China is determined to “beat us in space” and “we must face them head on just like we defeated the Soviet Union in the race to the Moon.” 🇺🇸🫡

Earth rise, Earth set, repeat! Blue Ghost's third and final lunar orbit maneuver is complete! Early this morning, our #GhostRiders performed a 16-second burn with our RCS thrusters to enter a near-circular low lunar orbit. Up next, we'll perform a 19-second Descent Orbit

It’s not every day that you get an opinion article published in Scientific American! This piece started as one of those “crazy” ideas—shaped through conversations with brilliant minds like Ignacio López-Francos and spontaneous thoughts shared during a panel discussion with philosopher

Three lunar landers are on their way to the Moon! Here’s a summary of the landing dates:

🧵1/2: Flight controllers confirmed that Athena completed lunar orbit insertion with enough accuracy to forego the IM-2 mission's optional lunar correction maneuver. Athena continues to be in excellent health, completing lunar orbits every two hours, waiting for the sun to rise

For 25% of the Winter 2025 batch, 95% of lines of code are LLM generated. That’s not a typo. The age of vibe coding is here.

Excited to announce the CfP for the 2nd Space Robotics Workshop #SRW2025, to be held in conjunction with IEEE SMC-IT/SCC 2025 Conference this summer in LA! 😎 Submission deadline: May 2nd, 2025 Website: bit.ly/srw2025 Please help us spread the word! 🙏

What will 2030 look like?

Starship will hopefully depart for Mars at the end of next year with Optimus explorer robots!

Smart move by Microsoft, given the market dominance (and growing threat to Copilot Studio/Azure Foundry) posed by ChatGPT Enterprise.

"Pythagoras explaining his theorem, in ancient Greece" Video and audio generated by Veo 3 natively.

Venture firms including Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and Thrive Capital are testing a new investment strategy, involving acquiring mature, low-tech service businesses and modernizing them with AI tools internally. These targets, such as call centers, accounting firms, and

Biggest autonomy challenge in navigation is efficiently dealing with unstructured envs. Constraining the system to a defined space (a "box"), makes the generalization problem more tractable--focused on the specific objects/ tasks you want the system to recognize/execute.

Pretty amazing. Waymo surpasses Lyft and on track to pass Uber in next 12 months

Fly me to the Moon 🎵🌝 RESILIENCE status: nominal Distance above the Lunar surface: ca. 100 km Current orbital phase: Low lunar orbit, traveling at ca. 5,800 km/h RESILIENCE remains in a circular orbit as landing day approaches. This video was captured from lunar orbit by

I'm still trying to wrap my head around this. It's unbelievable that the generational NASA leadership Elon wanted, to help the rest of the industry catch up to SpaceX, that is so critical to national security, US hard and soft power, and the future of our entire civilization, was

If simulation is the key enabler for reaching the ChatGPT moment in robotics, Google DeepMind Genie 3 (interactive generative world model) looks like the inflection point that could massively accelerate the timeline.

The first successful landing on Mars started 50 years ago with the launch of the Viking I mission in August of 1975, atop a Titan-Centaur rocket. The Viking I lander eventually touched down on the red planet in July of ’76. We need to keep focused on the goal to put humans on