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Six months after Artemis II splashed down, NASA's engineering analysis finds Orion's heat shield behaved as predicted, with about one-tenth the char damage seen after the uncrewed Artemis I flight.
Six months after Artemis II splashed down, NASA's engineering analysis finds Orion's heat shield behaved as predicted, with about one-tenth the char damage seen after the uncrewed Artemis I flight.
TU Delft's MonoRace drone, steered by a small neural network and a single camera, beat every autonomous rival and three former human world champions at an international race in Abu Dhabi.
MIT engineers used targeted lipid nanoparticles to reprogram natural killer cells inside mice, clearing tumors and healing an autoimmune liver disease without any lab-grown cells.
NASA's Perseverance rover has passed Opportunity's long-standing record for distance driven beyond Earth, largely by doing its own navigating across the Martian terrain.
MIT engineers built SANDO, a flight planner that keeps drones clear of moving obstacles in unmapped spaces by reasoning only about how fast those obstacles could possibly travel.
Base editing in human embryos, AI-designed CRISPR proteins, and a renewed argument about where the line should be.
IROS 2026 just wrapped in Pittsburgh with nearly 5,000 submissions, and the dominant theme of the year is teaching robots in virtual worlds so they work in ours.
SpaceX's giant rocket made it to Earth orbit for the first time on September 28, 2026, deployed a batch of next-generation satellites, then cut its mission short.
Scanning the world's research…
Orion's Artemis I char loss came down to gas that could not escape. What if a heat shield's permeability were engineered, zone by zone, as carefully as its thickness?
Combining autonomous quality inspection with self-healing materials could close the loop from defect to repair.
Reusable boosters fly again and again. Their parts should be able to tell us how much life they have left.
Viraj Gajera is a Research and Development Engineer in New York, USA working on computational multiphysics, aerospace propulsion, physics-informed prognostics, biomedical engineering and intelligent manufacturing. On newroboscience he turns frontier research into clear explainers, always crediting the original researchers, and shares open ideas for others to build on.
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