Interesting Engineering

🚤 Splash Industries has unveiled the Airstrike Pack, a modular payload that lets its 11-foot Typhoon USV launch one-way attack drones directly from the sea, expanding the 600-nautical-mile-range robot boat's role beyond autonomous resupply and surveillance. 🔗https://link.ie.social/O28IZk

🏎️ Porsche has unveiled the 911 Challenge, a track-only race car based on the 992.2-generation 911 GT3 producing 508 horsepower, set to replace the discontinued 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport as the entry point to Porsche's customer racing lineup starting in 2027 at $275,000. 🔗https://link.ie.social/SjDMYv

🧭 Q-CTRL has successfully demonstrated GPS-free maritime navigation using its GravNav quantum gravity sensor in the Coral Sea, achieving 10 times better accuracy than conventional satellite navigation without relying on GPS signals. 🔗https://link.ie.social/OEWb4j

⚡ Georgia Power has signed a 3,200-megawatt contract with OpenAI for a new Effingham County project, projected to save typical residential customers $180 per year starting in 2029, with OpenAI covering infrastructure costs and committing up to 1,000 MW of flexible demand response. 🔗https://link.ie.social/iuz3EA

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🖨️ The U.S. Navy has released new technical requirements streamlining approval for 3D-printed metallic parts in submarine construction and repair, eliminating redundant engineering assessments to accelerate production and bypass supply chain bottlenecks. 🔗https://link.ie.social/yC61Zj

Watch to see how the world’s first commercial Gen IV nuclear plant works—and what the headlines leave out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOPv5-YaFuc

🤖 NVIDIA has developed COMPASS, a framework that combines a pretrained navigation policy with reinforcement learning and AI coding agents to adapt robot navigation across different machines and environments, reducing development time while keeping humans involved at key decision points. 🔗https://link.ie.social/uVH4LO

🏆 AGIBOT topped the second World Humanoid Robot Games with 46 medals—18 gold, 16 silver, and 12 bronze—using its already mass-produced OmniHand, X2, A3, and G2 robots across events ranging from dexterous manipulation to hotel services and Tai Chi. 🔗https://link.ie.social/tzVMJU