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NASA Mars Lander Prepares To Move Arm
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 28, 2008NASA's Phoenix Lander is ready to begin moving its robotic arm, first unlatching its wrist and then flexing its elbow. Mission scientists are eager to move Phoenix's robotic arm, for that arm will deliver samples of icy terrain to their instruments made to study this unexplored Martian environment. The team sent commands for moving the arm on Tuesday morning, May 27, to NASA's Mars R ... more A Biomimetic Jumping Microrobot 
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 27, 2008Researchers from the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL are unveiling a novel, grasshopper-inspired jumping robot at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation May 21 in Pasadena, California. The robot weighs a miniscule 7 grams, and can jump 1.4 meters, or more than 27 times its body size -- ten times farther for its size and weight than any existing jumping robot ... more Phoenix Spacecraft Reports Good Health After Mars Landing 
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 26, 2008More than a generation after NASA landed the twin Vikings on Mars in 1976, the United States has reacquired the ability to land on Mars using retro rockets and opening the way to much larger robotic spacecraft to be sent to Mars including Mars Science Lab - a mobile robotic lab. In the meantime, rocket engineers and planetary scientists are ecstatic that the Phoenix has landed in the Martian northern arctic region where it will dig for signs of life and much more. ... more iRobot Receives Orders For 200 More Infantry Robots 
Bedford MA (SPX) May 27, 2008iRobot Corp has received orders under two separate contracts from the U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (PEO STRI), that manages these contracts on behalf of the Robotic Systems Joint Project Office at Warren, Mich. and Huntsville, Ala. PEO STRI placed a $16 million order, the third under the xBot contract, to put more than 200 robots and spar ... more Phoenix Set To Rise Tomorrow For A Busy 90 Days On Mars 
Tucson AZ (SPX) May 26, 2008NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars today to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander's robotic arm. Radio signals received at 4:53:44 p.m. Pacific Time (7:53:44 p.m. Eastern Time) confirmed the Phoenix Mars Lander had survived its difficult final descent and touchdown 15 minutes ear ... more |
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Westminster MD (SPX) May 21, 2008General 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, 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 |
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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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