4+ hour, 59+ min ago  (604+ words) A mission to raise the orbit of NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is poised for launch no earlier than Tuesday, June 30, 6: 23 a. m. EDT (10: 23 p. m. UTC+12), from Kwajalein Atoll, part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. A…...

3+ hour, 23+ min ago  (226+ words) The challenge concluded June 25 following final technical presentations near NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Since September 2025, student teams from across the nation have designed systems'level approaches to enhance the performance and reliability of environmental control and life…...

9+ hour, 53+ min ago  (928+ words) Mirage News Imagine working at a warehouse or office sometime in the near future, and you're asked to help a new trainee learn the basics of their job. The catch: It's a robot. To teach them, you might want to…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (382+ words) They are going for the win at the Robo Cup in the port city of Incheon. This year, they are betting on two horses: the trusted, pyramid-shaped wheeled robots that have brought them the world title eight times, as well…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (649+ words) RICHLAND, Wash. -Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory use a slew of autonomous robots for designing and implementing experiments. However, setting up an experiment on an autonomous lab robot is surprisingly slow. The effort requires a…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (784+ words) Mirage News HKU Engineering Team Clinches Back-to-Back Victory at Robocon Hong Kong 2026 The teams Sapientia and Virtus of the HKU Robocon group from the Faculty of Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) clinched multiple awards at this year's…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (196+ words) HKUMed research team pioneers robot-assisted microsurgery in Hong Kong and has successfully completed 48 procedures. The team members include Dr Velda Chow Ling-yu (left) and Professor Albert Chan Chi-yan. Microsurgery is one of the most technically demanding disciplines in surgery, requiring…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (204+ words) KAIST researchers have begun developing a next-generation brain-robot interface platform that uses human brain signals to control an exoskeleton in real time and sends the tactile and force information sensed by the robot back to the brain. < "Figure 2. Hierarchical Robot Control Architecture Inspired by Human Motor Mechanisms > According to the…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (588+ words) Researchers at Adelaide University have developed a new type of robotic system inspired by bees and ants that could make mining safer, more efficient and more sustainable. Published in Natural Sciences, the research looks at how social insects work together…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago  (365+ words) The laboratory is quiet. No researchers in lab coats. No busy hands, no chatter. Only buzzing robotic arms that make chemical experiments all by themselves. It sounds like a scene from a sci-fi movie, but it's actually becoming a reality…...