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Paralysed woman's thoughts control a DLR robotBonn, Germany (SPX) May 18, 2012 Almost 15 years after being paralysed by a stroke, a 58-year-old US-American woman was once again able to serve herself a drink of coffee. This was possible thanks to a state-of-the-art DLR robot arm and hand that she controlled with neural signals sent directly from her brain. It took just a few moments for her to grasp the drinking bottle with the robot hand, bring it up to her mouth and drink the coffee through a straw. To accomplish this, software decoded neural signals recorded from a s ... read more |
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  JPL Invites all Earthlings to Annual Open House NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., invites the public to its annual Open House on Saturday, June 9, and Sunday, June 10, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event, themed "Great Journeys," wi ... more | .. |
 People with paralysis control robotic arms to reach and grasp using brain computer interface On April 12, 2011, nearly fifteen years after she became paralyzed and unable to speak, a woman controlled a robotic arm by thinking about moving her arm and hand to lift a bottle of coffee to her m ... more | .. |
  Advanced Solar Photonics Increases Capacity to Meet Demand for 400 Watt PV Modules Advanced Solar Photonics has announced that it has expanded production of its 400 Watt monocrystalline solar panels manufactured in Florida. The capacity expansion includes an enhanced produ ... more | .. |
 Solar Eclipse this Weekend New Space Station Crew in Orbit Watching an electron being born Space Systems Loral Provides High Capacity Broadband Satellite to Hughes NASA trains astronauts to land on asteroid German Astronomers Finish Europe's Largest Solar Telescope On Tenerife Ariane 5 ECA rocket orbits JCSAT-13 and VINASAT-2 Mission accomplished |
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 Japan firm unveils gesture controlling device Japanese technology titan NEC has unveiled a gadget that allows users to control their TV, mobile phone or tablet computer using a virtual input device. ... more | .. |
  Floating robots use GPS-enabled smartphones to track water flow A fleet of 100 floating robots took a trip down the Sacramento River in a field test organized by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley. The smartphone-equipped floating robots demonst ... more | .. |
 NASA Robot Competition Rolls Onto WPI Campus June 14-17 Autonomous robots created by 11 teams of engineers from across the country will compete for a NASA prize purse of $1.5 million on the campus of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), in Worcester, M ... more | .. |
Japan's Sharp to sell talking robot vacuum cleaner Japanese electronics giant Sharp said Tuesday it had created a robot vacuum cleaner capable of recognising and responding to simple voice commands in several languages. ... more |
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 Mixed bacterial communities evolve to share resources, not compete Growing risks from hatchery fish Ultrasensitive biosensor promising for medical diagnostics Anthropologists discover earliest form of wall art Farewell to the Sun 5-limbed brittle stars move bilaterally, like people Manmade pollutants may be driving Earth's tropical belt expansion Health experts narrow the hunt for Ebola Protective Clothing With Built-In Air Conditioning UN talks take first steps on 2015 climate deal China blind activist to get passport 'within 15 days' First troops of west African force arrive in G.Bissau Brazil's threatened Awa tribe outnumbered, group says Dalai Lama begins Austria visit | .. |
 Robot reveals the inner workings of brain cells Gaining access to the inner workings of a neuron in the living brain offers a wealth of useful information: its patterns of electrical activity, its shape, even a profile of which genes are turned o ... more | .. |
  Flying 3D eye-bots They can be deployed as additional surveillance resources during major events, or as high-resolution 3D street imaging systems. Intelligent swarms of aerial drones are a universally useful tool for ... more | .. |
 Terraforming a landscape for a robotic rover Challenged to design a background for a small rover controlled from space, students in Germany have delivered a futuristic cityscape. The cool space art will be seen by astronauts in orbit via the r ... more | .. |
 Game-powered machine learning opens door to Google for music Can a computer be taught to automatically label every song on the Internet using sets of examples provided by unpaid music fans? University of California, San Diego engineers have found that the ans ... more |
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  Space Station's Robotic Crew Member Designed to Look, Move and Work Like a Human NASA's first dexterous humanoid robot, has successfully hitched a ride to the International Space Station. Built for the specific purpose of working on the space station, its robotic hands work like ... more | .. |
  NASA Contract to Astrobotic Technology Investigates Prospecting for Lunar Resources Astrobotic Technology Inc. has announced a NASA contract to determine whether its polar rover can deploy an ice-prospecting payload to the Moon. The ice could yield water, oxygen, methane and rocket ... more | .. |
  International Team Installs First Of Three Telescopes In Antarctica A team of scientists representing several international institutions, including Texas A and M University, has succeeded in installing the first of three Antarctic Survey Telescopes (AST3-1) at the C ... more | .. |
 Computer scoring of student work debated Computers may someday help teachers grade their students' essays, and can provide results that mirror human scores, some U.S. educators say. ... more |
