Baukunst's latest study group report, Assembling the Future: Manufacturing + AI is a deep dive on one of this decade's most important issues: how AI is shifting manufacturing, employment, and the shape of human work.

Members of the Baukunst collective, startup founders, and guest experts, including leaders from manufacturing giants like NVIDIA, Flex, Tesla, Rivian, and Apple, stepped up to share both questions and experiences working with AI. We explored how AI is being used by some of the world's largest contract manufacturers and best startups, ranging from agentic procurement and negotiation to AI-assisted industrial engineering and humanoid robots.

Baukunst Study Groups are short, collaborative projects where the participants dive into new areas of inquiry. Each Study Group is designed to inspire collective members both in their domain knowledge and in applying their brains, bodies, and spirits to wholly new directions.

Baukunst is a collective of creative technologists building companies at the frontiers of technology and design. It is our belief that the most interesting and transformative companies are built not by a ‘genius founder’ but in community with a network of individuals working in concert to pursue a central vision. We apply this perspective to how we inquire and learn.

Baukunst is committed to investigating, exploring, and improvising within a group setting in order to fuel one another’s ideas and elevate the quality of our discoveries.