Artemis II rollout puts crew safety tests in the spotlight
An SLS rollout is a 12-hour, four-mile reminder that the most difficult part of returning astronauts to lunar distance is…
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A robot face mapped its own muscles, then lip-synced from online videos
What would it take to make a humanoid convincingly believable and only to find that a couple of millimeters of…
Why robot touch is moving from data streams to spikes
Each time a robot fingertip measures continuous pressure values, it stands a chance of using more energy to transfer data…
SpaceX Burns One Falcon 9 While Pushing Starlink Toward Bigger Satellites
A Falcon 9 without landing legs is a bit like a sprinter who has come to the track without his…
Atlas Enters Factories by Doing the Boring Work First
What propels a humanoid robot towards inevitability is rarely a moonshot. It is a small, repeatable task done well and…
Mustang Dark Horse SC Puts a Supercharger Where the Gap Was
What happens when a flagship track ‘Mustang’ sits so far above the lineup that the space beneath it becomes its…
Why Gateway’s PPE Treats Electricity as the Mission’s Main Fuel
Within a vacuum chamber at NASA’s Glenn Research Center, a 12-kilowatt Hall thruster ejects a characteristic blue plume a picture…
Falcon 9 Brings the Boom, Then Builds a Different Spy Satellite Era
A Falcon 9 landing can be the loudest aspect of a mission that the public is least allowed to witness….
Nuclear Power Could Transform Human Presence on the Moon
“What would be required to maintain a human settlement during a two-week lunar darkness? The response is straightforward for NASA…