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NASA Swift telescope rescue: a daring orbital first

NASA chi 30 triệu USD cho Katalyst Space Technologies cứu kính thiên văn Swift đang hạ độ cao do lực cản khí quyển tăng từ hoạt động của Mặt Trời. Tàu tự hành "Link" của Katalyst, kích thước tủ lạnh với sải cánh pin mặt trời 12 mét và 3 cánh tay robot, sẽ phóng lên bằng tên lửa Pegasus, tiếp cận, bắt giữ và đẩy quỹ đạo của Swift từ 360km lên 600km. Nếu thành công, đây là tiền đề cho ngành dịch vụ vệ tinh trên quỹ đạo, thậm chí có thể mở rộng sang bảo trì Hubble vào năm 2028.

Lập trình viên nên đọc bài này để hiểu về cách thiết kế và triển khai hệ thống tự động hóa cao độ trong công nghệ không gian, từ đó tìm hiểu ứng dụng của trí tuệ nhân tạo và robotics trong việc phục hồi vệ tinh, mở rộng tiềm năng cho các giải pháp tái sử dụng và bảo trì vệ tinh trong tương lai.

Schneier on Security

The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office used a drone equipped with a high-powered magnet to disarm a suspect by retrieving a knife from their hand inside a residence. The incident, shared on Instagram with the Mission: Impossible theme, is noted as a small but significant step toward robotic law enforcement capabilities.

Ex-Tesla Optimus engineer settles trade secret lawsuit and raises $11M to build robot hands

Proception, a robotics startup founded by ex-Tesla Optimus engineer Jay Li, has settled a year-long trade secret lawsuit with Tesla and raised an $11M seed round led by First Round Capital. The company is now shipping its first dexterous robotic hands — featuring 22 degrees of freedom and a sensor-laden glove for scalable training data collection — to researchers and robotics companies. Tesla had sued Li in June 2025, alleging he downloaded confidential files before leaving to found Proception. The dexterous hand market is heating up globally, with competitors like China's Linkerbot dominating market share and European and Chinese startups raising hundreds of millions. Proception is betting that humanoid robot makers will outsource hand manufacturing rather than build in-house, positioning itself as a key supplier in the emerging humanoid robot supply chain.

Videos: Robot Grippers, Firefighting Robots, and More

A weekly curated collection of robotics videos from IEEE Spectrum, featuring highlights such as a disembodied robotic hand crawling on three fingers from Tangent Robotics, MIT CSAIL's SoftMimic approach for safer human-robot interaction, Agility Robotics' Digit navigating obstacles, an aggressive firefighting robot from DEEP Robotics, Unitree R1 humanoid performance, event cameras handling motion, and research on using AI-driven robots to understand whale communication. Upcoming robotics events including RSS 2026, IROS 2026, and Actuate 2026 are also listed.

LLMs help robots understand vague instructions and focus on key details

MIT CSAIL researchers developed 'Masked Inverse Reinforcement Learning' (Masked IRL), a system that uses two LLMs to help robots interpret vague human instructions and identify which environmental details matter for task execution. The first LLM elaborates on ambiguous prompts based on kinesthetic demonstration data, while the second scores environmental elements as relevant or irrelevant, masking unnecessary details. This approach requires nearly five times less demonstration data than comparable methods and outperformed baselines by up to 15% in correctly identifying unstated user preferences. A real robotic arm trained on 50 demonstrations successfully navigated around obstacles like laptops while completing tasks such as moving cups and wiping tables.

Robotaxis drives miles just to get cleaned and charged; this new startup wants to fix that

Aseon Labs, a Redwood City startup from Y Combinator's 2026 spring cohort, has raised $10M in seed funding to build parking space-sized automated pods that clean, inspect, and charge robotaxis in-city. The core problem they address is 'deadhead miles' — empty trips robotaxis make to distant depots — which hurt fleet utilization and profitability. Their pods use robotic arms, cameras, and vision-language-action AI models to handle routine maintenance autonomously, while flagging complex issues for human handling at central depots. The units are designed as temporary structures to avoid lengthy permitting and can be relocated if a site underperforms. No robotaxi contracts have been signed yet, but the company plans to build five prototypes and grow its team with the new funding.

Web Tool Lets You Take Steam Controller For A Drive

A web tool lets you drive a Steam Controller across a desk like a bristlebot by controlling its rumble motors via a Chromium-based browser. Using WASD inputs, the interface spins the controller's vibration motors at specific frequencies to achieve forward, backward, and turning movement. The project is made possible by Valve's openness in releasing hardware documentation for their products.