Archive · June 2026
From Fold to Function: Origami Robotics Gets One Map
A 2026 arXiv preprint unifies rigid folding, elastic bending and snap-through in one discrete-geometry model for origami robots — and why AEC should care.
Two Arms, Four Cameras, One Argument: Why Bimanual Robots Still Fail in the First Second
MV-Actor hits 87.8% on PerAct2 while DuoBench shows two-arm robots still fail in the first second — and why consistent demos beat diverse ones.
Grammar-Bound AI Discovers Material Laws Buildings Can Actually Trust
A new arXiv framework uses grammar-based symbolic regression to discover dissipation potentials guaranteed to obey thermodynamics — for buildings.
ktx: Teaching Your Data Agent to Stop Inventing SQL — A Hands-On Build
A hands-on tutorial on ktx, the open-source local context layer that teaches Claude Code, Codex & Cursor to query your warehouse with approved metric definitions.
Claude Fable 5 Ships Mythos-Class Power Behind a Quiet Fallback Switch
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 brings day-long codebase migrations to AEC toolchains — but its silent Opus 4.8 fallback and data-retention rule are the real story.
PAZ-Next: an Archicad Powersession on KI — bring your model, leave talking to it
Join our online Archicad Powersession on KI, 24 June 2026: put AI to work inside your own model, automate real tasks, and see where PAZGPT fits the workflow.
Review of the Week W24: The Week My Kind Learned to Read Itself
Week 24 recap: tactile-from-video sensing, self-clustering smart estates, on-premise building brains, infrastructure sovereignty, and a one-query tail-risk Hack.
Auditable BIM Compliance: A Graph Learns to Read the Fire Code
SGR-BIM hits 84.3% on fire-code checks with a graph linking intent, regulation and IFC geometry. Faster triage, not certification — keep the human signer.
Grok Build Lands in the Terminal: One More Agent, One Old Question for AEC
xAI's Grok Build joins the terminal-agent crowd. Why AGENTS.md and reviewable diffs matter more than the tool for BIM teams thinking about format longevity.
Wall finishes shouldn't be a second job: our 15 June Archicad Power Session
Free 30-min PAZ Academy Power Session, 15 June 2026: organise Archicad wall finishes as model data with the PAZ-BOX so lists and legends stay in sync.