Index.

Every Bright discovery, plainly: 215 records with their evidence state, the date the source was published, the date Bright added it, and where it sits on the physical scale. The 14 scales on the front page are a curated edition drawn from this list.

36 of 215 records, sorted by scale (ascending). Scale is approximate: the size of the subject itself, or of the setting where the work happens. Records with no honest physical size are off the axis.
RecordScaleEvidencePublishedAdded to BrightWho
A warehouse robot that knows when to stop squeezing.On the scale: an item in a robot’s grip ≈ 8 cm, size of the settingDeployednot shown by the source2026-09-07Amazon Robotics
A screen reader that can take a follow-up question. ≈ 15 cm, size of the settingDeployed2025-05-152026-09-07Google, Project Euphonia, University College London Centre for Digital Language Inclusion
Reasoning weights people can run themselves.On the scale: the laptop in front of you ≈ 30 cm, size of the settingDeployed2025-08-052026-09-07OpenAI
Two hundred and seven building blocks for AI in a browser. ≈ 30 cm, size of the settingEmerging2026-09-012026-09-19Hugging Face
A voice in everyday life.On the scale: two people talking ≈ 1 m, size of the settingEmerging2026-06-152026-09-06UC Davis & BrainGate collaborators
A way back to conversation.On the scale: two people talking ≈ 1 m, size of the settingEmerging2024-08-142026-09-05UC Davis
Faster to start, but not the coach everyone wanted. ≈ 1 m, size of the settingDemonstrated2026-08-032026-09-19Study authors and clinical partners
One implant, speech and gesture together. ≈ 1 m, size of the settingEmerging2026-09-142026-09-19University of California, San Francisco
Reading patterns in glucose over time. ≈ 1.7 m, size of the settingExperimental2025-01-072026-09-09Weizmann Institute, Pheno.AI, NVIDIA
Easing the hour before surgery. ≈ 3 m, size of the settingDemonstrated2026-09-262026-09-27Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center
A boat that notices what it collects. ≈ 5 m, size of the settingDeployed2024-10-172026-09-09Clearbot, NVIDIA
A teacher and an AI tutor after school.On the scale: a classroom ≈ 10 m, size of the settingDemonstrated2025-05-192026-09-07World Bank, Edo State Secondary Education Board, SmartEdge
The students' job was to doubt the discovery. ≈ 10 m, size of the settingEmerging2026-09-142026-09-19Allen Institute for AI, University of Washington
When the answer arrives too soon.On the scale: a classroom ≈ 10 m, size of the settingDemonstrated2025-06-252026-09-07University of Pennsylvania, Budapest British International School
A walk that chooses what to describe. ≈ 20 m, size of the settingEmerging2025-06-042026-09-07Beijing Outstanding Young Scientist Program, Xiaomi Foundation
A public archive that starts with your question. ≈ 30 m, size of the settingDeployed2025-11-182026-09-07National Archives and Records Administration, National Archives Foundation
A field image that asks for less tilling. ≈ 100 m, size of the settingExperimental2025-01-242026-09-07npj Sustainable Agriculture
A grower sees water stress before walking the field. ≈ 100 m, size of the settingDeployed2026-06-162026-09-19İmeceMobil, Microsoft
A hybrid cooling system cut direct water use at an operating national-laboratory data center. ≈ 100 m, size of the settingDeployed2019-05-012026-09-19National Renewable Energy Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Johnson Controls
A warehouse inventory check that rolls itself. ≈ 100 m, size of the settingDemonstrated2025-03-032026-09-07GXO Logistics, Dexory
Lasers matched the herbicides.On the scale: a field ≈ 100 m, size of the settingDeployed2025-06-242026-09-09Cornell AgriTech, Rutgers University, Western Growers
A city report separates today’s campus workforce from expansion forecasts. ≈ 1 km, size of the settingDeployed2025-06-272026-09-19City of New Albany, Ohio, Meta
A city-owned reuse loop cut one data-center campus’s demand for potable groundwater. ≈ 1 km, size of the settingDeployed2026-07-062026-09-19City of Quincy, Washington, Microsoft, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
A construction safety role became a data-center operations career. ≈ 1 km, size of the settingDeployed2022-10-192026-09-19Google, Alphabet
Google’s careers material maps the work inside a data center. ≈ 1 km, size of the settingDeployednot shown by the source2026-09-19Google
Making room in a data centerOn the scale: a computing campus ≈ 1 km, size of the settingDeployed2025-05-142026-09-07Google DeepMind, Google
Quieting the mirrors that listen to spaceOn the scale: a ripple from space ≈ 4 km, size of the settingDemonstrated2025-09-042026-09-07Google DeepMind, LIGO, Caltech
A Finnish district-heating network has used data-center heat since 2015. ≈ 10 km, size of the settingDeployed2025-08-272026-09-19Nivos, Nordic Investment Bank, Municipality of Mäntsälä
A smoke alert still reaches a person. ≈ 20 km, size of the settingDeployed2025-05-082026-09-09Pano AI, NVIDIA
A shared picture for people protecting wildlife. ≈ 50 km, size of the settingEmerging2025-03-032026-09-09Ai2, NVIDIA
A flood map reaches places without gauges. ≈ 100 km, size of the settingDeployed2026-08-182026-09-19Google Research
More time before the flood. ≈ 100 km, size of the settingDemonstrated2024-03-202026-09-05Google Research
A GPU goes into orbit. ≈ 500 km, size of the settingEmergingnot shown by the source2026-09-09Starcloud, NVIDIA
An Earth model runs above the Earth. ≈ 500 km, size of the settingExperimental2026-05-072026-09-19NASA, IBM Research, Kanyini mission
A medicine budget aimed where it could do more. ≈ 1,000 km, size of the settingDemonstrated2026-04-292026-09-19Government and research partners in Sierra Leone
More time to decide when to plant.On the scale: a subcontinent’s rains ≈ 2,000 km, size of the settingDeployed2025-12-022026-09-07India Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, University of Chicago Development Innovation Lab, India Meteorological Department

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