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OFC 2026 drew 18,000 attendees as ST entered high-volume silicon photonics production, Lumentum showed VCSEL co-packaged optics, Coherent demoed a 6.4T CPO engine, and startups began sampling 3.2T photonic chips.
A $2.1 billion Navy program has drawn at least a dozen competitors to build autonomous warships, while commercial shipping firms deploy AI navigation on thousands of vessels and the IMO targets May 2026 for its first autonomous shipping code.
Boston Dynamics and Ghost Robotics report surging demand for quadruped robots at data centers, where Spot and Vision 60 units now patrol perimeters, detect thermal anomalies, and slash security costs as the US races to build more than 800 new facilities.
CATL and BYD are mass-producing sodium-ion batteries for EVs and grid storage in 2026, driven by soaring lithium prices and abundant raw materials, while the West struggles to keep pace.
2026 marks the transition from noisy quantum experiments to error-corrected commercial systems, with neutral atom platforms from QuEra, Atom Computing, and Pasqal leading the charge.