How far is material technology progressing?

I just watched two videos, one on a microdispensing system from M2-Automation and another on a welding robot from Speedbot. I was genuinely impressed by M2-Automation, it felt as though things were accelerating at an incredible pace, only to be met with profound disappointment by Speedbot. It brought to mind a post I wrote a year ago. AI has clearly made leaps and bounds beyond anything we could have imagined, but has our materials technology remained completely stagnant? Does it truly require ASI to trigger a major transformation in materials science, on par with the progress we’ve seen in AI?