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X PRIZE Foundation Holds Team Summit On Private Moon Race To Land A Robot
Strasbourg, France (SPX) May 22, 2008
The X PRIZE Foundation today announced four new teams in the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a robotic race to the Moon to win a remarkable $30 million in prizes, bringing the total number of registered teams to 14. This international group of teams will compete to land a privately funded robotic craft on the Moon that is capable of roaming the lunar surface for at least 500 meters and sending video ... read more
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    GD Delivers First USV To US Navy For LCS
    Westminster MD (SPX) May 21, 2008
    General Dynamics Robotic Systems delivered the first 11-meter "Fleet" class Anti-Submarine Warfare Unmanned Surface Vehicle (ASW USV) to the U.S. Navy on May 2 as part of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) mission package. General Dynamics Robotic Systems is a part of General Dynamics Land Systems (Sterling Heights, Michigan), a business unit of General Dynamics. General Dynamics has ... more

    Unlocking The Secrets Of The Deep Sea Crust
    Durham, UK (SPX) May 19, 2008
    Scientists 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, 2008
    Manz 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, 2008
    More 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, 2008
    Technology 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

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    Raytheon Sarcos Exoskeleton Robotic Suit Linked To Iron Man Superhero
    Tewksbury MA (SPX) May 05, 2008
    Raytheon's newest research facility in Salt Lake City, Utah, is developing a robotic suit for the soldier of tomorrow. Known as an "Exoskeleton," it is essentially a wearable robot that amplifies its wearer's strength, endurance, and agility. In its May issue, Popular Science magazine likens the Exoskeleton to the "Iron Man" in the movie of the same name and suggests a blurring of the lines ... more

    2009 Solar Decathlon Competitor Cornell University To Feature INSTEON
    Ithaca NY (SPX) Apr 30, 2008
    SmartLabs 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, 2008
    Northrop 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, 2008
    A 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

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    Surgeons use robots during heart surgery
    Boston, April 9, 2008
    Some U.S. surgeons say they've started using robots to assist them in heart bypass surgery, producing smaller incisions, less pain and fewer complications. Boston Medical Center Dr. Robert Poston said his facility is one of only nine U.S. hospitals to offer robot-assisted coronary artery bypass graft, or CABG, surgery. CABG involves removing or re-directing a blood vessel from on ... more

    Evolution On The Table Top
    Washington DC (SPX) Apr 09, 2008
    Evolution 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, 2008
    Spirit 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, 2008
    Europe'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, 2008
    Europe'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

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