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Phoenix Lander Pictures Show Robotic Arm's Workspace After 90 Sols
Tempe AZ (SPX) Aug 29, 2008New pictures from NASA's Phoenix Lander show just what a busy summer the spacecraft on Mars - and its science team at The University of Arizona in Tucson - has been having. During the first 90 Martian days, or sols, after its May 25, 2008, landing on an arctic plain of Mars, the lander dug several trenches in the workspace reachable for its robotic arm. The lander's Surface Stereo ... more Mid-Depth Soil Collected For Lab Test On NASA's Mars Lander 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 25, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has scooped up a soil sample from an intermediate depth between the ground surface and a subsurface icy layer. The sample was delivered to a laboratory oven on the spacecraft. The robotic arm on Phoenix collected the sample, dubbed "Burning Coals," from a trench named "Burn Alive 3." The sample consisted of about one-fourth to one-half teaspoon of loose soil ... more Robot-assisted surgery repairs fistulas 
Winston-Salem, N.C. (UPI) Aug 20, 2008 U.S. urologic surgeons say they have successfully used robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery to repair abnormal openings between the bladder and vagina. A team led by Dr. Ashok Hemal, a urologic surgeon from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, used the surgical procedure to repair the abnormal openings that are known as fistulas. Reporting on their experience with seven ... more Phoenix Mars Lander Explores Site By Trenching 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 22, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scientists and engineers are continuing to dig into the area around the lander with the spacecraft's robotic arm, looking for new materials to analyze and examining the soil and ice subsurface structure. New trenches opened recently include the "Burn Alive 3" trench in the "Wonderland" digging area in the eastern portion of the arm's reachable workspace. Research ... more Emerging PV Manufacturers Gain From New Global Partnership 
Dormagen, Germany (SPX) Aug 22, 2008A global strategic partnership to benefit the emerging photovoltaic (PV) industry for solar-cell energy applications has been signed by two leaders in advanced automation -- U.S.-based Northfield Automation Systems, Inc. and German-based Solarcoating Machinery. One point of contact is the benefit for new PV companies as they gear up manufacturing operations by tapping into the strengths of ... more |
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Rochester, N.Y. (UPI) Aug 11, 2008 A U.S. study foresees robots as improving both the quality and flexibility of the lives of people with disabilities that affect the use of their limbs. The robotics engineering research, sponsored by The National Science Foundation, utilized physiological information -- called bio-signals -- produced by the human body to improve external assistive devices called orthoses that help ... more Japanese Researchers Eye e-Skin For Robots 
Tokyo, Japan (AFP) Aug 12, 2008Japanese researchers say they have developed a rubber that is able to conduct electricity well, paving the way for robots with stretchable "e-skin" that can feel heat and pressure like humans. The material is the first in the world to solve the problems faced by metals -- which are conductive but do not stretch -- and rubber, which hardly transmits electricity, according to the team at the ... more Soil Studies Continue At Site Of Phoenix Mars Lander 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 11, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has continued studies of its landing site by widening a trench, making overnight measurements of conductivity in the Martian soil and depositing a sample of surface soil into a gap between partially opened doors to an analytical oven on the lander. Phoenix's robotic arm delivered soil Thursday from a trench informally named "Rosy Red" through a narrow opening to ... more U.S. military use of robots increases 
St. Louis (UPI) Aug 5, 2008 Military robots are no longer only science fiction, with the U.S. Army planning to have 30 percent of its forces composed of robots by 2020. Washington University Assistant Professor Bill Smart and doctoral student Doug Few said the Army's robots won't resemble robotic soldiers from movies such as "Star Wars" and "I, Robot." "When the military says 'robot' they mean everything ... more Japan's Toyota unveils next-generation scooter 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 1, 2008Japan's Toyota Motor on Friday unveiled the Winglet -- a new two-wheel electric scooter to rival the Segway. The Winglet, which the automaker describes as "a personal transport assistance robot", can be controlled by shifting body weight, allowing the rider to go forward, backward and turn while standing upright. It cruises at a speed of up to six kilometres (four miles) per hour and ... more |
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Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 29, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's robotic arm will use a revised collection-and-delivery sequence overnight Sunday with the goal of depositing an icy soil sample in the lander's oven. "We are going to modify the process we ran on Sol 60 to acquire another icy sample and attempt to deliver it to TEGA," the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer, said Barry Goldstein, Phoenix project manager from NASA ... more Lander Collects Icy Soil But Needs To Work On Delivery 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 28, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's robotic arm collected a more than adequate amount of icy soil for baking in one of the lander's ovens but will need to adjust how it delivers samples. Engineers determined the rasping and scraping activity collected a total of 3 cubic centimeters of icy soil, more than enough to fill the tiny oven cell of the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer, or TEGA. ... more Trench On Mars Ready For Next Sampling By NASA Lander 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 25, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has groomed the bottom of a shallow trench to prepare for collecting a sample to be analyzed from a hard subsurface layer where the soil may contain frozen water. Images received Thursday morning confirmed that the lander's robotic arm had scraped the top of the hard layer clean during activities of Phoenix's 58th Martian day, or sol, corresponding to overnight ... more NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Prepares For Next Sample Analysis 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 25, 2008The latest activities of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have moved the mission closer to analyzing a sample of material, possibly icy soil, from a hard layer at the bottom of a shallow trench beside the lander. Overnight Tuesday to Wednesday, during Phoenix's 57th Martian day, or sol, since landing, Phoenix used its robotic arm to scrape the top of the hard layer in the trench informally named ... more NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Prepares For Next Sample Analysis 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 24, 2008The latest activities of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have moved the mission closer to analyzing a sample of material, possibly icy soil, from a hard layer at the bottom of a shallow trench beside the lander. Overnight Tuesday to Wednesday, during Phoenix's 57th Martian day, or sol, since landing, Phoenix used its robotic arm to scrape the top of the hard layer in the trench informally named ... more
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