US start-ups are ramping up efforts to bring sodium ion battery manufacturing stateside as demand for grid-scale energy storage grows, though most still depend on Chinese-made cells for now.
Top Stories This Week
- The Start-ups Hoping To Return Battery Making To The US
- US Executive Charged In Massive $300M Illicit Scheme Smuggling GPU Servers To China
- Regulating AI ‘not The Right Place To Start’ Says Bailey
- Flow Raises $50m In Series B Funding For AI Engineering Platform
- New Humanoid Robot Can Work Safely With People
- Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Scaling. What Has Changed?
- How 3D Printing Is Transforming Robot Parts: Materials, Design & Applications
- A Day In The Life Of A Roboticist
- MIT Engineers Create A System For Building Shape-changing Smart Devices
- MIT’s Tiny Flying Robot Gets 450% Faster With AI
- DeepSeek And Huawei Release Open-source Ascend AI Programming Tools To Reduce Reliance On Nvidia CUDA
Hardware Business News
US Executive Charged In Massive $300M Illicit Scheme Smuggling GPU Servers To China
A California tech executive has been indicted for allegedly orchestrating a $300 million scheme to smuggle GPU servers, designed for advanced computing, into China by routing shipments through third countries and falsifying export documents.
Regulating AI ‘not The Right Place To Start’ Says Bailey
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey has argued that rigorous testing and safeguards should precede any attempts to regulate artificial intelligence, as he believes regulation is not the initial priority.
Flow Raises $50m In Series B Funding For AI Engineering Platform
Flow Engineering has secured $50 million in Series B funding to expand its AI-driven platform for hardware engineering teams, aiming to connect requirements, design, and verification in a unified system.
New Humanoid Robot Can Work Safely With People
Agility Robotics has unveiled the Digit 5 humanoid robot, which incorporates advanced safety features and real-time AI sensing so it can work directly alongside people in industrial environments.
Hardware Engineering News
Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Scaling. What Has Changed?
Level 4 autonomous driving is shifting from isolated pilots to large-scale fleet deployment, as companies like Lucid, Bolt, and Waymo announce ambitious plans powered by modular electronic architectures such as NVIDIA Hyperion.
How 3D Printing Is Transforming Robot Parts: Materials, Design & Applications
3D printing is increasingly enabling robotics engineers to produce customized parts with complex geometries and optimized materials directly from digital designs, supporting everything from prototyping to select end-use components.
A Day In The Life Of A Roboticist
Charlie Kemp, CTO of Hello Robot, shares how developing mobile assistive robots like Stretch is shaped by real-world interactions and user needs rather than just technical ambition.
Hardware R&D News
MIT Engineers Create A System For Building Shape-changing Smart Devices
MIT engineers have introduced “bifur-circuits,” modular building blocks that maintain electrical connectivity while being compressed, stretched, or rotated, enabling the rapid prototyping of smart devices with shape-sensing capabilities.
MIT’s Tiny Flying Robot Gets 450% Faster With AI
MIT researchers have boosted their tiny flying robot’s speed by around 450 percent using an AI-powered control system, enabling rapid flips and insect-like agility.
Open-Source Hardware News
DeepSeek And Huawei Release Open-source Ascend AI Programming Tools To Reduce Reliance On Nvidia CUDA
DeepSeek and Huawei have jointly released open-source programming tools for Ascend AI chips, aiming to make development easier while reducing dependence on Nvidia’s CUDA environment.
