Saronic's second 180-foot Marauder autonomous ship is in the water under its own power at the former Gulf Craft yard in Franklin, Louisiana. CEO Dino Mavrookas says the hull took 8% fewer labor hours than the first, and the yard aims for 20 Marauders a year once a roughly $250M rebuild finishes. The rate is a company target, not a contract, but a yard that was shutting down is now tracking labor hours per hull.
Joe Harris of Alloy lays out how robotics teams get to 1,000 deployed robots: L0 to L3 support tiers, uploading MCAP run logs, and a learning loop where each fix reaches the whole fleet. He draws on agriculture, defense, maritime and humanoid fleets. It comes from a vendor, but robots per support person is a useful number for any ops team running a fleet.
For robotics and operations leads: a support and learning model for scaling a robot fleet.
J.D. Capelouto's election-night thread mapped local bans, project votes and recalls aimed at data centers across about 40 localities in 13 states. It drew about 1.03M views and 2,200 bookmarks as races were called. Pair it with the Latitude and DCD tallies: siting is now decided at the county level.
YC-backed CaladhTech, founded by a former DARPA maritime technologist, is building electronic-warfare buoys to jam hostile naval drones and sensor-cloaking technology meant to hide undersea cables and pipelines. The company has published few specs so far. Protecting subsea energy and data links is becoming its own hardware market.
