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The best new AI for hardware engineering this week

The AI tools, models, methods and open-source projects for chip design, PCBs, CAD, embedded, robotics and manufacturing that hardware engineers found this week.

Updated Nov 12, 2026. Read from 36 sources every four hours.

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  1. 1Open sourceWorth trying this weekFirst seen Nov 12, 2026

    HybridRobotics/supermimic

    Humanoid whole-body motion tracking with one differentiable world model.

  2. 2ModelWorth trying this weekFirst seen Nov 12, 2026

    lerobot/smolvla_base

  3. 3Open sourceWorth trying this weekFirst seen Nov 12, 2026

    toyxyz/toyxyz_RGBMocap

    Native Windows video motion capture with ExMR, FlowHMR and GVHMR, contact correction, humanoid retargeting, and FBX/VMD export.

  4. 4ModelWorth knowingFirst seen Nov 12, 2026

    speridlabs/idol

  5. 5Open sourceWorth trying this weekFirst seen Nov 12, 2026

    LabWired allows engineers to test compiled firmware on simulated MCU boards (CPU and peripherals)

    Andrii Shylenko’s LabWired is an MIT-licensed MCU firmware simulation core that runs compiled firmware against modeled CPUs and peripherals, captures UART and bus output, register state, and supports repeatable checks in CI. The simulator works on Arm…

  6. 6HardwareFirst seen Nov 12, 2026

    AMD Delivers an x86 Knockout Part Deux with Venice ft Zen 6 Benchmarks

    The AMD EPYC 9006 "Venice" series is a monster with up to 256 cores, 512 threads each, 16 channel DDR5 memory, PCIe Gen6 and multiple families. We get into the launch in detail. STH Main Site Article: Substack: STH Top 5 Weekly Newsletter:

  7. 7Open sourceWorth trying this weekFirst seen Nov 12, 2026

    Releasing the first version a new open-source RTL Simulator

    Hi everyone. In case anyone here is interested in testing new stuff, I have something to announce. With the use of AI, I made a brand new RTL simulator and released the first version last week as open source. It's called Enzan. It supports Verilog, VHDL, and…

  8. 8Open sourceWorth trying this weekFirst seen Nov 12, 2026

    Huy-Quang-Dao/instantTrack

    Whole-body motion tracking for the Unitree G1 in under 3 minutes on average on one GPU: return 0.82 with 0/40 clips failed, held from 2.74 min (mean of 15 seeds, range 2.21-3.61, fine checkpoints), 11.87 it/s (world model + Muon + overlapped CUDA streams,…

  9. 9HardwareWorth trying this weekFirst seen Nov 12, 2026

    WeAct Logic Analyzer V2 – A $10 USB 3.0 logic analyzer board compatible with Sigrok/Pulseview (fork)

    WeAct Studio Logic Analyzer V2 is a low-cost, small WCH CH32H417 board designed to be used as a 16-channel USB 3.0 logic analyzer with up to 200 MHz bandwidth. The company says the board runs three different “apps”: logic analyzer, USB-serial + DAP, or…

  10. 10ModelWorth trying this weekFirst seen Nov 12, 2026

    openvla/openvla-7b

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How it is ranked

  • Each item is judged for a hands-on hardware engineer (electrical, mechanical, semiconductor, embedded, robotics or manufacturing): how much it could speed up or improve real design, verification or build work this week, whether it is new, and whether there is a real product, part, project or result behind it.
  • How hot it is where it was found counts too: points, stars, upvotes, views and likes, each on its own scale.
  • A find picked up in several places at once ranks higher than one seen once.
  • Today fades an item by half its lift every two days. This week ranks on quality alone.
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