Building a new way to see Earth.
A photograph shows a landscape. Pixxel's hyperspectral satellites measure reflected light to help ask what it is made of—and what might be changing.
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The humanoid robot entering the factory floor.
A machine shaped around the human body raises a practical question: what work can a general-purpose humanoid robot learn to do? That is the problem Figure is developing robots to address.
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Teaching limestone to capture carbon faster.
An ordinary mineral becomes part of an unusual task. Heirloom uses limestone-based mineralization in its approach to removing carbon dioxide from the air.
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An operating room without borders.
An operating room contains people, devices and information that need to work together. Proximie builds tools to connect them and make surgical workflows easier to understand.
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What if you could print a rocket engine?
Building a launch vehicle begins with the difficult work of making its parts. Agnikul's approach puts rocket engineering and manufacturing in the same conversation.
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What if a houseplant could fight indoor pollution?
What if indoor air became a biotechnology problem? Neoplants approaches it through the engineering of plants, rather than another conventional appliance.
Read the feature →Building a delivery network in the sky.
A road is not the only route between two places. Zipline builds drone delivery services, turning the air above a journey into part of the logistics network.
Read the feature →Rethinking what fifteen minutes means for an electric vehicle.
A charging stop depends on more than the charger. Exponent Energy works across batteries, chargers and infrastructure to rethink the EV energy system.
Read the feature →What if gasoline could be made from air?
Gasoline usually begins below ground. Aircela describes a different starting point: machines using air, water and renewable electricity to make it.
Read the feature →One satellite. Two ways of seeing Earth.
Radar and multispectral imaging offer different views of Earth. GalaxEye describes satellites that bring both sensing approaches together.
Read the feature →There are factories being built in orbit. Varda wants them to make medicine.
Varda develops recoverable spacecraft for orbital pharmaceutical processing and hypersonic testing. Its experiments investigate whether microgravity can produce useful materials for customers on Earth.
Read the feature →The race to build one brain for every robot.
Skild AI develops a shared robotics foundation model intended to serve different machines. Its work asks how much of teaching a robot can move from task-specific engineering into learned behaviour.
Read the feature →SpaceX isn't the only company trying to make the whole rocket reusable.
Stoke Space is developing Nova with the goal of recovering both rocket stages. Its upper-stage design integrates propulsion and active thermal protection; orbital reuse remains to be demonstrated.
Read the feature →Anthropic wants part of its future value to fund the public good. Why?
Anthropic develops Claude AI models and services as a Delaware public-benefit corporation. Its October equity proposal introduces a separate, conditional funding vehicle for public-benefit activity.
Read the feature →AI can discover drugs. Multiply Labs wants robots to manufacture them.
Multiply Labs builds robotics for pharmaceutical and cell-therapy manufacturing. Its systems manipulate existing laboratory equipment to automate operations that still require substantial manual handling.
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