Credits

Product photography: the respective manufacturers.

Photography

Symmetrical aisle between matte black Frontier supercomputer cabinets at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, cable trays overhead and a white perforated floor receding to a vanishing point.. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, CC BY 2.0.
Long, straight aisle through the Sierra supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, black cabinets edged in electric blue light on both sides.. U.S. Department of Energy, Public domain.
Narrow aisle of brushed steel and blue-lit cooling doors in the Frontier supercomputer hall, with bundled power cables hanging from the ceiling.. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, CC BY 2.0.
Low-angle view of the JUWELS supercomputer cabinets, pale grey wave-patterned panels, standing in a bright white hall under a steel truss roof at Forschungszentrum Jülich.. Forschungszentrum Jülich, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.
Bright aisle between matte black Frontier supercomputer cabinets, white perforated floor tiles leading the eye to the far end.. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, CC BY 2.0.
Bare NVIDIA GP100 logic die mounted on a thin glass slide, held by black tweezers against a soft white background.. Fritzchens Fritz, CC0.
Glowing orange HBM memory die on a glass slide, gripped by tweezers against a black background.. Fritzchens Fritz, CC0.
Close-up of an AMD Fiji GPU package: a large silicon die flanked by four HBM memory stacks on a silicon interposer.. C. Spille / pcgameshardware.de, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Silicon wafer covered in a dense grid of chips, catching the light in a rainbow gradient against black.. Enrique Jiménez, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Copper heat pipes set into the polished nickel base of a CPU tower cooler, side-lit on a dark background.. D-Kuru, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT.
White KUKA industrial robot arm raking patterns into sand inside a bare white gallery room, part of the artwork The Beach by Roy Nachum.. Oleg Yunakov, CC BY-SA 4.0.
NASA Valkyrie (R5) humanoid robot in white and gold, hands on hips, photographed against a deep blue studio backdrop.. NASA / Bill Stafford, James Blair, Regan Geeseman, Public domain.
Two Tesla Optimus humanoid robots displayed on round black plinths in front of a whitewashed brick wall.. Ulf Klingström, Public domain.
Full-size TOCABI humanoid robot with red anodised limbs and exposed wiring, posed against a black studio backdrop.. Cadop, CC BY-SA 4.0.
A researcher in a white lab coat leans over a glossy lab bench to prepare samples, her reflection mirrored in the surface.. Sagar Shetty98, CC BY 4.0.
Engineers in white clean-room coats and caps around the NISAR radar satellite in a bright clean room at the U R Rao Satellite Centre in Bengaluru.. NASA/JPL-Caltech, Public domain.
Windhover Hall in the Quadracci Pavilion of the Milwaukee Art Museum: sweeping white ribs, a glossy white floor and small figures silhouetted against the window.. chris.rycroft, CC BY 2.0.
Looking up between the white steel ribs of the Oculus at the World Trade Center in New York, towards a narrow ribbon of skylight.. Bmzuckerman, CC BY 4.0.
A woman pours fresh buffalo milk from a steel measure into a milk can at a village dairy in Andhra Pradesh. ILRI / Stevie Mann, CC BY-SA 2.0, shown in black and white.
Tall jacketed stainless steel storage tanks standing in a processing hall. Subhashish Panigrahi, CC BY-SA 4.0, shown in black and white.
Stainless steel milk tanker truck parked at a farm with its collection hose connected. LID, CC BY-SA 2.0, shown in black and white.
Tall stainless steel milk silos and processing buildings at the Amul dairy plant in Anand, Gujarat. Notnarayan, CC BY-SA 3.0, shown in black and white.
Automatic milk pouch filling machines dropping sealed milk pouches onto a conveyor at a dairy. Nalandadairy, CC BY-SA 4.0, shown in black and white.
Large walk-in cold room with stacks of plastic crates under ceiling evaporator fans. Kopiersperre, CC BY-SA 3.0, shown in black and white.
Milkman on a motorcycle loaded with steel milk cans for his delivery round in Karnal, Haryana. Arne Hückelheim, CC BY-SA 3.0, shown in black and white.
Forklift moving palletised cargo at the open doors of a shipping container at a warehouse dock. Goterrestrial, CC BY 4.0, shown in black and white.
Long rows of tall pallet racking stocked with boxed goods in a bright warehouse. Cortes003, CC BY-SA 3.0, shown in black and white.
Industrial robot arm with a gripper picking white cylindrical parts from a work table. Shixart1985, CC BY 2.0, shown in black and white.
Four-legged robot standing on uneven ground outdoors. Manu amritanshu, CC BY-SA 4.0, shown in black and white.
Ashok Leyland goods lorry waiting outside a tea factory to be loaded. shankar s. from Dubai, united arab emirates, CC BY 2.0, shown in black and white.
A line of fuel tanker trucks parked along a mountain highway in Ladakh. Kiran Jonnalagadda from Bangalore, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, shown in black and white.
Giant paper reels stored on racks either side of an automated stacker crane aisle. FFC1966, CC BY-SA 4.0, shown in black and white.
Heavy duty CNC lathe on display at the IMTEX machine tool show in Bengaluru. Gpkp, CC BY-SA 4.0, shown in black and white.
Workers seated on the floor assembling and testing electric fans in a small factory in Varanasi. Jorge Royan, CC BY-SA 3.0, shown in black and white.
Machinist checking the diameter of a turned steel part with a dial caliper. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Timothy Dimal, Public domain, shown in black and white.
Close view of a 3D printer nozzle laying down the first layers of a part. Subhashish Panigrahi, CC BY-SA 3.0, shown in black and white.
Long aisle between white server rack cabinets in a data centre in Amaravati. PiDatacenters, CC BY-SA 4.0, shown in black and white.
Front entrance of a multi-storey hypermarket in Kannur, Kerala. KV MEHSHAN, CC BY-SA 4.0, shown in black and white.
Supermarket aisle with long shelves of biscuit packets in an Indian hypermarket. Manivanswiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, shown in black and white.
Row of glass door freezer cabinets lining a supermarket aisle. Phillip Pessar, CC BY 2.0, shown in black and white.
Tall shelves stacked with cartons and a row of trolleys in a stockroom. Shixart1985, CC BY 2.0, shown in black and white.
Busy row of supermarket checkout counters with cashiers and shoppers. Wide Awake!, CC BY 4.0, shown in black and white.
Tata Mini Ace goods carrier parked outside a neighbourhood store in Bengaluru. Mr Thinktank from Shanghai, China, CC BY 2.0, shown in black and white.
Three solar powered vaccine refrigerators in a vaccine storage room. CDC Global, CC BY 2.0, shown in black and white.
Portable neonatal resuscitation unit on a wheeled trolley in a hospital corridor in Gurugram. The so so guy, CC BY-SA 4.0, shown in black and white.
Temperature data logger resting on the lid of an insulated vaccine cold box. UNICEF Ukraine, CC BY 2.0, shown in black and white.
Technician positioning a patient in an MRI scanner at a hospital in Jaipur. GeorgeWilliams21, CC BY-SA 4.0, shown in black and white.
Two young doctors in white coats writing patient notes at a desk at AIIMS Bhopal. Archies2804, CC BY-SA 4.0, shown in black and white.
Kirloskar silent diesel generator set installed beside a building in Kolkata. Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0, shown in black and white.