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 Outside View: Protection of U.S. citizens TRS delivers key missile defense component Research findings show brain injury to soldiers can arise from exposure to a single explosion A Dozen Lockheed Martin F-35s Now Call Eglin AFB Home Lockheed Martin's Second Generation Aegis BMD System Successfully Intercepts Missile Raytheon awarded $313.8 million for Standard Missile-6 all-up rounds ARL-led program enables new manufacturing processes for ballistic protection Northrop Grumman to Explore Opportunities with Brazilian Machining Companies Syrian: Arms seizure shows rebels arming EU issues mixed report on East neighbors India ready for U.S. howitzer purchase Iran vows never to renounce nuclear 'rights' Armed North Koreans kidnap Chinese sailors US military option on Iran 'ready': envoy to Israel | .. |
 Scientist unveils mind-controlled robot for paraplegics A professor at a Swiss university on Tuesday unveiled a robot that can be controlled by the brainwaves of a paraplegic person wearing an electrode-fitted cap, news agency ATS reported. ... more | .. |
 New brain-machine interface moves a paralyzed hand A new Northwestern Medicine brain-machine technology delivers messages from the brain directly to the muscles - bypassing the spinal cord - to enable voluntary and complex movement of a paralyzed ha ... more | .. |
  Robots fighting wars could be blamed for mistakes on the battlefield As militaries develop autonomous robotic warriors to replace humans on the battlefield, new ethical questions emerge. If a robot in combat has a hardware malfunction or programming glitch that cause ... more | .. |
  Panetta dismisses Iran claims on copying US drone US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Monday dismissed claims by Iran that it had gleaned data from a downed US drone and was now building a copy of the robotic spycraft. ... more |
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 Mini helicopters fly autonomously Swiss researchers say they've helped develop a type of flying robot that can be navigated using only on-board cameras and a miniature computer. ... more | .. |
  Opportunity Benefits From Brighter Skies and Small Dust Cleaning of Solar Panels Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production. The solar insolation ... more | .. |
  Finding ET may require giant robotic leap Autonomous, self-replicating robots - exobots - are the way to explore the universe, find and identify extraterrestrial life and perhaps clean up space debris in the process, according to a Penn Sta ... more | .. |
Robots guard S. Korea prison inmates South Korea has begun testing the feasibility of using robots as prison guards by deploying them in an actual prison in Pohang, officials said. ... more |
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 Eclipsall Awarded Contract to Supply Solar Panels to Ugandan Government A practical guide to green products and services Chocolate and diamonds: Why volcanoes could be a girl's best friend People with paralysis control robotic arms to reach and grasp using brain computer interface Tilting Cars On The Assembly Line: A New Angle On Protecting Autoworkers Research maps the city's heat The quick and easy way to measure power consumption Freshwater crayfish found to have substance covering teeth astonishingly similar to human enamel New twist on ancient math problem could improve medicine, microelectronics China posed for carbon emissions scheme Commentary: 'Challenge Network' Iraq's fourth auction will boost oil hopes US slaps big duties on Chinese solar cells Growth figures show Japan on recovery track | .. |
 NASA Planning Group Takes Key Steps For Future Mars Exploration NASA's Mars Program Planning Group (MPPG), established to assist the agency in developing a new strategy for the exploration of the Red Planet, has begun analyzing options for future robotic mission ... more | .. |
Estonian robots boost global online clothing market Fashion fans have one more reason to swap brick-and-mortar shops for online retailers: a company in tech-savvy Estonia has come up with a way to let you try on new clothes on your own computer. ... more | .. |
 Real-life scientific tail of the first 'electrified snail' The world's first "electrified snail" has joined the menagerie of cockroaches, rats, rabbits and other animals previously implanted with biofuel cells that generate electricity - perhaps for future ... more | .. |
 Robotic cats, a kitten mummy and a major UK vet gathering April 11th sees over 300 world-class veterinary speakers converging for the WSAVA/FECAVA/BSAVA* World Congress 2012 in Birmingham UK. The current issue of the new-look JFMS, timed to coincide with t ... more |
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 NASA seeks new ideas for Mars missions The US space agency said Friday it is seeking fresh ideas for robotic missions to explore Mars, after budget cuts nixed a planned partnership with the European space agency. ... more | .. |
 Pirates, Beware: US Navy Smart Robocopters Will Spy You in the Crowd Navy unmanned aircraft will be able to distinguish small pirate boats from other vessels when an Office of Naval Research (ONR)-funded sensor starts airborne tests this summer, officials said. Calle ... more | .. |
 Private Lunar mission and the future of space tourism Teams from America, Europe and Asia compete for the Google Lunar X-Prize. At stake are $30 mln. The aim is to send privately funded mission to the Moon, to land a robot on its surface able to travel ... more | .. |
U.S. offers $2 million for rescue robot The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency says it is offering a $2 million prize for the design of an advanced rescue robot. ... more |
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