Brooke Becher

3 weeks ago | builtin.com | Brooke Becher

Image: Gorodenkoff / Shutterstock Summary: Smart manufacturing uses AI, IoT, digital twins and robotics to automate, monitor and optimize production in real time. It aims to enable faster, more flexible, low-waste operations and is already powering some fully automated factories, while helping other companies cut costs and potentially reduce environmental impact. more Smart manufacturing uses AI, IoT, digital twins and robotics to automate, monitor and optimize production in real time.

1 month ago | builtin.com | Brooke Becher

Image: Built In / Shutterstock The growing adoption of technologies like artificial intelligence and electric vehicles is driving a sharp increase in energy consumption. Combined with extreme weather events like California heat waves and deep winter freezes in Texas, this growing demand is putting significant strain on an already overburdened power grid. Virtual power plants offer a digital solution to managing these physical problems.

1 month ago | builtin.com | Brooke Becher

There are more than two million Americans living with limb loss, including nearly 200,000 lower-leg amputations. And that number is expected to rise 145 percent by 2060. Bionic legs — robotic prostheses that use sensors, actuators and microprocessors to replicate natural human movement — offer a promising path to restored mobility, but the technology is still a work in progress.

1 month ago | builtin.com | Brooke Becher

From autonomous drones to holographic displays, today’s most exciting hardware startups are building the physical components, devices, gadgets and infrastructure that enable the next generation of technology. These companies aren’t just refining what already exists — they’re reimagining what’s possible in industries like defense, energy, mobility, artificial intelligence and advanced computing. Here’s a closer look at some of the top players driving these innovations.

1 month ago | builtin.com | Brooke Becher

As the trade war between the world’s two largest economies escalates, a new flash point has emerged: rare earth metals. In response to the Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs in April — which levied duties as high as 145 percent on Chinese exports to the United States — China not only retaliated with tariffs of up to 125 percent on American goods, but also started leveraging its near-monopoly on these unique materials, which are essential to building modern tech hardware.