2 claims in “technology, materials science”
AI and robotics adoption in energy production and mining is expanding, with robots being copper intensive, creating a secondary supply chain constraint where robots require copper to be built and mined, potentially leading to self-reproducing automation cycles.
Z-plan optical glass, producible only in microgravity, has a transmission window approximately 5 times wider than traditional silica glass and signal loss 10 to 100 times better than traditional silica glass, making it potentially revolutionary for global data transmission.