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DTN 071: The Return of Thermonuclear Spaceships
Plus: Robots mapping the ocean floor, the Pentagon's $141B doomsday plan, graphene brain implants, UK's laser weapon, and more.
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Plus: Robots mapping the ocean floor, the Pentagon's $141B doomsday plan, graphene brain implants, UK's laser weapon, and more.
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Oliver Gunsekara is the CEO and co-founder of Impossible Metals, developing an innovative fleet of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) designed to selectively harvest polymetallic nodules from the ocean floor while minimizing environmental impact.
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Plus: AI-driven copper mining, freeze-dried woolly mammoths, 3D printer for rockets, National Guard's pocket-sized drones, and more.
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Oluseun Taiwo, co-founder and CEO of Solideon, is revolutionizing aerospace manufacturing through the integration of AI, ML, collaborative robots, and cutting-edge 3D printing techniques.
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Rory Brown is the CEO and co-founder of Airhive, a UK startup pioneering a hybrid geochemical-DAC technology that harnesses fluidization to achieve rapid, cost-effective CO2 removal.
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Plus: Supersonic rocketplanes, kamikaze hoverboards, solar-covered canals, robots controlled by a brain in jar, and more.
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Gabe Elias is the CEO of Material Hybrid Manufacturing, a company actualizing research on multi-material 3D printing for battery applications.
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Plus: Biomanufacturing to reshape organ transplants, grid batteries are booming, quantum's make-or-break moment, growing chickens in 3D printed eggs, Japan sells out of robot wolves, in-space refueling demo, and more.
Plus: Helium-3 lunar gold rush, Virgin Galactic to begin commercial service, Cowboy files for 20k orbital data centers, non-viral gene therapy, real life gundams, and more.
Plus: China opens rocket launches to international satellites, the future of IVF, a geothermal IPO, big tech targets drug discovery, DARPA eyes commercial space boom, and more.
Plus: Pentagon's drone spending spree, air taxis come to NYC, Zuck's virtual biology initiative, DeepSeek's new model, FDA wants to accelerate clinical trails with AI, and more.
Plus: New Glenn suffers upper stage malfunction, China ramps up satellite capacity, cracks in fusion's funding boom, robot marathon, slime-like artificial muscles, cocaine-fueled salmon, and more.
Paul Veugen is co-founder and partner at NP-Hard Ventures, an Amsterdam-based early-stage venture capital firm investing in pre-seed and seed companies solving the hardest problems across robotics, defense tech, and foundational infrastructure.
Plus: nuclear reactors on the moon, implantable pharmacies, 3D printing batteries, first complete human genome loaded onto quantum computer, Science Corp gets ready for brain implant, ARPA-E doubles down on fusion, and more.
Nirmesh Patel is an investor at Amino Collective, an early-stage health and bio fund investing at the intersection of AI and the life sciences.
Plus: New frontiers for neural data, the race to land rovers on the moon, Antares receives DOE approval for demo reactor, General Atomics pauses drone wingman flight tests, and more.
Karen Baert is co-founder and CEO of Ammobia, a climate tech startup developing a lower-cost, lower-pressure process for clean ammonia production.
Plus: Navy's big bet on automated submarine production, Texas' $350M nuclear fund, demoing underground wireless communication, the gig workers training humanoid robots, and more.
Nima Ashraf is the founder and managing director of Physical Fund, a pre-seed venture fund investing in robotics and automation startups building at the intersection of hardware and software.