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MIT Combat Robotics Club Rebuilds Fighting Robots That Smash and Survive in the Arena

By Jackson Chung November 7, 2026

Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology spend evenings and weekends inside the Edgerton Center turning raw metal into machines built to slam into one another at high speed. The Combat Robotics Club restarted in 2023 after a quiet stretch that followed earlier members graduating during the pandemic years. Anhad Sawhney gathered a fresh group with almost no prior experience in the sport, and within months they had produced a 30-pound robot named ARES that now ranks among the stronger entries in the National Havoc Robot League.

Tesla Cybertruck Production Winds Down Next Year Freeing Space for Cybercab Robotaxis

By Bill Smith November 7, 2026

Production of Tesla’s stainless steel pickup will wind down at the company’s Texas factory around the middle of 2027 so the plant can build more Cybercabs, Elon Musk said in a post on X. First customer Cybertruck deliveries began in late 2023 after delays from the 2019 unveiling. Musk later clarified that assembly continues for another eight or nine months before the focus shifts fully to scaling the robotaxi. The Texas site is the only factory equipped for the truck’s specialized parts, so relocating the line looks unlikely.

Maker Builds CardboardXR With Five Dollar Parts to Challenge Apple Vision Pro

By Jackson Chung November 7, 2026

A brand new Apple Vision Pro still starts at $3,699 before taxes, and even a used unit rarely drops into easy reach for most people. Brenpoly decided that gap was wide enough to test something far simpler. He took a modern smartphone, a 3D printer, and a pair of old Google Cardboard lenses that still sell for about five dollars, then turned them into CardboardXR, a working mixed reality setup that delivers six degrees of freedom tracking, camera passthrough, surface detection, and hand gestures.

Hookshot Pulls the Switch 2 Ocarina of Time Remake Straight Onto Windows PCs

By Bill Smith November 6, 2026

One day after Nintendo put the rebuilt Ocarina of Time on Switch 2, a project called NotRexed Hookshot already lets owners of the game run it as a regular Windows program. NotRexed, the same developer behind earlier native ports of other Nintendo titles, posted early screenshots and then opened the full source on GitHub. Anyone with a matching copy of the remake can feed the files into the tools and end up with an executable that launches the adventure without an emulator sitting in the middle.

FlexiQuad Drone From ETH Zurich Survives Collisions and Still Flies at High Speed

By Jackson Chung November 6, 2026

Luca Girardi and Stefano Mintchev spent years at ETH Zurich’s Environmental Robotics Lab refining a four-rotor drone that looks more like a bright orange ring than a conventional flying machine. Rotors, batteries, and the flight controller sit evenly spaced around that soft loop, with nothing in the middle. When the prototype hits an obstacle the frame gives way sideways, soaking up energy before springing back. Vertical stiffness stays high enough that the motors still push the craft through the air without losing control.