Olympic Metal

Episode 54: Ben and Steve get up to speed with the Tokyo Olympics. Stephen mentions two potentially aerospace-grade additive materials. Ben continues with the Army’s investment in next-gen materials research. Steve follows with cutting-edge consumer AVGs. Benjamin pivots to Intrinsic, Alphabet’s new industrial robot software company. Stephen adds with some info on an open-source reinforcement learning framework for robots. Ben closes a record low thermally conductive material. - https://www.tctmagazine.com/additive-manufacturing-3d-printing-news/polymer-additive-manufacturing-news/markforged-launches-aerospace-ready-composite-3d-printing-ma/ - https://www.army.mil/article/248731/army_invests_in_next_generation_materials_research - https://www.tomshardware.com/news/myavg-bot-packs-pi - https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/23/22590109/google-intrinsic-industrial-robotics-company-software - https://x.company/projects/intrinsic/ - https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/07/robo-gym-v1/ - https://physicsworld.com/a/new-material-breaks-low-thermal-conductivity-record/ For the latest in Manufacturing Technology news https://www.amtonline.org/resources