manufacturing

Linus Ekenstam shares his belief that China leads the West in high-tech robotics manufacturing, predicts increased robot purchases by 2027, and notes that his kids will grow up as robot mechanics.

A new report finds that Chinese manufacturers account for 97% of global humanoid robot shipments, underscoring China's dominance in the emerging robotics market.

SpaceX and Tesla announced a joint AI chip manufacturing plant called Terafab in Grimes, Texas, expected to become the world's largest building, producing chips for edge computing, inference, robotics, and space data centers.

Elon Musk says Tesla's Terafab will be an incredibly inspiring place to work, similar to Starbase and existing Tesla factories.

A tweet highlights the massive scale of Tesla's planned Terafab facility, comparing it to Giga Texas, the Pentagon, Apple Park, and the Mall of America, noting it will be the largest building ever built.

This paper presents an equipment-centric framework that uses deep learning-based vision and event-driven finite state machines to localize workpieces in hot forging factories, achieving high detection accuracy and low latency in operational settings.

Elon Musk says Tesla's Terafab chip factory looks like a sci-fi city, highlighting the scale and ambition of the project.

Elon Musk tweets 'Terafab' with a link, likely referring to a next-generation terawatt-scale manufacturing facility for batteries or energy production.

Elon Musk announces that Terafab Texas will be the largest and most valuable building on Earth, describing it as stunningly beautiful.

A long-form essay exploring the history and character of the German Mittelstand, using the story of Michael Thonet and his mass-produced Chair Nr. 14 as a lens into craftsmanship and industrial innovation.

Elon Musk announces that Tesla Megapack 3 has started production at the new Megafactory in Brookshire, Texas, which reached operation in just 16 months with a 50 GWh/year capacity.

Backflip AI unveils a second-generation AI model that turns physical parts into native parametric CAD models in minutes for about $10, drastically reducing the cost and time of reverse engineering and aiming to digitize entire factories.

Tesla's Shanghai factory is booming as an export hub, but weak domestic Chinese sales and geopolitical pressures are raising questions about how long China will remain central to Tesla's strategy, with reports of a possible separation of its Chinese operations.

SpaceX has paid Grimes County $10 million ahead of schedule under its Terafab tax agreement, a major step for the proposed project.

Ati Robotics, an India-based startup, built robots with minimal Chinese parts in response to US regulatory bans on Chinese-made robots. Founder Saurabh Chandra discusses their supply chain strategy, cost advantages, and upcoming humanoid robot.

Tesla celebrates producing its 10 millionth vehicle globally at the Fremont Factory, just six years after reaching 1 million.

Anduril's first YFQ-44A autonomous aircraft has rolled off the production line at its Arsenal-1 facility in Ohio, marking a milestone in the US Air Force's Collaborative Combat Aircraft program.

Wistron's early partnership with Nvidia propelled it from a low-margin PC and smartphone maker to a key AI server manufacturer, doubling revenue to $70.2 billion in 2025 and making it the biggest riser on the Fortune Global 500.

Bunnie Huang takes readers inside a USB memory stick factory, showing the manual and semi-automated processes of chip screening, bare-die placement, and wire bonding.

Altana CEO Evan Smith discusses how tariffs have not brought manufacturing jobs back to the US, the chaos in global trade, and how AI is transforming supply chain software.