Mechanical Design & Robotics What a Humanoid Tennis Rally Reveals About Real-World Control Jonathan BarrettJanuary 5, 2026January 5, 20260 “On this New Year’s Day, we open a new chapter with a human-robot tennis rally. Witness the powerful and precise…
Mechanical Design & Robotics Serve Robotics (SERV) Hits 2,000 Delivery Robots Across U.S. Cities Jonathan BarrettJanuary 5, 2026January 5, 20260 A sidewalk robot fleet is only operationally meaningful when it reaches the scale at which rare edge cases stop being…
Aerospace & Spaceflight Starlink starts “significant reconfiguration” with a 480-kilometer shift David WhitakerJanuary 5, 2026January 5, 20260 “Starlink is beginning a significant reconfiguration of its satellite constellation focused on increasing space safety,” said Michael Nicolls, SpaceX VP…
Aerospace & Spaceflight Starliner Crew Flight Test Slips Again Over Helium Leak David WhitakerJanuary 5, 2026January 5, 20260 Schedules for human spaceflight rarely break because a single part fails utterly. More often, the pace is set by small…
Mechanical Design & Robotics Tesla Optimus’ Viral Wipeout Exposes the Hard Part of Humanoids Jonathan BarrettJanuary 5, 2026January 5, 20260 Because the public reads a stumble as a verdict on autonomy, safety, and honesty all at once, a single clumsy…
Aerospace & Spaceflight New Glenn readies for a pivotal test… reusability meets orbital logistics David WhitakerJanuary 5, 2026January 5, 20260 “We have rigorously prepared for this initial launch. However, actual flight is irreplaceable experience. Regardless of the outcome, we are…
Aerospace & Spaceflight Will NASA and Boeing’s Starliner Fly Again in 2026? David WhitakerJanuary 5, 2026January 5, 20260 “Starliner is working on its redemption arc.” That framing, however informal, captures where Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner now sits within NASA’s…
Aerospace & Spaceflight First 2026 Starlink Launch Puts a New Falcon 9 to Work David WhitakerJanuary 5, 2026January 5, 20260 “Deployment of 29 Starlink satellites confirmed,” SpaceX tweeted on X after launching the first batch of 2026 Starlink spacecraft into…