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Brooke Becher
Staff Reporter at Built In
Expertise: Hardware and Robotics
Education: University of Lincoln, United Kingdom; California State University, Long Beach
Brooke Becher is a Built In staff reporter covering hardware and robotics. Based out of Los Angeles, she’s been writing culture features and reporting local news since 2014.
Becher holds a master’s degree in journalism and international human rights from the University of Lincoln, based in the United Kingdom, as well as a bachelor’s in journalism and mass communication from California State University, Long Beach. Her dissertation analyzed the nation’s narrative on rape culture through Western, online news media coverage, spanning the American political spectrum.
Past works are featured in LA Weekly, The Orange County Register, GOOD Magazine, Long Beach Press Telegram, California Business Journal and Los Angeles Magazine.
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The Trump administration is letting American chip makers like Nvidia and AMD sell select AI chips to China again. While these chips aren’t the most advanced, they restore vital compute power Chinese companies had previously been denied.
Mechatronics engineers fuse their knowledge of hardware, software and intelligent automation to build machines that can think, navigate and adapt to the physical world.
The wealthiest in the world trust these companies to manage and multiply their assets.
Inspired by nature, swarms intelligence allows multiple machines to move and act as one, coordinating their efforts to perform complex tasks more efficiently than any single machine could do alone.
Steelmaking is a major climate offender. Green steel is working to fix that by replacing coal with cleaner alternatives. But is it ready for mass adoption?
First used in Ancient Egypt, subtractive manufacturing methods are now being used to cut, drill, mill and shape materials for cutting-edge industries like aerospace and medical devices. Here’s how it works.
Human-robot interaction explores how robots can understand and respond to human behavior — from hand signals to facial expressions — in an effort to make these machines feel more like collaborative partners than tools.
Designed to operate with little to no input from human pilots, AI fighter jets promise to make combat faster and safer. But their development also raises concerns over the morality of delegating life-and-death decisions to artificial intelligence.
Graphene is the thinnest material in the world — and one of the strongest — with the potential to transform semiconductors, sports equipment and more. But moving this breakthrough from the lab to the real world remains a challenge.
Founded by Elon Musk, the Boring Company aims to build underground “Loop” tunnels that shuttle passengers around in autonomous EVs. It already has a system up and running in Las Vegas, and is pursuing projects in cities like Nashville and Dubai.
This decarbonization method traps CO₂ from industrial sites and stores it deep underground, potentially cutting up to 15 percent of global emissions by 2070. But most current projects use it to extract more oil instead of storing it permanently.
From DeFi and gaming to NFTs and AI, these widely used decentralized apps show how Web3 is reshaping what we do online — without centralized control.