AI Vision

Field frames: DocketRun Tech. Example scenes:

Molten steel pouring from a ladle in a steel plant, sparks across the floor. Donvikro, CC BY-SA 4.0, toned and framed.
Scaffolding climbing the full height of a building under construction in India. Lusi Lindwurm, CC BY-SA 4.0, toned and framed.
A long run of electrical control and relay panels in a plant. Shailesh_telang, CC BY-SA 3.0, toned and framed.
Two tanker trucks parked on the shoulder of a road in Ladakh. Kiran Jonnalagadda from Bangalore, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, toned and framed.
Rows of workers in uniform gathered on a car factory floor in Chennai. U.S. Department of State from United States, Public domain, toned and framed.
A painted Indian goods carrier truck driving toward the camera on a town road. Daniel VILLAFRUELA, CC BY-SA 3.0, toned and framed.
A power transformer behind a chain link fence at an electrical substation in India. Adityamadhav83, CC BY-SA 3.0, toned and framed.
Suitcases and bags left beside a man on a railway platform in Assam. GeoEvan (www.polgeonow.com), CC BY 4.0, toned and framed.
Vehicles queued at the barriers of a toll plaza. Abasaa, Public domain, toned and framed.
Operators at their desks in a power plant control room in India. Shivashishpandey35, CC BY-SA 4.0, toned and framed.
Three isolator switches locked off with yellow danger padlocks and tags. darkday from Brisbane, Australia, CC BY 2.0, toned and framed.
Electrical switchgear panels with danger and caution labels. Zaereth, CC BY-SA 4.0, toned and framed.
A line of medium voltage switchgear cabinets in a switch room. Areklodzpl, CC BY-SA 4.0, toned and framed.
A worker turning the wheel of a large pipeline valve in a field. USDAgov, Public domain, toned and framed.
Processing machines on a factory floor with a worker beside the line. shankar s. from Dubai, united arab emirates, CC BY 2.0, toned and framed.

Face detection: MediaPipe BlazeFace, Apache 2.0, running in your browser.

Lab robot arm: the SO-101 3D model by TheRobotStudio and Hugging Face, from SO-ARM100, Apache License 2.0, recoloured.

