Breaking the Bottleneck | Issue 56
[9/3/2024] EXTENDED Edition: My Favorite Reads During Summer Break
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Content I Enjoyed The Last Month🏭🗞️🔬 📚
News:
Manufacturing & Design:
How LG and Samsung Are Making TV Screens Disappear [IEEE Spectrum]
Digital Technologies Are (Finally) Reinventing Machinery [IMD]
Can AI Delivery Fully Automated Factories [HBR]
X-Ray Upgrade Can See Transistors in 3D [IEEE Spectrum]
2024 Industrial AI Insights [Honeywell]
EVs / Clean Energy:
An Optimist’s Guide to the EV Battery Mining Challenge [Canary Media]
Delays Hit 40% of IRA Projects [FT]
The Energy Transition: Where Are We, Really? [McKinsey]
Samsung’s EV Battery Breakthrough [Interesting Engineering]
Robots:
New Technique Helps Robots Grasp the Unpredictable [Assembly]
Figure 02 Robot [IEEE Spectrum]
Google DeepMind Robot Table Tennis [Youtube]
Tesla’s Teleoperating Training for Humanoid Robots [Fortune]
Macro:
Mexico At a Crossroads: Is It Missing Out On Its Opportunity For Nearshoring? [Bain]
The U.S. Has Been Spending Billions to Revive Manufacturing. But China Is in Another League. [WSJ]
America’s Post-Covid Factory Boom Is Running Out of Steam [WSJ]
What Works in Taiwan Doesn’t Always in Arizona [NY Times]
Are US Manufacturing Jobs Worth Fighting For? [FT]
Longer Reads / Blogs:
How the Designer of the First Hydrogen Bomb Got the Gig [IEEE Spectrum]
Intel’s Immiseration [The Chip Letter]
How to Build a 50,000-Ton Forging Press [Construction Physics]
Interview w/ Shiv Trisal Databricks Manufacturing Lead [Industrial Engineering]
Engineering the First Fitbit [IEEE Spectrum]
Podcasts/Video:
What Happens When Manufacturing Goes Away [FT]
The EV Markets Awkward Teenage Years [Catalyst]
Planned Downtime 🏭🧑🔧
Serbia vs Team USA