Interesting Engineering

🪖 The U.S. Army is testing COA-GPT, an AI-powered planning platform that can generate and adapt battlefield plans in seconds while keeping human commanders in control. 🔗 https://link.ie.social/Ihx8Fz

🤖 Shanghai Electric unveiled new industrial humanoid robots with dual-battery hot swapping, enabling continuous factory operations alongside AI-powered smart manufacturing systems. 🔗 https://link.ie.social/0qtZft

⛏️ A U.S. rare earth project in Idaho has uncovered a yttrium-rich heavy rare earth zone, boosting efforts to strengthen domestic supplies of critical minerals outside China. 🔗 https://link.ie.social/q3OeKs

🚛 Aurora has launched its second-generation driverless trucks, featuring hardware built to last one million miles as it scales autonomous freight operations across the U.S. 🔗 https://link.ie.social/uW8WE4

Watch the full video to explore the four engineering approaches—landing legs, tower catches, mid-air captures, and China's new cable-catching system—that could shape the future of reusable rockets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mQOU8In-Aw