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- 80Frontier Mechanics Week 80: NeuroXess accelerates human trials, Sarvam builds for Indian languages, JPSS-4 unfolds on Earth, and Artemis rehearses the launch dayChina's invasive BCI sector moved toward clinical scale, India rolled out sovereign language models, a weather satellite tested its most visible mechanism, and SLS found problems before a crew did.
- 79Frontier Mechanics Week 79: Ariane 64 lights four boosters, Mako shrinks the surgical robot, Euro-Q-Exa joins HPC to quantum, and Xanadu attacks photochemistryEurope's heavy configuration deployed 32 satellites, Stryker put robotic constraint in a surgeon's hand, a quantum machine entered a supercomputing center, and a new algorithm kept nuclei and electrons in one simulation.
- 78Frontier Mechanics Week 78: SpaceX absorbs xAI, ReOrbit sketches a space cloud, Tomorrow.io finances DeepSky, and Starfish sells a dedicated OtterA $1.2 trillion combination joined rockets to models, a European satellite builder proposed distributed orbital compute, weather intelligence raised $175 million, and the Space Force ordered another servicing vehicle.
- 77Frontier Mechanics Week 77: SpaceX files for a million compute satellites, Teton powers nuclear simulation, Nebula becomes a hosted bus, and Claude writes a Mars driveAn orbital data-center proposal collided with thermal math, Idaho quadrupled laboratory compute, Mitsubishi booked a commercial spacecraft platform, and Perseverance tested AI-assisted command generation.
- 76Frontier Mechanics Week 76: Humans& funds collaborative AI, Haven-1 enters integration, DeepSky gives weather an hourly pulse, and Electron buys Open Cosmos a high orbitA $480 million seed round targeted multi-person work, a private station became a testable assembly, microwave sounders moved into an AI-native weather stack, and two satellites activated a European spectrum claim.
- 75Frontier Mechanics Week 75: NEO learns from video, DeepSeek gives transformers a memory table, PSLV fails again, and Europe funds the missing middleA home humanoid gained a world model, conditional lookup challenged dense recall, India's workhorse lost a commercial mission, and €307 million targeted AI, robotics, photonics, and quantum deployment.
- 74Frontier Mechanics Week 74: Atlas becomes a product, Nvidia splits robot brains, Walmart gives agents a cart, and Wing scales the drone storeCES turned a famous humanoid into committed production, physical-AI models divided planning from action, commerce protocols let software transact, and drone delivery expanded from pilots toward a network.
- 73Frontier Mechanics Week 73: Space Forge lights an orbital plasma, Chandra catches a cluster collision, Falcon opens the launch ledger, and diamond spins make their own microwave chorusA free-flying factory created process conditions in orbit, X-rays mapped a merger's hot gas, SpaceX started the year with another batch, and interacting defects sustained collective microwave emission.
- 72Frontier Mechanics Week 72: Nvidia licenses Groq's latency, Waymo gives Gemini the roadside manual, BlueBird unfolds a giant antenna, and Long March 12A misses the boatA chip giant hired and licensed rather than acquired, a robotaxi embedded a language model behind its fleet tools, direct-to-device hardware scaled its aperture, and China's state launcher attempted orbital-class recovery.
- 71Frontier Mechanics Week 71: LeCun starts beyond language, New York signs the RAISE Act, DiskSat rejects the cube, and the Space Force buys a proliferated layerAdvanced machine intelligence became a company, frontier-model governance became state law, a one-inch-thick spacecraft reached orbit, and missile-warning architecture moved deeper into production.
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