Awesome Engineering
The most impressive engineering feats in and around AI, explained
Lithography
The one machine that can print AI's next chips
ASML's High-NA EUV tool costs around $380m, weighs 165 tonnes and prints with light from exploding tin focused by the smoothest mirrors ever made; the pace of AI compute now depends on how many exist
15 min read
Space
Why some things can only be made in space
By building products that can only form where there is no gravity to pull them apart, and stitching satellites together with beams of light instead of radio, orbit is turning from a place we visit into a place we make things
9 min read
Autonomous Vehicles
How do you prove a self-driving car is safer than you?
Half a million paid driverless rides a week generate the miles; turning them into a peer-reviewed claim of fewer injuries than human drivers is an engineering discipline in itself
7 min read