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We sit down with Brittany Mays Ing, VP of Siemens Maritime, right after her US Senate testimony on “Less Hype, More Help” about AI and unpack what industrial AI looks like when you have to build real ships on real timelines. We connect digital twins, copilots, and the digital thread to the biggest constraint shipbuilders face today: talent, throughput, and first-time quality.  • Why Brittany gets...

We dig into SPAD photon-counting sensors and why converting photons into bits can change low-light imaging, motion blur, and dynamic range for real perception systems. We also connect the physics of uncertainty to modern AI so vision models stop guessing when the data is ambiguous.  • How SPAD arrays work and why they differ from CMOS image sensors  • Why SPAD data volume can reach terabytes and h...

Research by Ron reveals how AI (ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.) ignores conventional sources such as business to business publications and industry analysts, instead citing vendor pages, Reddit, resellers, and even mystery sites. Guidelines proposed on how AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) might work in practice.  Comparison reviews may be the clearest path to being sourced by answer engines Ron’s AEO resea...

We explore how purpose-built food assembly robots, computer vision, and better data can push restaurants beyond thin margins and burnout. We share what we learned by running a living-lab restaurant, why we paused it, and how we’re deploying the tech inside partner stores. • Origins in delivery work and engineering • Why restaurants lag in automation • Building a living-lab restaurant for rapid ite...

We unpack how 24M combines electrode-to-pack design, a fast, high-conductivity electrolyte, and a sensing separator to aim for thousand-mile range and safer batteries. The talk spans dendrites and thermal runaway, drone-ready shapes, long-duration storage, and real-world paths to scale and recycle. • ETOP packaging for higher energy density and custom shapes • Impervia separator that suppresses de...

We trace FIU’s early bet on AI, the rise of AI-ready engineering education, and why security research must outpace attackers. From LLM jailbreaks to drone resilience, we share how to validate tools, keep fundamentals strong, and deploy AI safely in the real world. • FIU’s AI strategy across engineering disciplines • Faculty journey from cybersecurity to AI-driven defense • Research strength, fundi...

We explore how smart glasses moved from bulky prototypes to practical tools, why waveguides make displays vanish into lenses, and how hybrid AI solves the offline problem. Dr. Chris Parkinson explains the tradeoffs between tethered and on-board compute, and where enterprise adoption is outpacing consumer demand. • Waveguides turning thin lenses into bright displays • Tethered glasses as lightweigh...

Eduardo Torrealba, founder and CEO of Lumafield, on how industrial CT gives engineers a safe, fast way to see inside products and make better decisions. He discusses LumaField’s approach to trials, safety, resolution and GD&T from scans. • Value of non‑destructive 3D inspection for complex assemblies • Differences between industrial and medical CT and how shielding works • Try‑before‑you‑buy a...

We talk to Fraser Patterson, CEO and founder of Skillit, about how digitizing skilled trade workers would affect hiring speed and quality, why construction jobs are resistant to AI displacement, and what new data reveals about women entering the trades and pay equity. Practical AI supports recruiters and workers without removing humans from high-stakes decisions. •Diagnosing labor shortage as an a...