From Mocked Idea to Reality: Mechazilla Has Now Caught Starship Too
XFreeze · x · 2026-11-15
XFreeze looks back at SpaceX's "crazy" journey: in December 2020 Elon Musk tweeted that SpaceX would try to catch the Super Heavy booster with the launch tower arm using the grid fins — an idea many called insane. Now SpaceX has caught not only the Super Heavy booster but Starship itself with the Mechazilla tower. What was once a wild post is now history.
Related event: Starship Caught by Launch Tower Chopsticks After 22 Hours in Orbit(23 posts)→
More from Embodied
- Drone swarms tie knots in midair to lift objects autonomously — lukas_m_ziegler · 2026-11-15
- World Model Hallucination Paper Wins Best Paper at CoRL 2026 PhysWM Workshop — LerrelPinto · 2026-11-15
- Ropedia Xperience 2: aligning scene scans and human actions for robot simulation reuse — liuziwei7 · 2026-11-15
- Parking robots could automate existing cars without waiting for fleet turnover — TansuYegen · 2026-11-15
- DJI-alum startup's camera robot Beni launches in China at ¥4,999 — 量子位 · 2026-11-15
- iPhone computer-use agent coming soon under MIT license with 2.1ms typing — vincent_koc · 2026-11-15