The register

Every tracked technology, its claimed and verified readiness, and the gap between them. Free to read — how these scores are made.

First recorded 1990 – 2026

showing 60 of 267 entries

First recorded	Technology	Discipline	Claimed	Verified	Gap
2023-04-14	ESA JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer)	Space Launch & Satellites	55	48	+7
2023-09-24	OSIRIS-REx Bennu Sample Return	Space Resources & In-Space Manufacturing	92	79	+13
2023-07-31	Vogtle Unit 3 Commercial Operation	Fusion & Advanced Nuclear	100	61	+39
2023-10-13	DOE Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs ($7B H2Hubs)	Solar, Grid & Green Hydrogen	45	36	+9
2026-06-01	Tandem PV 4-Terminal Perovskite-Silicon Module	Solar, Grid & Green Hydrogen	45	37	+8
2026-08-14	Rolls-Royce/TCS 100% Hydrogen Aero Gas Turbine Flight-Cycle Test	Aviation & Sustainable Flight	30	19	+11
2025-11-07	SLAC Ultrafast Copper Melting Discovery	Fusion & Advanced Nuclear	15	14	+1
2014	Nuclea Energy SSR-W (Stable Salt Reactor–Wasteburner)	Fusion & Advanced Nuclear	25	18	+7
2026-07-07	UIUC Electrochemical Redox-Active Metal-Recovery Molecule	Mining, Critical Minerals & Recycling	20	18	+2
2026-02-18	Heron Power Heron Link	Energy Grid & Virtual Power Plants	35	29	+6
2026-08-10	Rocket Lab GHOST (Global Hypersonic & Orbital Spaceport Technology)	Space Launch & Satellites	35	32	+3
2026-06	Apollo Power Panda Plus	Solar, Grid & Green Hydrogen	85	51	+34
2026-08-06	LEAP Space Serrano Engine	Space Launch & Satellites	40	37	+3
2026-07-23	Step-Geometry-Guided Rhombohedral (ABC) Graphene Growth	Nanomaterials & 2D Materials	25	23	+2
2026-07-31	TSMC/NYCU 0.42 nm Epitaxial Al2O3 Interface for MoS2 Transistors	Nanomaterials & 2D Materials	25	21	+4
2026-08-05	Encapsulation-Epitaxy Air-Stable Monolayer NbSe2	Nanomaterials & 2D Materials	25	22	+3
2026-08-01	NIMTE LECO Aluminum-Free-Paste TOPCon Cell (26.31%)	Solar, Grid & Green Hydrogen	50	44	+6
2023-12-27	JAC Yiwei Sodium-Ion Battery EV	Batteries & Energy Storage	55	44	+11
2024-03-08	Lunar Outpost Starweave (Autonomous Robotic Swarm Software)	Space Resources & In-Space Manufacturing	30	23	+7
2026-01-28	DOE Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses	Fusion & Advanced Nuclear	12	10	+2
2024-06	Zap Energy Century Sheared-Flow-Stabilized Z-Pinch Platform	Fusion & Advanced Nuclear	25	15	+10
2026-07-22	Orienspace Gravity-1 First Long-Range Sea Launch	Space Launch & Satellites	75	69	+6
2026-07-22	Samsung Heavy Industries + Sargent & Lundy Standardized Floating SMR (FSMR) Platform	Fusion & Advanced Nuclear	25	20	+5
2023-10-12	Toyota Solid-State Battery (Idemitsu Partnership)	Batteries & Energy Storage	50	39	+11
2026-07-18	Tesla 1.2 MW Public Megacharger for Semi (Bloomington, CA)	Batteries & Energy Storage	60	40	+20
2026-07-21	Estes Levius Magnesium Processing Platform + Magnus Battery System	Batteries & Energy Storage	70	66	+4
2026-07-20	MAGIC Deep-Space CubeSat Magnetometer	Weather & Atmospheric Science	25	22	+3
2026-07-19	KAIST Light-Driven Shape-Memory Alloy Meta-Morphing Structures	Smart Textiles & Programmable Materials	25	18	+7
