Manufacturing dates back about 2.5 million years, when early hominins fashioned stone tools. Since then, it’s been an industry formed and reformed by technology. And as AI has become the axis on which all technology turns, it makes sense AI would make its way into factories of all kinds—but startups focused on AI in industrial applications are still rarer than you may think, said Devin Bhushan, founder and CEO of Squint. “For whatever reason, it can still feel like a forgotten industry by a lot ...