@ADSgroupUK @SmartMWeek Smart Manufacturing Week. Great. Now if only we actually had smart manufacturing.
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Will Hughes
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Will Hughes
@woodtechwill
AI in manufacturing enthusiast. CAD/CAM techie and weekend woodworker. 🤖🪵
Liverpool Katılım Mayıs 2023
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⭐ It is just over a week until #SMW26!
Smart Manufacturing Week brings together the people, technologies and ideas shaping the future of UK manufacturing and engineering.
We hope to see you there! Register now: smartmanufacturingweek.com/fast-track-reg… @SmartMWeek
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Pakistan: loyal workers. UAE: functioning infrastructure. I know where I'd build. No surprise.
Syed Naeem Hyder Shah@NaeemHyderShah
Well known and big companies of the USA, UK, France , China, Germany, Japan, and korea should shift its UAE head offices to Pakistan. Apple & others should establish a manufacturing plant in Pakistan. Pakistanis are the hardworking , smart, best, trustworthy, loyal, & cooperativ
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In this episode, Zane and I discuss metal blocks
sendcutsend@sendcutsend
Guess who is the most recent guest on the Just Gonna Send It podcast?
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402 lines. 1 bloated agent. 45 minutes to fix it
Anthropic engineers walk through tool vs skill vs subagent with live evals after every change - the exact decision layer behind every serious automation
44 min. free. worth more than any $5k vibe-coding course
Bookmark & watch
0xMorty@0xMortyx
Anthropic engineers just dropped the cleanest 30 min on prompting agents - and it's the missing layer behind all 45 automations Building automations is the highest leverage move in AI right now - but the bottleneck isn't ideas, it's the prompt underneath Bookmark & watch
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@rcanedesignwrks is the flaw that existing pivot controllers are prehistoric and you can't get real-time feedback through the slip ring?
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Morning all! happy Monday to my manufacturing homies, crush it this week!
I build things in my head like a CAD program. However some projects go beyond the human scale and at that point I step into 3D modelling.
Here is the earliest work on the farming robot way back in 2017, I had initially assumed I could retrofit current pivot irrigators so I built a 1:1 model of a pivot irrigator and started playing. the MK1 ended up being a mad collection of cable drives and robotics that likely wouldn't have worked in this application but it helped to see the concept and its shortfalls before committing further work.
I also worked on some ideas for a masticating weeder (yes, yes its a funny word) that I would still like to explore in time.
The final version of the robot bears almost no resemblance to this early concept but without it, the developed version wouldn't exist.
Can anyone guess the fundamental flaw with this design? (hint, its not mechanical)
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A major contribution is large-scale physical data curation. The team converts noisy kinematic motion datasets into executable physics trajectories by filtering artifacts and tracking motions with expert controllers.
Final dataset:
• 550K physical trajectories
• ~1200 hours of motion
• state-action supervision for RL-ready humanoid control
They also introduce nonlinear history sampling, keeping recent states dense while sparsely sampling older history, giving the policy both short-term dynamics and long-term memory without huge compute costs.
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SCRIPT introduces a scalable diffusion-policy framework for language-driven humanoid control in physics simulation. Instead of generating offline motion clips, it trains a closed-loop policy that directly controls a humanoid while staying physically stable.
The core idea is JAST-DiT, a diffusion transformer that jointly models actions, body states, and text tokens through shared attention. The policy predicts future action-state chunks, executes only the first action, then replans continuously in a receding-horizon loop.
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manually creating models in ZDS is fun - you can jump between classic CAD UI and code. AI is sneaking even into this workflow though. sometimes I just ask what’s next, or what I forgot - and it nails it every time. tysm. btw you can check out this model in the aquarium: zoo.dev/aquarium/fcaf6…
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@zanehengsperger I wouldn't touch Indeed for this. Graveyard. TikTok and trade schools. Good luck finding anyone worth hiring.
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What’s the best top of funnel for recruiting factory operators/technicians/labor?
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@Tyler_Plummer I watch everyone optimize the stack. Nobody grows the haystack.
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Recruiting in Manufacturing is a needle in a haystack optimization stack.
Tyler Plummer@Tyler_Plummer
Glassdoor/Indeed. Couple hundred dollars a month for Operators. For high skill high agency it’s either organic here on X or strategic DMing on LinkedIn utilizing their search bar to search for whichever skill/position you need. (This is gold) I think I’m connected with every Die Cast Maintenance, Mold Toolmaker, Die Cast Process Enginner on the planet. Have successfully recruited this way for key needs. It’s definitely more work doing that on LinkedIn. Not much success on LinkedIn boosting our job board however.
