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- 100Frontier Mechanics Week 100: BOHR flies a nuclear battery, Reflect wins a radio license, SK hynix raises $26.5 billion, and Oratomic prices logical qubitsA tritium cell escaped the laboratory, an orbital mirror exposed a regulatory seam, HBM capacity reached public markets, and neutral-atom economics shifted from physical to encoded computation.
- 99Frontier Mechanics Week 99: Unity reaches criticality, LINK chases Swift, Meta admits agents are late, and quantum optimization enters the fabA microreactor sustained a chain reaction, a servicer began an orbital rescue, an AI lab named its execution bottleneck, and semiconductor process control tested a hybrid solver.
- 98Frontier Mechanics Week 98: Halos builds a robot safety stack, DOE sets a quantum deadline, OpenAI tapes out Jalapeño, and FOSSA finances sovereign IoTPhysical AI acquired an independent safety path, quantum procurement targeted scientific utility, an inference chip encoded one lab's serving assumptions, and a small-satellite operator sold vertical control.
- 97Frontier Mechanics Week 97: Q4S swaps entanglement, VICTUS HAZE launches on command, Ariane burns a longer booster, and WaveSync teaches robots to gestureA quantum repeater fit inside a satellite envelope, a responsive-space exercise compressed notice to liftoff, Europe traded more solid propellant for payload, and humanoid speech acquired a motion scheduler.
- 96Frontier Mechanics Week 96: GM bets on sodium, SpaceX prices at $135, Gigasat draws an eleven-million-square-foot factory, and Theker builds a robot that changes shapeAn automaker moved battery chemistry into the grid, the largest IPO in history sold a combined stack, orbital-compute ambition became a factory plan, and modular automation raised $85 million.
- 95Frontier Mechanics Week 95: Google rents SpaceX compute, Vast opens Haven-1 to Britain, Stretch rejects the humanoid, and the ISS chases a leakA $920-million monthly contract made GPUs look like project finance, a private station gained a national pathway, a home robot chose wheels and reach, and an old orbital module demanded patient diagnostics.
- 94Frontier Mechanics Week 94: Vera becomes an agent CPU, robots get 29-digit IDs, New Glenn destroys a pad, and Meta sketches a pendantNvidia optimized the host around tool-using workloads, China attached lifecycle identity to humanoids, a hotfire became a full-stack loss, and ambient AI tried a body smaller than glasses.
- 93Frontier Mechanics Week 93: SpaceX opens its books, Commerce wagers $2 billion on quantum, Starship V3 flies, and X-energy clears a site reviewThe largest private space stack became a public filing, quantum subsidies targeted foundries and fault tolerance, a new methane vehicle deployed hardware, and an industrial reactor project completed an environmental assessment.
- 92Frontier Mechanics Week 92: arXiv punishes hallucinations, Golden Dome reaches $1.2 trillion, Cerebras doubles on debut, and embodied AI asks for a safety caseA preprint server moved authorship back onto humans, a missile shield acquired lifecycle math, wafer-scale silicon met first-day liquidity, and roboticists tried to turn deployment lessons into engineering claims.
- 91Frontier Mechanics Week 91: Golden Dome gets a prototype, NASA delivers HPSC, Nvidia finances its customers, and little red dots get a cocoonA missile-defense architecture began with integration, a flight chip gained Ethernet and fault tolerance, forty billion dollars blurred vendor and investor, and Webb's compact red sources acquired a physical model.
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