Welcome to Issue #003 of Neural Newton
This week’s theme: AI is finally getting its hands dirty in the tools that actually ship hardware. Siemens put a chatty brain inside Solid Edge, Berkeley researchers built robots that contort like octopi without a PhD in controls, and CoreWeave’s shopping spree says “simulation is now a cloud workload.”
Also: PCB design goes agentic, composites get a natural-language UI, and shop-floor CAM pilots are quietly multiplying.
🏭 The Retrofit: Siemens just turned “drafting” into “done”
Siemens Launches AI-Powered Designcenter Solid Edge 2026 with Cloud Integration and Automated Design
Siemens quietly slid a wrench under CAD’s rib cage: Designcenter Solid Edge 2026 ships with AI that auto-snaps assemblies and spits out up to 80% of your 2D drawings with dimensions, views, and tolerances already in place. Drafting purists, breathe into the paper bag.
The headliner is Magnetic Snap Assembly - it detects mating intent and applies constraints like a veteran designer on espresso. The new drawing engine then compiles orthos, isos, breaks, and dims with “minimal input.”
Translation: the tedium tax just got slashed. There’s also tighter cloud collaboration threaded through the suite so your parts, BOMs, and markup don’t play hide-and-seek across SharePoint purgatory. Design News | Siemens