Welcome to The Re/Cap Podcast with Ellis Malmgren!  This week’s ‘cappenings:

• A major auto manufacturer’s decade-old, whole-factory digital twin

• Volvo calls on Gaussian splatting for safety

• The world’s first 100%-AI architectural project

• A consumer goods titan rethinks product shoots with digital twins and NVIDIA Omniverse

• Laser & structured light scanning thrill manufacturers

• An AEC Error of the Week in the 1960s at the height of high-rise craze

  
  

Quick caps:

• [Article] NVIDIA Open Sources 3D Gaussian Ray Tracing and 3D Gaussian Unscented Transform https://radiancefields.com/nvidia-releases-3d-gaussian-ray-tracing-and-3d-gaussian-unscented-transform

• [Podcast] Scaling Global Land Rights through Geospatial Innovation https://www.gim-international.com/content/article/scaling-global-land-rights-through-geospatial-innovation

• [Use Case] Digital Twin Consortium: Digital Twin-Enabled Microfactory for Smart Manufacturing https://www.digitaltwinconsortium.org/initiatives/technology-showcase/micro-factory/

• [Article] In the Age of AI, Idea Curation Will Eclipse Creation https://www.qualitydigest.com/inside/innovation-article/age-ai-idea-curation-will-eclipse-creation-032025.html

• [Case study] Public Works Pioneers Drones-as-a-Service Program for Salem, Oregon https://lidarmag.com/2025/03/14/public-works-pioneers-drones-as-a-service-program-for-salem-oregon/

• [Article] Inside Red Bull Racing: How 3D Printing and Scanning create a winning advantage in Formula One https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/inside-red-bull-racing-how-3d-printing-and-scanning-create-a-winning-advantage-in-formula-one-237590/

Timestamps

0:00 Intro: a 100% AI architecture project in historic Slovenia 

0:25  A whole-factory virtual twin…in 2016

2:37 What’s cappenin’ this week + quick caps

3:24  Volvo Is Making Fewer Things Splat, With Gaussian Splatting and Virtual Worlds

5:26  Archificial Intelligence: Behold the World’s First 100% AI Architecture Project

7:58  Deodorant Duet: The $150B Consumer Goods Company Using Digital Twins for Content Creation

9:47 Lighten Up: Laser & Structured Light Scanning, and the Twilight of Traditional Part Inspection

12:55  AEC Error of the Week: East London’s Ronan Point Collapse of 1968

Main Re/Cap sources:

https://www.volvogroup.com/en/news-and-media/news/2017/mar/virtual-twin-plant-shorten-lead-times.html

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/03/volvo-reconstructs-crashes-with-ai-in-virtual-worlds-to-make-safer-cars/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kissacastaneda/2025/03/13/see-inside-the-worlds-first-ai-architectural-project-by-studio-tim-fu/

https://www.unilever.com/news/press-and-media/press-releases/2025/unilever-reinvents-product-shoots-with-digital-twins-and-ai/

https://www.advancedmanufacturing.org/smart-manufacturing/light-em-up/article_80cf757c-0418-11f0-9d87-0fbad974851e.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-44498608

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIvD2agDBnM

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