Credits

Product photography: the respective manufacturers.

Photography

Symmetrical aisle between matte black Frontier supercomputer cabinets at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, cable trays overhead and a white perforated floor receding to a vanishing point.. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, CC BY 2.0.

Long, straight aisle through the Sierra supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, black cabinets edged in electric blue light on both sides.. U.S. Department of Energy, Public domain.

Narrow aisle of brushed steel and blue-lit cooling doors in the Frontier supercomputer hall, with bundled power cables hanging from the ceiling.. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, CC BY 2.0.

Low-angle view of the JUWELS supercomputer cabinets, pale grey wave-patterned panels, standing in a bright white hall under a steel truss roof at Forschungszentrum Jülich.. Forschungszentrum Jülich, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bright aisle between matte black Frontier supercomputer cabinets, white perforated floor tiles leading the eye to the far end.. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, CC BY 2.0.

Bare NVIDIA GP100 logic die mounted on a thin glass slide, held by black tweezers against a soft white background.. Fritzchens Fritz, CC0.

Glowing orange HBM memory die on a glass slide, gripped by tweezers against a black background.. Fritzchens Fritz, CC0.

Close-up of an AMD Fiji GPU package: a large silicon die flanked by four HBM memory stacks on a silicon interposer.. C. Spille / pcgameshardware.de, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Silicon wafer covered in a dense grid of chips, catching the light in a rainbow gradient against black.. Enrique Jiménez, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Copper heat pipes set into the polished nickel base of a CPU tower cooler, side-lit on a dark background.. D-Kuru, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT.

White KUKA industrial robot arm raking patterns into sand inside a bare white gallery room, part of the artwork The Beach by Roy Nachum.. Oleg Yunakov, CC BY-SA 4.0.

NASA Valkyrie (R5) humanoid robot in white and gold, hands on hips, photographed against a deep blue studio backdrop.. NASA / Bill Stafford, James Blair, Regan Geeseman, Public domain.

Two Tesla Optimus humanoid robots displayed on round black plinths in front of a whitewashed brick wall.. Ulf Klingström, Public domain.

Full-size TOCABI humanoid robot with red anodised limbs and exposed wiring, posed against a black studio backdrop.. Cadop, CC BY-SA 4.0.

A researcher in a white lab coat leans over a glossy lab bench to prepare samples, her reflection mirrored in the surface.. Sagar Shetty98, CC BY 4.0.

Engineers in white clean-room coats and caps around the NISAR radar satellite in a bright clean room at the U R Rao Satellite Centre in Bengaluru.. NASA/JPL-Caltech, Public domain.

Windhover Hall in the Quadracci Pavilion of the Milwaukee Art Museum: sweeping white ribs, a glossy white floor and small figures silhouetted against the window.. chris.rycroft, CC BY 2.0.

Looking up between the white steel ribs of the Oculus at the World Trade Center in New York, towards a narrow ribbon of skylight.. Bmzuckerman, CC BY 4.0.

A woman pours fresh buffalo milk from a steel measure into a milk can at a village dairy in Andhra Pradesh. ILRI / Stevie Mann, CC BY-SA 2.0, shown in black and white.

Tall jacketed stainless steel storage tanks standing in a processing hall. Subhashish Panigrahi, CC BY-SA 4.0, shown in black and white.

Stainless steel milk tanker truck parked at a farm with its collection hose connected. LID, CC BY-SA 2.0, shown in black and white.

Tall stainless steel milk silos and processing buildings at the Amul dairy plant in Anand, Gujarat. Notnarayan, CC BY-SA 3.0, shown in black and white.

Automatic milk pouch filling machines dropping sealed milk pouches onto a conveyor at a dairy. Nalandadairy, CC BY-SA 4.0, shown in black and white.

Large walk-in cold room with stacks of plastic crates under ceiling evaporator fans. Kopiersperre, CC BY-SA 3.0, shown in black and white.

Milkman on a motorcycle loaded with steel milk cans for his delivery round in Karnal, Haryana. Arne Hückelheim, CC BY-SA 3.0, shown in black and white.

Forklift moving palletised cargo at the open doors of a shipping container at a warehouse dock. Goterrestrial, CC BY 4.0, shown in black and white.

Long rows of tall pallet racking stocked with boxed goods in a bright warehouse. Cortes003, CC BY-SA 3.0, shown in black and white.

Industrial robot arm with a gripper picking white cylindrical parts from a work table. Shixart1985, CC BY 2.0, shown in black and white.

Four-legged robot standing on uneven ground outdoors. Manu amritanshu, CC BY-SA 4.0, shown in black and white.

Ashok Leyland goods lorry waiting outside a tea factory to be loaded. shankar s. from Dubai, united arab emirates, CC BY 2.0, shown in black and white.