2026-06-17	Purdue Cobalt-Aluminum Nanolaminate (CoAl Intermetallic)	Advanced Materials & Manufacturing	15	9	+6
2026-07-06	Cosmoserve Mission Embrace (Soft Robotic Debris Capture)	Space Resources & In-Space Manufacturing	45	41	+4
2026-07-13	John Cockerill Hydrogen First French-Made Electrolyzer Stack	Solar, Grid & Green Hydrogen	50	43	+7
2025-01-28	Boom Supersonic XB-1 Supersonic Flight (Boomless Cruise)	Aviation & Sustainable Flight	50	45	+5
2024-06-25	Chang'e 6 — First Lunar Far-Side Sample Return	Space Resources & In-Space Manufacturing	100	93	+7
2026-07-09	HZB Perovskite Triple-Junction Solar Cell (GO/SAM Bilayer)	Solar, Grid & Green Hydrogen	20	18	+2
2026-07-10	Long March 10B First-Stage Sea Recovery	Space Launch & Satellites	60	54	+6
2026-07-07	Airbus–MTU Flying Fuel Cell Electric Hydrogen Aircraft Engine	Aviation & Sustainable Flight	30	29	+1
2026-07-04	Aalo Atomics Aalo-X Critical Test Reactor	Fusion & Advanced Nuclear	40	36	+4
2025-12-16	ML-Discovered Kagome Superconductors (YRu3B2 / LuRu3B2)	Computational Materials & Chemistry Discovery	12	6	+6
2026-06-15	Katalyst Space LINK Orbit-Boost Servicer	Space Resources & In-Space Manufacturing	55	49	+6
2024-01-02	Vineyard Wind 1 First Power	Solar, Grid & Green Hydrogen	37	27	+10
2024-02-22	Intuitive Machines Odysseus (IM-1) — First Commercial Moon Landing	Space Launch & Satellites	70	65	+5
2025-01-20	EAST Tokamak 1,066-Second Steady-State H-Mode Plasma	Fusion & Advanced Nuclear	30	28	+2
2025-11-24	Buildroid AI	Construction & Built-Environment Tech	45	30	+15
2026-04-16	Grid Rails VPP Platform	Energy Grid & Virtual Power Plants	45	13	+32
2026-01	Intech iFusion450-8	3D Printing & Additive Manufacturing	60	48	+12
2018	KoBold Metals (Machine Prospector / TerraShed)	Mining, Critical Minerals & Recycling	70	58	+12
2023-05	Matbench Discovery	Computational Materials & Chemistry Discovery	90	74	+16
2026-03-11	OpenVPP 2.0	Energy Grid & Virtual Power Plants	55	19	+36
2026-06-16	Phoenix Tailings Freedom Facility	Mining, Critical Minerals & Recycling	55	42	+13
2024-02-15	Sage Geosystems Geopressured Geothermal System	Geothermal & Subsurface Energy	65	53	+12
2015	Seurat Area Printing	3D Printing & Additive Manufacturing	58	37	+21
2023	Aquagga Steed Series HALT PFAS Destruction	Water & Desalination Tech	70	63	+7
2018-03-09	Commonwealth Fusion SPARC	Fusion & Advanced Nuclear	45	41	+4
2025-05-19	Electric Hydrogen HYPRPlant 100 MW Electrolyzer	Solar, Grid & Green Hydrogen	68	54	+14
2024-07-11	IBAT Modular Direct Lithium Extraction Plant	Mining, Critical Minerals & Recycling	80	54	+26
2024-10-08	Lithios Advanced Lithium Extraction (ALE)	Mining, Critical Minerals & Recycling	55	37	+18
2026-04-16	Mangrove Lithium Delta Refinery	Mining, Critical Minerals & Recycling	78	70	+8
2023-09	Orbital Marine O2-X Tidal Turbine	Oceans & Blue Economy Tech	50	42	+8
2023-08	Prometheus Materials ProZERO	Construction & Built-Environment Tech	70	60	+10
2025-05-14	UMA (Universal Models for Atoms)	Computational Materials & Chemistry Discovery	80	67	+13