In November 2026, a milestone will be reached in human space exploration when Voyager 1 becomes the first man-made object to travel a full light-day away from Earth. Launched in 1977, this remarkable ...

By learning from human touch, robots can grip objects more safely and adapt to real-world conditions without massive training ...

Chinese researchers claim to have found evidence that large language models (LLMs) can comprehend and process natural objects like human beings. This, they suggest, is done spontaneously even without ...

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When you think fast, you typically think of sports cars or the speed of a bullet, but do you ever think about satellites, or more specifically, space probes? The question as to what is the fastest ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe dove extremely close to the solar surface on Dec. 24. The spacecraft should get nearer to the sun than any other human-made object in history — within 3.86 million miles. The ...

Figure 2. Human multi-object grasping strategy and the developed gripper : Humans can repeatedly grasp and store objects one by one using finger-to-palm translation, allowing multiple objects to be ...