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Mechanical Design & Robotics

Nuclear-Powered Cargo Ships Face One Obstacle Bigger Than Fuel

Thomas Caldwell
Mechanical Design & Robotics

Phantom Chessboard Revealed: Luxury Woodcraft Meets Silent Robotics

Jonathan Barrett
Mechanical Design & Robotics

CATL Deploys Humanoid Robots for Battery Line Automation

Jonathan Barrett
Mechanical Design & Robotics

BEV-Patch-PF Slashes Off-Road Trajectory Error by 7.5× in GPS-Denied Navigation

Jonathan Barrett
Mechanical Design & Robotics

World’s Smallest Autonomous Robots with Ion-Driven Propulsion Revealed

Jonathan Barrett
Mechanical Design & Robotics

Surprising Fracture Path Deflection in Liquid Crystal Elastomers Revealed

Thomas Caldwell
Mechanical Design & Robotics

Artificial Hydrogel Tendons Supercharge Muscle-Powered Robots

Edward Collins
Mechanical Design & Robotics

MIT & Stanford’s Vine-Inspired Gripper Redefines Soft Robotics Lifting

Jonathan Barrett
Mechanical Design & Robotics

Unitree Humanoid Robot Hacked in 60 Seconds Security Gaps Exposed

Jonathan Barrett
Mechanical Design & Robotics

Kansas City Lumberyard Inferno Spurs Robotic Firefighting and Safety Debate

Jonathan Barrett
Mechanical Design & Robotics

Laundry-Folding Bots and Billion-Dollar Valuations: Humanoids Go Mainstream

Jonathan Barrett

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Aerospace & Spaceflight

Why Falcon Heavy’s Return Matters Beyond One Satellite

David Whitaker
Aerospace & Spaceflight

Why Russia’s ISS Cargo Runs Still Depend on Baikonur

David Whitaker
Aerospace & Spaceflight

X-Ray Glow Reveals the Solar System’s Hidden Outer Shield

David Whitaker
Aerospace & Spaceflight

Hubble at 36 Gets Rare Close-Up From Another Satellite

David Whitaker
David Whitaker

Why Falcon Heavy’s Return Matters Beyond One Satellite

The infrequent launch rate of heavy-lift rockets has drawn attention towards the Falcon Heavy due to the fact that launches of such vehicles are quite uncommon. Return flight of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket after an 18-month period will not only be a launch, but also remind people that some...