Factory Signal Briefing — May 03, 2026
Advanced Manufacturing · 3D Printing · CNC · Robotics · AI Vision
News
Rosatom ships RusBeam 2800 electron beam 3D printer to India for aerospace use
Rosatom‘s Fuel Division has delivered its RusBeam 2800 industrial 3D printer to India, in a deal that marks the Russian state corporation’s entry into the Indian additive…
Why physical AI is the real manufacturing revolution
Physical AI promises to transform manufacturing, but only if robotics developers and integrators avoid hype and address real scaling challenges, writes Fictiv. The post Why physical AI is…
Closing the latency gap: Why physical AI requires edge-first architectures
Madhu Gaganam, founder and CEO of Cogniedge.ai, said the industry’s shift toward true cobots demands more than safer cages or slower speeds. The post Closing the latency gap: Why physical AI…
Three-Axis Camera Slider From 3D Printer Parts
There’s a great reason 3D printers are made with things like extruded aluminum rails and other commodity, off-the-shelf parts. These things are designed not only for ease of…
Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web
Hi HN, author here. SHARP is Apple's recent single-image 3D Gaussian splatting model ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10685 ). Their reference code is PyTorch + a pretty heavy pipeline; I wanted…
Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Stomp-Reactive Light Up Slippers & More
ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UP We’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered. Each week we’ll be posting a handy…
Xiaomi's open-weight MiMo-V2.5-Pro takes aim at Claude Opus with hours-long autonomous coding
Xiaomi's new MiMo-V2.5-Pro nearly matches Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 on coding benchmarks while burning 40 to 60 percent fewer tokens, according to the company. The release pushes Xiaomi…
How the internet’s favorite squirrel dad made the hottest camera app of 2026
It's not hyperbole to call DualShot Recorder an overnight sensation. It took only 12 hours from the time it was released to hit number one on the App Store's list of top paid apps. It was a…
Who’s The Biggest In 3D Printing, May 3, 2026
Once again we take a look at the valuations of the major 3D printing companies over the past week. The post Who’s The Biggest In 3D Printing, May 3, 2026 appeared on Fabbaloo .
Firestorm Labs secures $82 million Series B to scale forward-deployed manufacturing platform
Firestorm Labs, a defense technology company focused on producing combat systems, has raised $82 million in Series B funding, bringing its total capital raised to $153 million. The round was…
Same prompt, different morals: how frontier AI models diverge on ethical dilemmas
A new benchmark puts leading language models through 100 everyday ethical scenarios, from data misuse in sales to protocol violations in oncology. Behind the results lies a bigger question…
Wooden cylinder
Score 10 · 6 comments
Had to use three different machines just to make a simple wooden cylinder. Used Mini metal lathe to make new faceplate for the wood lathe. I had originally used the version that came with…
I made a free parametric clock face designer that exports SVG — laser engraving, 3D printing, CNC, vinyl cutting, waterjet, embroidery, and more
Score 1 · 4 comments
Hey everyone! I built a browser-based clock face designer that generates clean SVG files you can take straight into your workflow. It's free, no account needed, and runs entirely in your…
I made a free parametric clock face designer that exports SVG — laser engraving, 3D printing, CNC, vinyl cutting, waterjet, embroidery, and more
Score 4 · 7 comments
Hey everyone! I built a browser-based clock face designer that generates clean SVG files you can take straight into your workflow. It's free, no account needed, and runs entirely in your…
Ufactory Xarm 6 robotic arm, linear motor and accessories for sale
Score 1 · 0 comments
Ufactory Xarm 6 robotic arm, linear motor and accessories for sale
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Free 48h — Precision STEP files for CNC and 3D printer builders (MGN rails, NEMA motors, ballscrews) — looking for honest feedback
Score 0 · 0 comments
Hello everybody, I've been building a catalog of high-precision mechanical CAD files verified against official manufacturer datasheets — MGN12 rails, NEMA 17 motors, SFU1605 ballscrews…
[Update] Raspberry Pi HAT Air Sensor - Fab and Compensation
Score 3 · 1 comments
Two weeks ago, I posted [v1 of my air quality Pi HAT](https://www.reddit.com/r/PrintedCircuitBoard/comments/1sq4dkf/review_request_air_quality_raspberry_pi_hat/). The top piece of feedback…
3D Stigma
Score 300 · 199 comments
Absolutely heartbroken, I did a pretty big vendor event where I was lectured by the host about not being allowed to have 3D printed items because it’s not “handmade”. I didn’t see in the…
3D-printed Spiny Softshell
Score 343 · 14 comments
This is probably the biggest/coolest animal model I've developed so far. She's a large female Spiny Softshell turtle with a shell length of 48cm. She is composed of 7 printed sections…
YouTube
Grinding Aluminum the RIGHT Way
121108 · N/A
📝 **Transcript Preview:** Which wheel would you use to grind aluminum? >> [music] [music]
NVIDIA's New AI Turns One Photo Into A World That Never Breaks
20873 · N/A
📝 **Transcript Preview:** I can’t believe that we are getting this for free. What is this? Well, hold on to your papers Fellow Scholars because you take just one image, and it creates a 3D…