Archive · June 2026
When the camera blinks: a robot that retrieves its way through sensor dropout
A new arXiv method, RL4IL, handles missing camera or language inputs by retrieving donor demonstrations — RAG for robot hands, and an AEC reliability lesson.
Show HN: High-Res Neural Cellular Automata — and what a body that heals itself already knows
cells2pixels scales Neural Cellular Automata to any resolution. Clone it, run a 12-line PyTorch NCA, and learn what self-healing patterns mean for façades.
KI Sommer Camp 2026: Two Days in Zurich Where AI Meets Your Desk
Three hands-on days at PAZ Central Zurich: build AI workflows for architecture on real competition briefs. GenAI, Python, Grasshopper. Sign up for KI Camp 2026.
Cast One Ray, Light One Room: The Game Trick Hiding Inside Daylight Analysis
Cast one ray and you get both sightlines and daylighting. Build a playable p5.js isovist toy, break it, then validate in Ladybug and Radiance.
A C++17 random library exposes std::random_device's quiet single point of failure
Dmitri Bogdanov's utl::random library exposes the silent fallback in C++ std::random_device and ships cross-compiler reproducibility for Monte Carlo.
Every Flat Map Lies — Jason Davies' Gallery Shows You Exactly Where
Clone D3's d3-geo-projection and Jason Davies' map gallery — a hands-on cartography tutorial on projection, distortion, and façade unfolding for AEC pros.
Grasshopper's Training Economy Comes of Age: Five Spring Webinars, One Discipline Question
Five spring-2026 Rhino & Grasshopper webinars — from schneider+schumacher to AA EmTech — reveal a maturing training economy. Read it like a material.
The Spare Path in the Graph: Sakana's Fugu Routes Around the Single-Vendor Failure
Sakana's Fugu orchestrates a swappable pool of frontier LLMs behind one API, scoring 73.7 on SWE-Bench Pro — and selling redundancy against single-vendor risk.
Neural CAD Wants Your Digital Clay — But Who Maintains the Model After?
Autodesk's neural CAD generates editable 3D geometry from speech and sketch. What it changes for a small studio's BIM workflow — and what it doesn't.
Japan's teleoperated construction giant, read from the floor: amplify, don't replace
Jinki Ittai's giant construction humanoid is teleoperated, not autonomous — what that means for European sites, EU machinery law, and the torque math vendors skip.