- DNA-origami tiles carrying simple inorganic circuit components were proposed as a route to self-assembling future chips, with protein design advances enabling “mechanical” protein-based computers or optical metamaterials for optical computing.  
- Reversible computing was framed as a path to circumvent the Landauer limit: running 99 % reversible logic lets you execute 50 compute steps for the energy cost of only two irreversible bit erasures, dramatically relaxing energy constraints on dense computation.  
- Directed self-assembly (DSA) using engineered block-copolymers is moving from lab curiosity to high-volume manufacturing, offering a way to do sub-EUV pitch division and potentially save ~$340 M per fab by avoiding high-NA EUV lithography tools.  
- Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and diffusion-based models (DreamFusion, Make-a-Video3D, Point-E) can now generate textured 3-D assets from text or images; meshes extracted via marching cubes are printable, though current point-cloud quality and format-conversion tooling remain immature.  
- Open discussion on 3-D scanning noted unsolved challenges with transparent or refractive objects, suggested far-UV imaging or temporary naphthalene spray coatings, and floated repurposing 3-D printer gantries as motion-controlled camera rigs for photogrammetry.