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🇧🇷Brazilian President Lula da Silva’s campaign has petitioned the top electoral court to disqualify right-wing rival @FlavioBolsonaro ahead of Sunday’s runoff, accusing @Meta of restricting Lula content on @Instagram, @Facebook and…

When Alef welcomed Tesla to the flying car race, it pointed to one fundamental technical difference. Alef lifts off with distributed electric propulsion, or DEP, while Tesla's upcoming Roadster relies on cold-gas thrusters. That sounds…

"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads." 🛞 The Tesla Roadster launch event has wrapped up, and here is everything you should know from the presentation 🔥 Right out of the gate, flying cars are officially real, and what Tesla and…

Roadster transforms in Track Mode These aero features aren't just for looks: they provide the best passive downforce package of any road car (approaching F1 levels!) with wing actuation driven by the @Tesla_Optimus actuator system…

Walmart and Wing are expanding drone delivery to the Denver and Seattle metro areas next year, according to a press release. https://t.co/q86CEq5kmP

.@ReactiveDrone examines how rotary-wing UAVs have rapidly evolved, transitioning from agricultural and commercial surveying tools into advanced multirotor platforms engineered for complex defense and reconnaissance operations in Ukraine…

This looks like a giant dragonfly, but every movement here is mechanical. Festo’s BionicOpter weighs only 175 grams, yet its four wings span 63 cm. They beat around 15 to 20 times per second, and each wing can twist up to 90 degrees. That…

Meet Aliptera’s VTOL concept aircraft, built around its Lip Wing technology. The design uses an elliptically curved wing that can generate additional lift at low speeds, combined with a tilting shrouded propeller system for VTOL and…

TL;DR ⏳ Now you see it, now you don't 🧙 Tesla's new patent (US 2026/0285418 A1) gives the Roadster a wing that vanishes into the bodywork, then erupts into 700 kg of race-car downforce on command 🔥 🫥 Invisible on the street: The wing…

Lowe’s has launched a drone delivery pilot at a North Carolina store in partnership with DoorDash and Alphabet’s Wing, the home improvement retailer announced Thursday. https://t.co/xTONkaoChD

DeltaQuad has launched the Evo-LE, a long-endurance electric fixed-wing VTOL platform designed for ISTAR missions, offering up to eight hours of flight time. Read more: https://t.co/vPXFnP7UAC

XPENG keeps making the line between a car company and a robotics company more interesting. The X-wing doors, full-width light bar and low stance make the flagship look like something from a different category. And with @XPENG_Global…

Meet Squire, an autonomous sea glider drone built by REGENT that uses wing-in-ground effect to fly just above the water. Flying close to the surface helps it travel efficiently at speeds of up to 70 knots while staying difficult for…

Bio-inspired engineering by Festo. Nature has already solved many of the problems we deal with every day. 🌱 Festo produces mechanical animals called Bionics series. It combines mechanical engineering with biology and nature. Nature is a…

A robot that swims underwater, then flies straight out of it! 🦢 Water is 1,000 times denser than air. Moving through one or the other normally means two completely different machines. Around 100 bird species disagree. Loons, gulls,…

Post Log in Sign up Post wafer on X: "We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised a $40M Series A! co-led by @MarathonMP and @chemistry, with participation from @Wing\VC, @AMD Ventures, @outsetcap, @fiftyyears, and @ycombinator, and our…

NVIDIA Announces Jetson Orin Nano 2 Robotics Computer to Redefine Entry-Level Edge AI August 25, 2026 News Summary: - NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 2, a new robotics computer for entry-level edge AI, enables millions of developers worldwide to…

In Weekly Robotics 370, you'll learn about designing an underground robot scheduler, an open-source L2 autopilot, the problem with robot-centric deployment data for general robots, an interesting flat-packed fixed-wing, and more!