The future leaves
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Ultium Cells LLC, a joint venture between General Motors and LG Energy Solution, announced plans to produce lithium manganese rich (LMR) prismatic battery cells. This production will take place in Tennessee and is intended for future GM electric vehicles.

A robot AI system has reportedly been developed that can understand human instructions, predict what a scene will look like after an action, and then carry out the task. Rather than simply translating instructions into physical movements, the technology also uses anticipated action outcomes to control the robot.

Installing the SteamOS 3.9.3 beta on a Steam Deck with an encrypted home partition caused the device to stop booting. An instruction warning against installing this build on encrypted machines had been available on Valve's tracker.

According to Ars Technica, the Russian spacecraft Kosmos 2612 closed from hundreds of kilometers away to "extreme proximity" with ICEYE-X36, a satellite reportedly used by Ukraine.

Valve's Proton maintainer closed three bug reports in four days, with the reporter's use of AI tools raised in each closing comment. The bluntest comment criticized the AI-generated report as an excessively wordy mess.

An industry article notes that industrial robots are becoming more compact and more dependent on electronics, with servo drives, power converters, motion controllers, sensors and onboard computing sharing limited space and a common challenge: heat. It discusses cooling issues that robot builders may overlook in compact servo drives and controllers.

Japan has launched a probe for the Martian Moons Exploration mission, which aims to collect and bring back rock samples from Phobos, one of Mars's moons. The report provides few further details.

ASTM International's robotics committee (F45) is developing a proposed standard, WK100792, to measure the task performance of manipulators and mobile manipulators under controlled optical-signal degradation. Member Aarati Noronha notes that real-world conditions can degrade performance; the method would quantify how degraded optical information affects robot task performance.

NASA reports that rockets vibrate, shake and flex intensely during ascent, and spacecraft with delicate instruments must survive those forces. Engineers in NASA's Launch Load Dynamics' Dynamic Environments Group work to predict how these stresses affect every spacecraft part before launch, and the agency says it has improved its shock and vibration analysis methods.

Primepick, a New York-based maker of robotic food kiosks, is expanding, bringing MealMate—a fully certified, unattended kiosk serving hot dishes in 5–7 minutes—to a hospital and a nursing home in the Tri-State area, its fourth and fifth sites.

Bigscreen is developing a 3DoF mode for the Beyond 2 that operates without base stations. Bigscreen also published a statement from HTC, which indicates that dropping the base stations is unlikely.

Skyports Drone Services is providing fully automated Beyond Visual Line of Sight drone-in-a-box surveying for the HumeLink West power lines project in New South Wales, Australia. HumeLink West is part of Transgrid's HumeLink project, which will deliver approximately 140 km of new 500 kV double-circuit transmission lines.

JAXA is leading an international mission to Mars' moon Phobos to collect and return soil samples to Earth. According to the report, success could unlock new clues about the history of the solar system.

Scientific American reports growing alarm over a mysterious approach by a Russian satellite toward a U.S.-owned satellite. The report suggests Russia's military may be probing how close encounters between sensitive spacecraft can get.

Claude Code was reportedly spending usage credits on its own follow-up prompt suggestions whenever the model in use could only be paid for with credits. Anthropic's changelog says version 2.1.302 fixed it, with suggestions now skipped after a reply billed to credits, but the stable version has neither fix.

Research teams at NASA's Glenn Research Center are developing theory and software to predict aircraft engine noise, helping engineers design and analyze new and improved propulsion systems. Copies of the software can be requested from NASA's Software Catalog.

Research teams at NASA's Glenn Research Center conduct experiments in world-class facilities, including the 9- by 15-Foot Low-Speed Wind Tunnel, the Aero-Acoustic Propulsion Laboratory, the Small Hot Jet Acoustic Rig, the Nozzle Acoustic Test Rig, the DGEN AeroPropulsion Research Turbofan, and the Acoustical Testing Laboratory.