Science
Swift Rescue Failure Tests Robotic Satellite Servicing
NASA’s cancelled effort to lift the Swift observatory illustrates both the scientific value of ageing spacecraft and the unforgiving limits of hurried in-orbit servicing.
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robotics
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robotics covers its essential concepts, wider context, practical applications and developments across technology, business and society.
AI
Anthropic’s Plan for AI Agents in the Physical World
Anthropic’s Model Hardware Standard is an early attempt to make AI-controlled laboratory and factory equipment more interoperable, but its real test will be whether technical guardrails can keep pace with physical risk.
Science
NASA Ends Swift Telescope Rescue Attempt
NASA has ended the attempt to raise the orbit of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after faults on the commercial servicing spacecraft LINK made a capture unsafe, but the mission will still test selected rendezvous capabilities.
AI
Could Physical AI and World Models Change the World?
World models and embodied AI could make machines more capable in the physical world, but dependable deployment will depend on advances in data, testing and safety as much as model scale.
AI
Gemini Robotics 2 Pushes Google AI Into Robot Control
Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics 2 expands Gemini from digital reasoning into robot control, but its uneven task results show how far physical AI still has to travel.