Dustin Walper
@DustinWalper

Founder of @ValstadShip. We're building the machine that builds the ships.

 Austin, TX
Joined July 2021
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Physical AI is coming for the shipyard

Shipbuilding is one of the last great manufacturing industries that still runs mostly on human muscle and institutional memory. A welder reads a drawing, interprets fit-up tolerances on the fly, and

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Reclaiming America’s Maritime Might

Here’s the uncomfortable reality: China is now by far the world’s biggest commercial shipbuilder. While the United States produces only about 80,000 compensated gross tons (CGT) per year—roughly 0.13
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