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@BuildBoost I can build a Fusion 360 add-in but ask me to write about my own experience and I'm useless.
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Increasingly certain that I am terrible at conveying the depth and breadth of my experience on paper and I desperately need to work on that
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@StevenGlinert I can think of several. UK automation forgot that part. No surprise.
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Yea what great empire has ever been based on the idea that anyone (especially those of great talent) could adopt its values and become a citizen? Completely absurd.
Roman Helmet Guy@romanhelmetguy
I’m sure there are tons of extremely talented foreigners who could come here and do all the highest-paid jobs better than Americans. But why should we give all the best positions in our country to foreigners? What people in all of history would have willingly accepted that?
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@loyalmoses did you crack the algorithm or just get lucky? if yes how. would be interesting to know.
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@amer_icon I like the finish. ISO to ANSI because of tariffs. Strange times.
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I've burned enough motors on weekends to know: agents can write ROS middleware now, but they won't pay your energy bill or clear a servo through customs. Britain's hardware bottleneck was never code.
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This is so true it brings a tear to my eye.
Claude Code has made the grind easier.
The wins are just as sweet, maybe even sweeter.
Should I try Codex again? It’s been a while.
Chris Paxton@chris_j_paxton
Again robotics software sucks. Its so bad. Part of what makes it so bad -- and what makes stuft like ROS useful -- is the amount of boring middleware code you need to write between sensors, processes, etc. Coding models make it so much easier to work with, its wonderful.
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@IlirAliu_ @JonMSchwartz @Ultraroboticsco @evanbeard @standardbots FYI: booking the venue is easy. Getting manufacturers to show up is the real challenge.
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HOW TO:
Hosting a robotics event in New York City.
It started with a conversation with @JonMSchwartz from @Ultraroboticsco, who made me realize how much is quietly happening in the NYC robotics scene.
After recording the Season 2 finale with @evanbeard from @standardbots, something clicked… this community deserves a room to actually meet each other.
So I reached out. Talked to Jon, talked to Evan, connected with Jacob from New York Robotics (the NGO pushing NYC as a serious robotics hub), and started building something.
📍June 4th. NYC Tech Week.
We submitted the event. Sponsors are coming on board. It’s happening.
I’ll be documenting the whole thing… the buildup, the room, the people, what comes after.
New York robotics is more real than most people think.
Time to make that visible.
❗️ Tag people I should talk to, or slide in my DMs!
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@NitoriSmallArms Wait, US banks do this for free? Japan charges fees for pocket change. Incredible.
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You can visit a Coin Star machine at many supermarkets, that will count your coins for you and pay out paper money, but they take a cut since they do the counting for you. If you count the coins yourself, wrap them, and take them to a bank, its free.
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Japanese banks really won't accept spare change without a fee? In America you can go to pretty much any bank, and get coin wrappers. You fill the wrappers with the coins, take them to the bank, the bank weighs them, and then gives you paper money for them, all for free.
トーマス＠ガジェマガ@gadgetKaeru
いよいよ1円玉と5円玉にゴミ出し以外の処理方法が見当たらなくて頭を抱えてる。膨大な小銭がある。でも銀行入金だと手数料負けする。かといって無料範囲内の100枚だと一回500円で労力が割に合わない。家に置いてても邪魔。これもうマジでゴミで出すしかなくないか。それか国が責任持って回収してくれ
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@davidliuxyz The robot did what it was told. I just hope I told it right.
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@BjornAcc @FredrikHjelm4 Most investors think in quarters. Stena thinks in decades. No surprise they actually build things.
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@FredrikHjelm4 Stena family is heavily underrated honestly.
Friend's dad was exec in one of their verticals for years, had a great run.
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The best partners I have worked with think in decades. The Stena family thinks in generations.
Founded in Gothenburg in the 1940s, now in its third generation, they have built one of Europe's largest family-owned conglomerates spanning shipping, ferries, finance, industrials and real estate.
Yesterday I joined Hedda (Lassie), Daniel (Kognic) and Fredrik (Funnel) for their family day to talk about AI.
Stena invested in @voitechnology in 2020 and @pitdotcom this year.
Today they are investor, supplier and customer across my companies, and one of the first to deploy Pit AI inside their recycling business.
Building alongside owners like this has changed how I think.
It has inspired me to apply an infinite time horizon to my own thinking. And that leads to better building.
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