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Unlocking The Secrets Of The Deep Sea Crust
Durham, UK (SPX) May 19, 2008Scientists from Durham University will use robots to explore the depths of the Atlantic Ocean to study the growth of underwater volcanoes that build the Earth's crust. The Durham experts will lead an international team of 12 scientists aboard Britain's Royal Research Ship James Cook which will set sail from Ponta Delgada, San Miguel, in the Azores on Friday, May 23. During the five-week ... more Optomec And Manz Automation Enter Into A Strategic Partnership Agreement 
Albuquerque NM (SPX) May 15, 2008Manz Automation AG Fraunhofer ISE is the largest solar energy research institute in Europe. Optomec has entered into an exclusive OEM partnership agreement with Manz Automation AG to jointly pursue applications in the Solar market. Manz Automation AG, based in Reutlingen, Germany, is one of the world's leading suppliers of automation, quality inspection, chemical wet processes and laser ... more ConnectivityWeek 2008 - IT-Powered, Sustainable-Energy Smart Grid Initiative 
Santa Clara CA (SPX) May 19, 2008More than 150 industry, government and academic energy experts will gather together to debate how to best harness sustainable energy and information technology to solve the country's energy needs during ConnectivityWeek 2008 at the Santa Clara Convention Center from May 20 - 22. The conference focuses on the intelligent connectivity among building automation, demand response and smart-grid ... more LIDAR Detector Will Build Three-Dimensional Super Roadmaps Of Planets And Moons 
Rochester NY (SPX) May 16, 2008Technology that could someday "MapQuest" Mars and other bodies in the solar system is under development at Rochester Institute of Technology's Rochester Imaging Detector Laboratory, in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory. Three-Dimensional "super roadmaps" of other planets and moons would provide robots, astronauts and engineers details ... more Robot conducts Detroit orchestra 
Detroit, Michigan (AFP) May 14, 2008High tech met high art late Tuesday when a robot conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. It was the first time an orchestra was handed over to a robot and the diminutive, spaceman-like machine got rave reviews. Both the audience and performers burst into applause after Honda's ASIMO (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility) robot led the symphony in a performance of "The Impossible Dream" ... more |
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Ithaca NY (SPX) Apr 30, 2008SmartLabs announces that Cornell University has chosen INSTEON home automation technology as an integral piece of their home build in the 2009 Solar Decathlon at the National Mall in Washington, DC, fall of 2009. The competition is comprised of twenty University based teams, each given $100,000 to showcase the design, build and operation of a home completely powered by solar energy. ... more Northrop Grumman To Provide New STARLite Radar For US Army Unmanned Vehicle Application 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Apr 29, 2008Northrop Grumman has been selected by the U.S. Army Communication-Electronics Life Cycle Management Command to produce the new multi-function radar for the Extended Range/Multi-Purpose Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Radar program. Under the terms of the initial $42 million contract with the Command's Robotics and Unmanned Systems Program Management Office, Northrop Grumman will deliver 10 ... more Outside View: Work on Chernobyl continues 
Moscow, April 28, 2008 The Chernobyl nuclear power plant must have a new confinement shelter for its 4th reactor, which exploded on April 26, 1986. The old shelter was built hastily, in emergency conditions when robots went mad but people continued to work. It sufficed in the short term, but time and severe weather conditions have weakened it. The new confinement will be safe for 100 years. The European Bank ... more More Trouble For Opportunity's Robotic Arm 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 25, 2008A small motor in the robotic arm of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity that began stalling occasionally more than two years ago has become more troublesome recently. Rover engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., are diagnosing why the motor, one of five in the robotic arm, stalled on April 14 after much less motion that day than in the case of several earlier stal ... more Lockheed Martin Autonomous Car Takes A Lap At The Toyota Grand Prix 
Cherry Hill NJ (SPX) Apr 24, 2008Most people don't go to auto races to see cars parade around the track in single file at 30 miles an hour. Then again, most race cars include drivers. Lockheed Martin Racing Team's autonomous car joined two others at the Toyota Long Beach Grand Prix on April 20 for the first ever Robotic Grand Prix. While not technically a race, the cars demonstrated to 180,000 race fans that robotic cars ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Apr 09, 2008Evolution has taken another step away from being dismissed as "a theory" in the classroom, thanks to a new paper published this week in the online open-access journal PLoS Biology. The research article, by Brian Paegel and Gerald Joyce of The Scripps Research Institute, California, documents the automation of evolution: they have produced a computer-controlled system that can drive the evolution ... more Spirit Phones Home To Reset Clock As Energy Levels Plummet For Mars Rover 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 05, 2008Spirit is feeling the strain of juggling activities on Mars in the face of declining power levels as the winter Sun sinks lower on the horizon. After acquiring compositional data from a rock target informally named "Wendell Pruitt," Spirit had to wait a few sols (Martian days) to have enough energy to conduct atmospheric studies and move the robotic arm out of the way for a panoramic-camera ... more European Space Freighter cleared to dock with ISS: ESA 
Paris (AFP) April 2, 2008Europe's brand-new robot space freighter received final clearance to dock with the International Space Station (ISS), officials at the European Space Agency announced Wednesday. The Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), named the Jules Verne after the French pioneer of science fiction, will make its first attempt to link up to the orbiting space station on Thursday at 1441 GMT, said ESA management ... more In maiden voyage, European space freighter docks with ISS
Toulouse, France (AFP) April 3, 2008Europe's robot freighter successfully docked on its maiden voyage Thursday with the International Space Station, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced. The Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) hooked up with mankind's orbiting outpost at 1445 GMT, prompting cheers and applause to erupt at mission control in this southwestern French city. Named after French science fiction pioneer Jules ... more Scientists Discover 10 New Planets Outside Solar System 
Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Apr 02, 2008An international team of astronomers has found 10 new "extra solar" planets, planets that orbit stars other than our sun. The team used a system of robotic cameras that yield a great deal of information about these other worlds, some of which are quite exotic. The system is expected to revolutionize scientific understanding of how planets form. Two participating astronomers from the U.S. ... more
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