A line of fuel tanker trucks parked along a mountain highway in Ladakh. Kiran Jonnalagadda from Bangalore, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, shown in black and white.

Giant paper reels stored on racks either side of an automated stacker crane aisle. FFC1966, CC BY-SA 4.0, shown in black and white.

Heavy duty CNC lathe on display at the IMTEX machine tool show in Bengaluru. Gpkp, CC BY-SA 4.0, shown in black and white.

Workers seated on the floor assembling and testing electric fans in a small factory in Varanasi. Jorge Royan, CC BY-SA 3.0, shown in black and white.

Machinist checking the diameter of a turned steel part with a dial caliper. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Timothy Dimal, Public domain, shown in black and white.

Close view of a 3D printer nozzle laying down the first layers of a part. Subhashish Panigrahi, CC BY-SA 3.0, shown in black and white.

Long aisle between white server rack cabinets in a data centre in Amaravati. PiDatacenters, CC BY-SA 4.0, shown in black and white.

Front entrance of a multi-storey hypermarket in Kannur, Kerala. KV MEHSHAN, CC BY-SA 4.0, shown in black and white.

Supermarket aisle with long shelves of biscuit packets in an Indian hypermarket. Manivanswiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, shown in black and white.

Row of glass door freezer cabinets lining a supermarket aisle. Phillip Pessar, CC BY 2.0, shown in black and white.

Tall shelves stacked with cartons and a row of trolleys in a stockroom. Shixart1985, CC BY 2.0, shown in black and white.

Busy row of supermarket checkout counters with cashiers and shoppers. Wide Awake!, CC BY 4.0, shown in black and white.

Tata Mini Ace goods carrier parked outside a neighbourhood store in Bengaluru. Mr Thinktank from Shanghai, China, CC BY 2.0, shown in black and white.

Three solar powered vaccine refrigerators in a vaccine storage room. CDC Global, CC BY 2.0, shown in black and white.

Portable neonatal resuscitation unit on a wheeled trolley in a hospital corridor in Gurugram. The so so guy, CC BY-SA 4.0, shown in black and white.

Temperature data logger resting on the lid of an insulated vaccine cold box. UNICEF Ukraine, CC BY 2.0, shown in black and white.

Technician positioning a patient in an MRI scanner at a hospital in Jaipur. GeorgeWilliams21, CC BY-SA 4.0, shown in black and white.

Two young doctors in white coats writing patient notes at a desk at AIIMS Bhopal. Archies2804, CC BY-SA 4.0, shown in black and white.

Kirloskar silent diesel generator set installed beside a building in Kolkata. Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0, shown in black and white.

AI Vision

Field frames: DocketRun Tech. Example scenes:

Molten steel pouring from a ladle in a steel plant, sparks across the floor. Donvikro, CC BY-SA 4.0, toned and framed.

Scaffolding climbing the full height of a building under construction in India. Lusi Lindwurm, CC BY-SA 4.0, toned and framed.

A long run of electrical control and relay panels in a plant. Shailesh_telang, CC BY-SA 3.0, toned and framed.

Two tanker trucks parked on the shoulder of a road in Ladakh. Kiran Jonnalagadda from Bangalore, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, toned and framed.

Rows of workers in uniform gathered on a car factory floor in Chennai. U.S. Department of State from United States, Public domain, toned and framed.

A painted Indian goods carrier truck driving toward the camera on a town road. Daniel VILLAFRUELA, CC BY-SA 3.0, toned and framed.

A power transformer behind a chain link fence at an electrical substation in India. Adityamadhav83, CC BY-SA 3.0, toned and framed.

Suitcases and bags left beside a man on a railway platform in Assam. GeoEvan (www.polgeonow.com), CC BY 4.0, toned and framed.

Vehicles queued at the barriers of a toll plaza. Abasaa, Public domain, toned and framed.

Operators at their desks in a power plant control room in India. Shivashishpandey35, CC BY-SA 4.0, toned and framed.

Three isolator switches locked off with yellow danger padlocks and tags. darkday from Brisbane, Australia, CC BY 2.0, toned and framed.

Electrical switchgear panels with danger and caution labels. Zaereth, CC BY-SA 4.0, toned and framed.

A line of medium voltage switchgear cabinets in a switch room. Areklodzpl, CC BY-SA 4.0, toned and framed.

A worker turning the wheel of a large pipeline valve in a field. USDAgov, Public domain, toned and framed.

Processing machines on a factory floor with a worker beside the line. shankar s. from Dubai, united arab emirates, CC BY 2.0, toned and framed.

Face detection: MediaPipe BlazeFace, Apache 2.0, running in your browser.

Lab robot arm: the SO-101 3D model by TheRobotStudio and Hugging Face, from SO-ARM100, Apache License 2.0, recoloured.