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Phoenix Scrapes Almost Perfect Icy Soil For Analysis
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 02, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander enlarged the "Snow White" trench and scraped up little piles of icy soil on Saturday, June 28, the 33rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Scientists say that the scrapings are ideal for the lander's analytical instruments. The robotic arm on Phoenix used the blade on its scoop to make 50 scrapes in the icy layer buried under subsurface soil. The robotic arm ... more Bayer Uses InSync Software To Develop And Deploy RFID And Sensor Applications 
San Jose CA (SPX) Jul 02, 2008Bayer Material Science has announced it is deploying a series of RFID and sensor-enabled warehousing and logistics automation solutions using InSync's Edgeware platform. InSync's technology allows Bayer to rapidly build, test, and deploy multiple solutions using a single, common application platform. Bayer has deployed its first solution which manages and automates the placement and picking ... more Early Origins Of Maize In Mexico 
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 02, 2008The ancestors of maize originally grew wild in Mexico and were radically different from the plant that is now one of the most important crops in the world. While the evidence is clear that maize was first domesticated in Mexico, the time and location of the earliest domestication and dispersal events are still in dispute. Now, in addition to more traditional macrobotanical and archeological ... more Voith Siemens Hydro Awarded Contract For New Hydro Turbine Generators 
York PA (SPX) Jul 02, 2008Voith Siemens Hydro and American Municipal Power-Ohio (AMP-Ohio) have signed a contract for the complete supply of mechanical, electrical, automation and balance of plant equipment on a significant hydroelectric project that will add more than 208 MW of emission-free generation to existing dams on the Ohio River and has the potential to bring green manufacturing jobs to Ohio. The new ... more Phoenix Scrapes To Icy Soil In Wonderland 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 30, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scraped to icy soil in the "Wonderland" area on Thursday, June 26, confirming that surface soil, subsurface soil and icy soil can be sampled at a single trench. Phoenix scientists are now assured they have a complete soil-layer profile in Wonderland's "Snow White" extended trench. By rasping to icy soil, the robotic arm on Phoenix proved it could flatten ... more |
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Moffet Field CA (SPX) Jun 24, 2008The Phoenix mission landed in the martian northern plains on May 25. Since then, the lander's robotic arm has scooped up soil and delivered it to the science instruments for testing. The hope is that Phoenix will discover organic molecules in the red soil - if it does, that improves the odds that life could exist on Mars. Phoenix already has found evidence for water ice beneath the top lay ... more Phoenix lander confirms presence of ice on Mars 
Washington (AFP) June 20, 2008Scientists rejoiced Friday after the Phoenix Mars lander confirmed their long-held belief that ice is hiding under the surface in the Red Planet's northern region. The lander's robotic arm started digging trenches into Martian soil after touching down near the planet's north pole on May 25, revealing a white substance that scientists had said could be either salt or ice. Phoenix flexed ... more Frozen Water Confirmed On Mars 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2008Scientists relishing confirmation of water ice near the surface beside NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander anticipate even bigger discoveries from the robotic mission in the weeks ahead. "It is with great pride and a lot of joy that I announce that we have found proof that this hard bright material is really water ice and not some other substance," said Phoenix Principal Investigator Peter Smith of ... more iRobot To Create Revolutionary New Robot For DARPA 
by Staff WritersBedford, MA (SPX) Jun 23, 2008 iRobot has announced the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Army Research Office have awarded the company a new multi-year, multi-million dollar R and D project to develop Chemical Robots (ChemBots). The goal of this program is to develop a soft, flexible, mobile robot that can identify and maneuver through openings smaller than i ... more Sega, Hasbro unveil new dancing robot 
Tokyo (AFP) June 19, 2008For people looking for a dance partner that doesn't step on toes, toymakers Sega and Hasbro on Thursday unveiled a new two-wheeled dancing robot with stereo sound. The remote control A.M.P Automated Music Personality, or Ampbot, can be hooked up to an MP3 player or iPod on its back. The 73-centimetre (2.4 feet) tall black robot can bob its head and dance while LED lights on its head ... more |
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Tucson, AZ (SPX) Jun 17, 2008Raytheon, teaming with the U.S. Navy and Agilent Technologies Inc., has implemented the Presidio Automated Test Line, a breakthrough in testing automation for production of Raytheon's Standard Missile 2. The SM-2 Presidio represents an innovative change to the testing process, not only for Standard Missile, but, ultimately, for Raytheon's entire Missile Systems business. It replaces ... more 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
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