Megathread covering physical robotics across manufacturing arms, humanoids, and other machines to assist with object design and engineering

Megathread covering South American object makers covering architecture, industrial design, and product design. Format should follow Name Credentials: From: Based: Discipline: Website: Instagram: X: Other Links: At least 1 image

Google Gemma 4 Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/collections/google/gemma-4 GitHub: https://github.com/google-gemma Website: https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/core Announcement: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemma-4/, https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-gemma-4-12B/ Developer: Google DeepMind Released: 26B A4B and 31B: April 2026 / 12B Unified: June 2026 Variants: 12B Unified, 26B A4B, 31B Parameters: 12B Unified: 11.95B / 26B A4B: 25.2B total, 3.8B active / 31B: 30.7B Context: 256,000 tokens Architecture: 31B: Dense / 26B A4B: MoE, 8 active of 128 experts plus 1 shared / 12B: Unified encoder-free dense, multimodal input projected directly into the decoder License: Apache 2.0 Modalities: 12B: Text + Image + Audio / 26B A4B and 31B: Text + Image Runs on: Laptop, consumer GPU/workstation class Formats: GGUF via Ollama/LM Studio, safetensors via Hugging Face, Docker On disk: 12B: 7GB Q4, estimated / 26B A4B: 15GB Q4, estimated / 31B: 18GB Q4, estimated

Sarah Jang Credentials: Pratt Institute; Carnegie Mellon University From: New York State Based: Brooklyn, NY Discipline: Industrial Design, Furniture Website: https://sarahjang.me Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sjang_studio/ Youri [image: 1jKsscovamqDpVdGzF7SjGg.png?width=2617&height=1472] Myre Chair [image: FdrQmrrb4zcUuEtFwwgXbbcQnHU.png?width=1286&height=1686] Minhwa Chair [image: 4EKiZqdIJ3hpT8rPlrvUrE1Eg.png?width=1920&height=2160]

Toshiya Hayashi Credentials: Hitotsubashi University From: Toyama Prefecture, Japan Based: Tokyo, Japan Discipline: Industrial Design, Furniture we+: https://weplus.jp Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toshiya__hayashi/ Unseen Objects / Overflow [image: we_HeiwaGokin_UnseenObjects_Overflow_Photo_Daisuke_Yoshio_07.jpg] In-Between Matter [image: In-Between-Matter_Photo_Masaki_Ogawa_01.jpg]

libfive Type: Implicit field based Created: 2017 Website: https://libfive.com/ GitHub: https://github.com/libfive/libfive

Jesper Kouthoofd Credentials: Studied graphic design (institution unspecified) From: Gothenburg, Sweden Based: Stockholm, Sweden Discipline: Industrial Design, Hardware teenage engineering: https://teenage.engineering acne: https://www.acnestudios.com instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kouthoofd70/ OP–XY [image: cc88034f98313e26d1b13d70aec15db1eb53beacafb8a379f75a00f14e88cd13.webp] CM–15 [image: b1fe2d43e64328ff637a14be160715a626a76fb67b5f59fa7c5fbeb72e52a9fe.webp] OB–4 [image: 3fbcaf092f8052ecf22aeb046c9bce6c67b48f71c7702b73da358698e77656ea.webp]

Paolo Rizzatto Credentials: Laurea in Architecture, Politecnico di Milano (1965) From: Milan, Italy Based: Milan, Italy Discipline: Lighting, Industrial Design Website: https://paolorizzatto.it Luceplan: https://www.luceplan.com Titania [image: Lampe_Titania.jpg] Lola [image: Paolo_rizzato_e_alberto_meda%2C_lampadario_e_applique_lola%2C_1987.JPG]

Germane Barnes is an American architect and director of Studio Barnes by way of the West Side of Chicago, IL and based in Miami, FL. Studio Barnes has been featured in international venues and publications most notably, The Art Institute of Chicago, Venice Biennale, The Museum of Modern Art NY, SF MoMA, MAS Context, The Graham Foundation, The New York Times, DesignMIAMI/ Art Basel, Metropolis Magazine, Domus, LACMA, Denver Art Museum and The National Museum of African American History where he was identified as one of the future designers on the rise. Website: germanebarnes.com Instagram: @germane.barnes University profile: University of Miami Vimeo search: Germane Barnes lectures YouTube search: Germane Barnes videos Joy Riding in Columbus, IL USA [image: 1783720982730-9ab57cc6-6508-4711-a847-4a2e5616cb23-image.jpeg] Griot in Venice, Italy [image: 1783721491986-d7534328-6580-491e-9149-c96799cff5b7-image.jpeg] A Spectrum of Blackness in Chicago, IL USA [image: 1783721609070-d8900c60-cedc-4194-adcc-e78368b751d6-image.jpeg]

Protolabs Protolabs is a digital manufacturing service for custom prototypes and low-volume production parts. Formats: STEP, IGES, SolidWorks (.sldprt), STL (3D printing) Materials: Metals, plastics, elastomers, liquid silicone rubber Processes: CNC machining (milling, turning), injection molding, sheet metal fabrication, 3D printing (SLA, SLS, MJF, DMLS, PolyJet, HPS) Lead time: As fast as 1 day Website: https://www.protolabs.com/

Era Website: era.world Founders: Liz Durman, Alex Ollman, and Megan Gole AI gadget platform. Started with a AI enabled gadget dev kit for designers allowing them to add intelligence to everyday objects. Called it Primavera: https://primavera.era.world/ [image: original_1d1790e53c7a55293513ec73f495c13a.png?1783115428?bc=0]

Bonsai 1 Bit Announcement: https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-8b Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/prism-ml/Bonsai-8B-mlx-1bit Bonsai 1 Bit is a 1 bit language model that comes in 8B, 4B, and 1.7B parameter sizes. The 8B model is 1/16 the size of comparable 16 bit 8B open models with similar performance. At 1.15gb, this model can fit on many kinds of devices with 4-5x better energy efficiency

Karim Rashid is an Egyptian-Canadian industrial designer, born in Cairo in 1960, raised in Canada, and based in New York since 1993. He is one of the most prolific designers of his generation, with over 4,000 designs in production, from the Garbo waste can for Umbra and the bobble water bottle to furniture, lighting, and hotel interiors. His work is in the permanent collections of MoMA, Centre Pompidou, and SFMOMA. Website: karimrashid.com Instagram: @karim_rashid_official X/Twitter: @karim_design Facebook: karimrashiddesign [image: 3000234665_e1ee05b7a5_b.jpg] [image: 3576000314_37decdaf03_b.jpg] [image: 8859077779_e3884e2b2c_b.jpg] [image: 960px-Sweet_Chill.jpg] [image: 960px-Prizeotel_Bern-City_designed_by_Karim_Rashid_2.jpg] [image: 5775337596_ac94ec9d69_b.jpg]

Text-to-CAD from Jake Fitzgerald A collection of agent skills for CAD, robotics and hardware design Website: https://www.cadskills.xyz/ GitHub: https://github.com/earthtojake/text-to-cad/blob/main/skills/cad/SKILL.md X: https://x.com/earthtojake Formats: STEP, DXF Kernel: OpenCASCADE (build123d based) Jake is a software engineer at South Park Commons.