3+ week, 4+ day ago   (507+ words) From copper to gallium, these metals are helping build the AI revolution. Artificial intelligence may look like a software revolution, but the infrastructure behind it is intensely physical. Data centers require enormous amounts of electrical infrastructure, cooling equipment, processors, networking…...

20+ hour, 13+ min ago   (575+ words) These companies are building the processors behind advanced AI models. The artificial intelligence boom is creating an almost insatiable demand for computing power. Behind every chatbot, image generator and reasoning model are specialized chips performing vast numbers of calculations within…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (489+ words) NANO Nuclear and Tillman are planning up to 6 GW of advanced nuclear power for future data-center campuses. US-based nuclear technology company NANO Nuclear Energy has signed a non-binding commercial framework with Tillman Global Holdings to explore deploying advanced nuclear reactors…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (106+ words) those 1,000 Optimus bots by 2026, and Tesla level 5 autonomy promised in 2021. Chris Young’s Beyond Earth...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (291+ words) San Francisco startup Nori Robotics has begun shipping the A3, a two armed mobile robot priced at $1,688, with the first units delivered in July and wider availability set for this fall. A startup in San Francisco is selling a two armed…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (356+ words) US company Starcloud is developing satellites equipped with high-performance GPUs, including NVIDIA hardware, to run AI workloads in space. US-based startup Starcloud has raised $250 million in a Series A extension at a $2.3 billion valuation, giving the company fresh capital to…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (549+ words) Accrete has received a sole-source contract from the U.S. Marine Corps to provide the service with its Argus for Cognitive Advantage artificial intelligence technology. Under the contract, Accrete will license its Expert AI Agents to the U.S. Marine Corps to give the…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (275+ words) Learning to run an excavator can take years. MIT just handed one to a complete beginner, and they matched an expert on day one. This is the World-Space Interface. It is a miniature excavator arm and bucket, sitting on the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (273+ words) California startup Beagle Technology is skipping the ground-up farm robot and bolting AI onto the tractors growers already own. A camera bolted to a tractor is now deciding where to cut a grapevine, and it is making that call about…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (463+ words) Interesting Engineering...