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Embodied Foundation Models

Megathread for embodied foundation models for perception, spatial reasoning, and robot action, from device-native models to large world-action models.

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Black Forest Labs FLUX 3 Action Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/flux-3-action-base, https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/flux-3-action-droid, https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/flux-3-action-so101 GitHub: https://github.com/black-forest-labs/flux-action Website: https://bfl.ai/models/flux-3-action Docs: https://docs.bfl.ai/flux_3/flux3_action_overview Developer: Black Forest Labs Released: September 2026 Variants: Base / DROID / SO-101 Parameters: 7B Architecture: Diffusion-transformer world action model derived from the multimodal FLUX 3 backbone, with joint future-video and action prediction License: FLUX Kommunity License v1.0 Modalities: Text + Multi-view RGB + Robot state in / Video + Action out Runs on: NVIDIA GPU (Linux), about 32GB VRAM for BF16 or 24GB with FP8r and text-encoder offload Formats: safetensors, LeRobot and FLUX Action inference
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Swiss Object Makers

Megathread covering Swiss object makers covering architecture, industrial design, and product design.

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Tim Frei Credentials: Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Design, Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), 2026; Product Manager & Industrial Designer at roboa AG Based: Zurich, Switzerland Discipline: Industrial Design, Product Design, Graphic Design, Hardware Website: https://tim-frei.ch Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timfrei_/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-frei-105382238/ Notlicht [image: image-f3c3fbdf-ce4a-4c4b-96e6-1abb1f933b9e.jpg?cX=0&cY=46.353658536585385&cW=1629&cH=993.2926829268292] pocket clamp [image: image-ac2e61c1-dd45-43b7-9c2f-33b5c793a931.jpg?w=1968&cX=0&cY=6.930894308943039&cW=2000&cH=1321.138211382114]
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Italian Object Makers

Megathread covering Italian object makers covering architecture, industrial design, and product design.

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Valerio Sommella Credentials: Design Department, Politecnico di Milano From: Cortona, Tuscany, Italy Based: Milan, Italy Discipline: Industrial Design, Furniture, Lighting, Hardware Website: https://www.sommella.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/valerio.sommella/ Arata [image: valerio-sommella-arata-skld-studio-01.jpg] Jasmine [image: valerio-sommella-jasmine-tidelli-01.jpg] Octave [image: valerio-sommella-octave-ichendorf-01.jpeg]
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Scandinavian Object Makers

Megathread covering Scandinavian object makers covering architecture, industrial design, and product design.

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Hallgeir Homstvedt Credentials: BA of Industrial Design with Honours, University of Newcastle, Australia (2002-2006) Based: Oslo, Norway Discipline: Furniture, Lighting, Industrial Design Website: https://hallgeirhomstvedt.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hallgeirhomstvedt/ Mame [image: Mame.2.jpg] Ori [image: ORI.Homstvedt.jpg] Knut [image: KNUT_TAUPE_5453_white.jpg]
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American Object Makers

Megathread covering American object makers covering architecture, industrial design, and product design.

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Sung Jang Credentials: BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; M.Des, Domus Academy Based: Chicago, Illinois, USA Discipline: Industrial Design, Furniture Website: https://www.sungjang.com/ Shape of Land [image: Volume+Website+SJ9a.jpg] Given [image: Volume+Website+SJ+2a.jpg]
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Japanese Object Makers

Megathread covering Japanese object makers covering architecture, industrial design, and product design.

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Atsushi Kitagawara Credentials: Tokyo University of the Arts; Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University of the Arts From: Nagano, Japan Based: Tokyo, Japan Discipline: Architecture, Industrial Design, Furniture, Lighting Atsushi Kitagawara Architects: kitagawara.co.jp Hosho Gakuen Learning Center Building n.6 [image: 220929_hosyo_gakuen_040-1-804x1024.jpg] Kobuchizawa Station and Plaza [image: 01_kobuchizawaeki_055.jpg]
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Local LMs

Megathread for local and open source language and multimodal foundation models that can run on personal computers, phones, and other devices.

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InternLM Intern Lumina U2 Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/internlm/InternLumina-U2 GitHub: https://github.com/InternLM/InternLumina-U2 Website: https://internlm.github.io/InternLumina-U2/ Developer: Shanghai AI Laboratory / InternLM Released: September 2026 Parameters: 16B total, 1B active Architecture: LLaDA-2.0 MoE diffusion LLM backbone; 8-codebook fully-discrete AToken visual representation; spatial-parallel denoising plus codebook-depth autoregressive head License: Apache 2.0 Modalities: Text + Image + Video + 3D Runs on: Huawei Ascend NPU only Formats: safetensors On disk: 33.81GB Ascend safetensors, estimated
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AI Hardware Companies

Megathread on companies making AI native devices

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Sandbar Website: https://www.sandbar.com/ Based in: New York City, USA Founders: Mina Fahmi and Kirak Hong Stream is their product. It’s a private voice ring with a mic, touchpad, and haptic feedback. [image: 69dccd36d5368aeed54cd91f_1_FULL%20copy.jpg]
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Physics Foundation Models

Megathread for physics foundation models for scientific machine learning and engineering simulation, from compact local models to large compute-bound systems.

