Chemistry

GM is actively winding down its current EV generation while betting on a new one — and the numbers behind that pivot are striking. On October 21, 2026, GM formally launched a fourth-generation EV platform built around lithium…

This might solve the battery chemistry question. https://t.co/XXpumUxvqa

ENGINEERING NEWS 🔋 Tesla has a new answer to the slow chemical wear that degrades battery life: an additive molecule built with two sulfate rings instead of one 🔥 Every lithium-ion cell is filled with electrolyte, the liquid that…

Glass resists copper; that is the TGV bottleneck. Kools, founded in April by a 28-year Samsung display veteran, coats via sidewalls with polydopamine — mussel chemistry — and reports peel strength above 5 N/2cm, over double electroless…

GOOD NEWS 🔋 Tesla has found a way to keep iron from wearing down LFP batteries as quickly: blending a little nickel into the cathode 🆒 Lithium iron phosphate, or LFP, is the cheap, cobalt-free chemistry inside many EVs and home…

GOOD NEWS 🚨 Tesla has officially taken the wraps off the Megamanifold, scaling the proven thermal architecture of the Model Y’s Octovalve and Cybertruck’s Super Manifold V2 to Class 8 commercial freight 🔥 Instead of relying on isolated…

FUNDRAISE 💰: @frontrunvc flagged @liquidcompute on March 5th, back when they were Pluto. 194 days later: $15M seed co-led by @chemistry and @FirstMarkCap, with @ycombinator, @TrueBridgeCP and @ufo_holdings. 🫡

More robotics teams are getting behind the same idea: let robots learn straight from people. Sunday’s ACT-1 learned long-horizon household tasks from human demonstrations. X Square’s TwinDEX used a few hundred robot-free episodes to train…

98% success sounds less impressive until the robot has to hit that number on a chemistry task. A few millimeters can decide whether a pipette enters the vial or hits the rim. VLA-Precision uses real-world RL to tighten pretrained VLA…

Specialized material chemistry in Japan remains the hidden anchor for global AI infrastructure. Whether it is indium phosphide substrates or advanced dielectric packaging, software scaling relies completely on single-digit Tier 2 suppliers…

Robots cleaning your cars! 🧼 The Autowash Robotics Operating System went into commercial operation this month at their Lakeside site in Wheat Ridge, after around 14 months of development. Here's what happens when you pull in. The system…

Compute deals in the billions, a $1.6B perception raise, and new ways to collect robot data without even using the robot. 1️⃣ @Figure_robot partnered with Nscale to deploy up to 100,000 GPUs on NVIDIA Vera Rubin, with $3.5B committed…

Extending microbump pitch down to 5 microns preserves existing high-volume bonding lines and avoids the steep yield loss of early hybrid bonding adoption, shifting the engineering challenge to void-free underfill chemistry.…

X Square Robot just unveiled TwinDEX, an isomorphic three-finger, 9-DoF manipulation interface designed to solve the physical AI data bottleneck. By matching a wearable exoskeleton directly to a robot end effector across kinematics, touch,…

Post Log in Sign up Post wafer on X: "We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised a $40M Series A! co-led by @MarathonMP and @chemistry, with participation from @Wing\VC, @AMD Ventures, @outsetcap, @fiftyyears, and @ycombinator, and our…

Robotics deep dive: HUMANOID CHOKEPOINTS Almost every supply-chain post about humanoids has one country in it. Trace five critical inputs one at a time and they land in four different places. Magnets first, because that is where the…