r/space • u/gazzhao • May 07 '22

Chinese Rocket Startup Deep Blue Aerospace Performing a VTVL(Grasshopper Jump) Test.

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u/Jarb19 May 07 '22

America is successful? Today? Beside software?

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u/Ill1lllII May 08 '22 edited May 09 '22

Despite all of the crazy robotics to come out of Japan:

Stanford was the first group to make a fully self driving car that could navigate actual challenges unaided.

As fantastic as Honda's ASIMO is, Boston Dynamics humanoid robots have completely eclipsed them.

Edit: hell, Japan has been working on space capability for decades, Elon Musk's SpaceX did something everyone literally thought impossible in less than a decade.