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General Physics Transformer Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/flwi/Physics-Foundation-Model GitHub: https://github.com/FloWsnr/General-Physics-Transformer Website: https://flowsnr.github.io/blog/physics-foundation-model/ Technical report: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13805 Developer: FloWsnr Released: September 2025 Variants: S, M, L, XL Architecture: Transformer-based neural differentiator with numerical integration License: MIT Modalities: Physical fields in, physical fields out; eight fluid, solid, shock, thermal, and multiphase systems Runs on: Desktop GPU, NVIDIA only Formats: PyTorch .pth On disk: S: 32.0MB / M: 446MB / L: 1.54GB / XL: 3.18GB
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Advanced Materials

Megathread covering advanced and novel materials for making physical objects, across biomaterials, composites, and engineered surfaces.

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Smile Plastics Smile Plastics is Smile Materials’ collection of recycled plastic panels in named PET, HIPS, and HDPE designs. Website: https://smile-materials.com/material-brand/smile-plastics/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/smile.materials/ Maker: Smile Materials Ltd Composition: 100% recycled and recyclable plastic from a mix of pre- and post-consumer waste, including yoghurt pots and white goods; panels are sorted into PET, HIPS, or HDPE types, but a panel is not guaranteed to contain only one type. Process: Recycled plastic is hand-selected, hand-arranged, and pressed into panels at the Wales factory; panels leave the press complete and can be CNC-routed or hand-finished. Properties: Indicative data sheets list densities of 1.28 g/cm³ for rPET, 1.06 g/cm³ for rHIPS, and 0.95 g/cm³ for rHDPE; fabrication guidance gives about 2 mm per metre of thermal expansion over a 10°C change and rapid rigidity loss above 85°C for unsupported sheets. Applications: Smile Plastics x ACAD Ocean Modular Seating installation (2021, reimagined 2022); Jean Paul Brkovic Heron UTO series low chair, coffee table, and stacking benches (2024); Ocean More Than Just a Bench public bench (2025); GOODSHEET Orca Statement Bench (2025) Made in: Swansea, Wales, UK Availability: Samples and Inquiries [image: Smile-Plastics-Material-240-Dark-Blue-2.jpg] [image: DSC3222-scaled-1.jpg]
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Robotics & Machines

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

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Sharpa Wave Five-finger dexterous robotic hand Website: https://www.sharpa.com/pages/wave Announcement: https://www.sharpa.com/blogs/news/ai-robotmaker-sharpa-reaches-key-milestone-of-mass-production Maker: Sharpa Origin: Singapore Released: December 2025 Degrees of freedom: 22 active Payload: 40 kg per hand Dimensions: 208 × 90 × 50 mm Connection: Gigabit Ethernet, updates 500 times per second [image: blog-AI_8b470be1-d5c5-41ff-bfac-3a6f56ebaeac.jpg?v=1767701580]
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Text to CAD

Category for apps and open source projects working on generating CAD and 3D models from text.

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Raven from Moritz Rietschel, Philipp Hölzenbein, and Maximilian Rietschel An agent inside Rhino 8 that turns a text prompt or a reference image into native, editable Grasshopper definitions. Website: https://raven.build/ X: https://x.com/ravencad Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ravencad/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@RavenCAD Discord: https://discord.com/invite/nXbkvwXwBh Formats: 3DM, STEP, IGES, DWG, DXF, OBJ, STL, 3MF, SVG, PDF Kernel: openNURBS (Grasshopper definitions based) Moritz, Philipp, and Maximilian are the co-founders of Raven.
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South American Object Makers

Megathread covering South American object makers covering architecture, industrial design, and product design.

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Isay Weinfeld Credentials: School of Architecture, Mackenzie University (São Paulo) From: São Paulo, Brazil Based: São Paulo, Brazil Discipline: Architecture, Furniture Isay Weinfeld: https://www.isayweinfeld.com/ Sideboard (2006) [image: Aparador_02RF.jpg] Lounge Chair (2006) [image: Poltrona_09-RF.jpg]
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CAD Kernels

Megathread for existing and emerging CAD kernels.

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vcad Type: b-Rep based Website: https://vcad.io GitHub: https://github.com/ecto/vcad Created: 2026 License: Apache 2.0 Language: Rust Formats: STEP, STL, GLB, DXF Bindings: WASM
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Central American Object Makers

Megathread covering Central American object makers covering architecture, industrial design, and product design. Central America includes: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and Mexico

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Germane Barnes

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

Griot in Venice, Italy

A Spectrum of Blackness in Chicago, IL USA

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On Demand Fabrication Companies

Megathread to share and discuss on-demand fabrication and manufacturing companies

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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/
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PrismML

Covering language models from PrismML

Website: https://prismml.com/
X: https://x.com/PrismML
Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/prism-ml
GitHub: https://github.com/PrismML-Eng
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/prismml

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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
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Karim Rashid

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
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Facebook: karimrashiddesign

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