe Liberty Phone, made by Purism, is a rare “Made in the USA” smartphone – and it costs $2,000.
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1 week ago | 
amtonline.org | Benjamin Moses |Stephen LaMarca |Bonnie Gurney
The Manufacturing Technology Series EAST brings together manufacturing professionals with exciting advancements to shape the future of the industry, May 13-15, 2025, in West Springfield, Massachusetts. Discover the future of East Coast manufacturing at The Manufacturing Technology Series EAST, featuring EASTEC, May 13–15, 2025, in West Springfield, Massachusetts.
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2 weeks ago | 
amtonline.org | Benjamin Moses |Stephen LaMarca
Episode 134: Steve and Ben share their observations, insights, and takeaways from ProMat2025. Stephen provides a testbed update and a realization that robot programming is easy… until you have to program the robot to physically interact with another thing.
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3 weeks ago | 
amtonline.org | Stephen LaMarca |Benjamin Moses
Innovating requires iterating. Bipedal robots. Are magnets life? Automation is a fast market. Security is for everyone. “Design is not a single object or dimension. Design is messy and complex." – Natasha Jen This is a published version of the AMT Tech Report newsletter. You can sign up to get the Tech Report in your inbox here. 1. Innovating Requires IteratingAnd AI is here to help.
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3 weeks ago | 
amtonline.org | Benjamin Moses |Stephen LaMarca
“It’s OK to get butterflies (in your stomach). You just got to get them into formation.” – Britt Lower’s high-school drama teacher This is a published version of the AMT Tech Report newsletter. You can sign up to get the Tech Report in your inbox here. 1. How Many Words Is a Picture Really Worth? PaLM-E is an AI that translates the real world by combining text, images, and sensor data (or, as some might say, “sensor fusion”) into a language-like format that a robot can understand.
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4 weeks ago | 
amtonline.org | Stephen LaMarca |Benjamin Moses |Cathy Ma
Episode 133: Elissa dives straight in with 3D printing 4D materials. The team voices their loathing of daylight savings. Steve wonders how it’s 2025 and hot dogs are still not the appropriate length with respect to the buns.
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1 month ago | 
amtonline.org | Christopher Chidzik |Catherine Ross |Benjamin Moses |Stephen LaMarca
I love manufacturing, and I love firearms manufacturing. And what better way is there to celebrate that love than at this past January's Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show 2025 in Las Vegas? Additive manufacturing (AM) is now firmly established in suppressor mass production, even playing nice with subtractive methods in a hybrid manufacturing process.
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1 month ago | 
amtonline.org | Stephen LaMarca |Catherine Ross |Benjamin Moses |Christopher Chidzik
Benjamin Franklin is remembered as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. Even in a time of many prominent thinkers, Franklin stood out as a prolific writer, inventor, statesman, and diplomat. Despite his accomplishments, Franklin’s formal education had ended by the age of 10, and he became an apprentice printer for his brother at 12. Nevertheless, for the remainder of his life, Franklin continued to seek knowledge through reading and conversations with acquaintances.
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1 month ago | 
amtonline.org | Stephen LaMarca |Benjamin Moses
“We now have experts able to go virtually anywhere at a moment’s notice to walk an engineer through a factory where there’s a problem to be solved.” – Barbara Humpton, president and CEO of Siemens USA This is a published version of the AMT Tech Report newsletter. You can sign up to get the Tech Report in your inbox here. 1.
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1 month ago | 
amtonline.org | Stephen LaMarca |Cathy Ma
The drape. The cream rises to the top. ML in photovoltaics. Toy production coming back stateside? Dashboard wine. “There can be 100 people in a room, and 99 don’t believe in you, and just one does. And that can change your whole life.” – Lady GagaThis is a published version of the AMT Tech Report newsletter. You can sign up to get the Tech Report in your inbox here. 1. The Drape When Gordon Murray waxed poetic about designing the McLaren F1, he said the bodywork was the last consideration.
