newroboscience by Viraj Gajerahttps://newroboscience.netlify.app/Signals from the frontier of robotics, aerospace and biotechenOrion's Heat Shield Passes Its Crewed Test: NASA's Verdict on Artemis IIhttps://newroboscience.netlify.app/posts/artemis-ii-orion-heat-shield-postflight-verdict/https://newroboscience.netlify.app/posts/artemis-ii-orion-heat-shield-postflight-verdict/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Viraj GajeraAerospaceSix 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.One Camera, One Tiny Brain: The AI Drone That Outflew World Champion Pilotshttps://newroboscience.netlify.app/posts/tu-delft-monorace-ai-drone-beats-champions/https://newroboscience.netlify.app/posts/tu-delft-monorace-ai-drone-beats-champions/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Viraj GajeraRoboticsTU 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.Turning Immune Cells Into Cancer Hunters Without Ever Leaving the Bodyhttps://newroboscience.netlify.app/posts/mit-in-vivo-car-nk-nanoparticles/https://newroboscience.netlify.app/posts/mit-in-vivo-car-nk-nanoparticles/ Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Viraj GajeraBiotechMIT 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.Perseverance Becomes the Farthest-Driving Vehicle on Another Worldhttps://newroboscience.netlify.app/posts/perseverance-off-world-driving-record/https://newroboscience.netlify.app/posts/perseverance-off-world-driving-record/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Viraj GajeraAerospaceNASA'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.A Drone Planner That Promises Not to Crash, Even Around Things It Has Never Seenhttps://newroboscience.netlify.app/posts/mit-sando-drone-collision-free-planner/https://newroboscience.netlify.app/posts/mit-sando-drone-collision-free-planner/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Viraj GajeraRoboticsMIT 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.Precision Gene Editing Gets Sharper, and the Ethics Debate Gets Louderhttps://newroboscience.netlify.app/posts/precision-gene-editing-2026/https://newroboscience.netlify.app/posts/precision-gene-editing-2026/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Viraj GajeraBiotechBase editing in human embryos, AI-designed CRISPR proteins, and a renewed argument about where the line should be.From Simulation to the Real World: Robotics' Big 2026 Conference Seasonhttps://newroboscience.netlify.app/posts/robotics-sim-to-real-2026/https://newroboscience.netlify.app/posts/robotics-sim-to-real-2026/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Viraj GajeraRoboticsIROS 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.Starship Finally Reaches Orbit: What Flight 14 Proved, and What It Didn'thttps://newroboscience.netlify.app/posts/starship-flight-14-reaches-orbit/https://newroboscience.netlify.app/posts/starship-flight-14-reaches-orbit/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Viraj GajeraAerospaceSpaceX'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.