The complete field record · 2024—2026
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110 weekly reports on the systems moving from experiment to infrastructure.
Every issue covers four developments, preserves its research trail, and calculates reading time at 150 words per minute for dense technical prose.
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Newest first · Filter by time- 110Frontier Mechanics Week 110: IonQ rearranges a solver, Caelora sells the lasers, StriX measures a moving Earth, and the Fed raises the cost of waitingA quantum-assisted engineering benchmark worth reading past the headline, a fusion company's laser business, radar in a dedicated orbit, and the financing consequences of a rate increase. Reporting for September 14-20, 2026.
- 109Frontier Mechanics Week 109: Maven takes the warehouse shift, Terran R enters NASA's catalog, ions remember a pulse, and connected products get a reporting clockIndustrial autonomy's operating hours, the meaning of a launch-services award, a gel that processes neural signals, and the first Cyber Resilience Act reporting deadline. Reporting for September 7-13, 2026.
- 108Frontier Mechanics Week 108: WeatherNext watches the sky, NVIDIA buys model distribution, Cluster burns up on camera, and PhyFilter corrects a robot's mistakesHourly weather forecasts, a $12.93 billion platform agreement, airborne reentry observations, and feedback control that helps learned policies cope with unfamiliar physics. Reporting for August 31-September 6, 2026.
- 107Frontier Mechanics Week 107: Redwood designs an accelerator, RoboSense ships its photon counters, Europe buys launch options, and the Fed questions its own signalAn FPGA running AI-designed logic, a lidar supplier's manufacturing numbers, milestone-funded rockets, and the feedback loop between central bankers and traders. Reporting for August 24-30, 2026.
- 106Frontier Mechanics Week 106: Gravis gives excavators autonomy, Moxi learns across hospitals, PACE binds an agent to transaction bytes, and Heronic compiles a dataset into an FPGAConstruction autonomy drew a $200 million Series A, hospital robots began a real 2.0 rollout, a DeFi security design placed deterministic authorization outside the language model, and two small companies connected automated model search to custom edge hardware.
- 105Frontier Mechanics Week 105: Archer absorbs Boeing's autonomy stack, Bayonet crawls a ship's hull, Roman meets Falcon Heavy, and cloud photons test BellA public eVTOL company assembled aircraft, autonomy, drones, and airspace software through acquisition; an underwater robot combined free flight with magnetic inspection; a flagship telescope entered launch integration; and outside researchers ran a careful quantum reference experiment on commercial photonic hardware.
- 104Frontier Mechanics Week 104: AMD buys the dataflow, LINK fights a nine-degree spin, Hadrian finances factories, and DARPA measures lift by the empty aircraftInference specialization moved inside AMD, a rescue vehicle recovered attitude control before approaching Swift, a defense manufacturer raised $1.37 billion, and a week of strange aircraft exposed the unforgiving arithmetic of payload fraction.
- 103Frontier Mechanics Week 103: DoorDash becomes an airline, twelve bits hijack a robot encoder, light moves beside the package, and the FCC redraws the robot supply chainA delivery marketplace took responsibility for an aircraft operation, Enigma found a tiny shortcut that erased useful visual features, GlobalFoundries put public money behind co-packaged optics, and a communications regulator reached deep into mobile robots and power electronics.
- 102Frontier Mechanics Week 102: MRV heads for GEO, glass carries the package, Atoms raises $1.7 billion, and a vine robot enters the spineA two-armed spacecraft began a yearlong trip to its first service calls, Intel found a manufacturing partner for glass chip packages, a robotics holding company acquired a formidable balance sheet, and a two-millimeter robot learned to advance without dragging its body.
- 101Frontier Mechanics Week 101: Vikram-1 reaches orbit, SDA adds a mesh layer, a brain implant becomes a product, and Xiaomi generates robot worldsIndia's first private orbital rocket closed its first attempt, a military constellation expanded by launch, neurotechnology crossed from trial to sale, and a 38-billion-parameter model synthesized cross-embodiment training scenes.
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