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Highlights include Nvidia's new Thor T3000 and T2000 modules targeting mainstream robotics and edge AI, the factory floor protocol fragmentation problem and how PLC monitoring consolidation can help, Microchip's free VectorBlox 3.0 SDK with sparse neural network support for FPGAs, Liquid Instruments' agentic AI test design tool GenInst Studio, and the 'Mind of the Engineer' survey examining where electrical engineers stand on AI adoption. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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