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Tests Check Out Robotic Rescue Life-Saving Vision
Gaithersburg, MD (SPX) Jun 17, 2008To save lives, search and rescue robots crawling through the rubble of a collapsed building or surveying a chemical spill area must be capable of beaming back clear, easily interpretable images of what they 'see" to operators and emergency planners, working away from the immediate disaster site. A new ASTM International standard, developed under a National Institute of Standards and ... more NASA Tests Lunar Robots And Spacesuits On Earthly Moonscape 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 16, 2008Conditions on the moon will be harsher, but prototype NASA robotic vehicles braved sand storms and unprecedented temperature swings this month on sand dunes near Moses Lake, Wash., to prepare for future lunar expeditions. Teams from seven NASA centers and several universities conducted the tests from June 2-13. "The goal was to gain hands-on experience with specific technical challenges a ... more NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Inspects Delivered Soil Samples 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 16, 2008New observations from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander provide the most magnified view ever seen of Martian soil, showing particles clumping together even at the smallest visible scale. In the past two days, two instruments on the lander deck -- a microscope and a bake-and-sniff analyzer -- have begun inspecting soil samples delivered by the scoop on Phoenix's Robotic Arm. "This is the ... more After whole lotta shakin', Mars probe ready to bake 
Washington (AFP) June 11, 2008Scientists were all smiles Wednesday after samples of Martian arctic soil finally dropped into the Phoenix lander's oven instrument, putting the search for signs of past life on Mars back on track. The probe's robotic arm had dumped arctic dirt into one of its eight Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer (TEGA) last Friday, but only a few particles from the clumpy soil in Mars's far north made it ... more NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Delivers Soil Sample To Microscope 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 13, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander sprinkled a spoonful of Martian soil Wednesday onto the sample wheel of the spacecraft's robotic microscope station, images received early Thursday confirmed. "It looks like a light dusting and that's just what we wanted. The Robotic Arm team did a great job," said Michael Hecht of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. He is the lead scientist for th ... more |
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Washington (AFP) June 9, 2008Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide put the robotic arm of the Japanese Kibo module through its paces Monday before stowing it away, as the shuttle Discovery crew completed its mission at the International Space Station. Hoshide extended the 10.06-meter (33-foot) metallic arm and tested all its six joints as engineers monitored its every move from the Kibo control center in Tokyo. ... more QinetiQ North America Ships First MAARS Robot 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 10, 2008QinetiQ has announced that QinetiQ North America's Technology Solutions Group has shipped the first MAARS ground robot to the US military under a contract from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal/Low-Intensity Conflict (EOD/LIC) Program within the Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO). MAARS (Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System) is the first fully modular ground robot system ... more Energy ministers get 'buddy' humanoids 
Aomori, Japan (AFP) June 8, 2008Cabinet ministers from the world's biggest economies who gathered in Japan for grim talks on energy security have one tiny thing to celebrate -- the world's smallest humanoid robot. The Japanese hosts plan to send all 11 ministers special editions of the 16.5-centimetre (half-foot) robot after wowing them with the toy at a dinner Saturday. "With this, you won't forget about me," Japan's ... more NASA chief backs proposal for European spaceship 
Paris (AFP) June 5, 2008NASA chief Mike Griffin on Thursday threw his weight behind calls for Europe to build its own manned spacecraft. The experience of the US shuttle, to be retired in 2010, highlighted the need for multiple systems to provide backup for the International Space Station (ISS), Griffin told reporters in Paris. Griffin praised a robot European freighter that carried out a maiden automatic docki ... more Third Scoop Is A Keeper For Phoenix Mars Lander 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 06, 2008Two practice rounds of digging and dumping the clumpy soil at the Martian arctic site this week gave scientists and engineers gathered at the University of Arizona confidence to begin using Phoenix's Robotic Arm to deliver soil samples to instruments on the lander deck. Those samples will not be collected before Thursday. Following Wednesday's briefing on the mission, the Phoenix tea ... more |
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Washington (AFP) May 29, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars lander flexed its robotic arm Thursday in a successful test of the key element in the probe's mission to investigate the Red Planet's soil for conditions conducive to life, NASA said. "The arm is ready to go," said Matt Robinson of the US space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where the Phoenix mission is managed. "Yesterday we sent commands ... more Phoenix Spacecraft Commanded To Unstow Arm 
Tucson (LPL) May 29, 2008Scientists leading NASA's Phoenix Mars mission from the University of Arizona in Tucson sent commands to unstow its robotic arm and take more images of its landing site early today. The Phoenix lander sent back new sharp color images from Mars late yesterday. Phoenix imaging scientists made a color mosaic of images taken by the lander's Surface Stereo Imager on landing day, May 25, and th ... more 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
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