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NASA Selects MAVEN Mission To Study Mars Atmosphere
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 16, 2008NASA has selected a Mars robotic mission that will provide information about the Red Planet's atmosphere, climate history and potential habitability in greater detail than ever before. Called the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft, the $485 million mission is scheduled for launch in late 2013. The selection was evaluated to have the best science value and lowest ... more Opportunity Bids Farewell To Victoria 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 16, 2008Opportunity has completed one of the most fantastic scientific campaigns of the Mars Exploration Rover mission -- the interior investigation of "Victoria Crater." After spending more than 340 Martian days, known as sols -- almost one Earth year -- inside the crater, Opportunity climbed back out on sol 1634 (Aug. 28, 2008). To do so, Opportunity retraced the wheel tracks the robotic ... more QinetiQ Rolls Out Field-Transformable Dragon Runner SUGV 
McLean VA (SPX) Sep 16, 2008QinetiQ North America's Technology Solutions Group has launched its new Dragon Runner Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle (Dragon Runner SUGV). Dragon Runner SUGV is the first fully modular ground robot system capable of both quick reconnaissance and improvised explosive device (IED) disarmament in urban, mountainous or rural environments. Based on a robot originally designed for the U.S. Marine ... more Next Mars Soil Scoop Slated For Last Wet Lab Cell 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 11, 2008The next soil sample that NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will deliver to its deck instruments will go to the fourth of the four cells of Phoenix's wet chemistry laboratory, according to the Phoenix team's current plans. The chosen source for that sample is from the "Snow White" trench on the eastern end of the work area reachable with Phoenix's robotic arm. In July that trench yielded a ... more Underneath Phoenix Lander 97 Sols After Touchdown 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 10, 2008The Robotic Arm Camera on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander took this image on Sept. 1, 2008, at about 4 a.m. local solar time during the 97th Martian day, or sol, since landing. The view underneath the lander shows growth of the clumps adhering to leg strut (upper left) compared with what was present when a similar image was taken about three months earlier. The view in this Sol 97 image is south ... more |
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Stanford, Calif. (UPI) Sep 3, 2008 U.S. scientists say they have created robotic helicopters that can teach themselves to fly by "watching" other helicopters. Stanford University Professor Andrew Ng, who led the project, said the achievement is an important demonstration of "apprenticeship learning," in which robots use an artificial intelligence system to learn by observing an expert, rather than by having software ... more Phoenix Analyzing Deepest Soil Sample Yet 
Tucson, AZ (JPL) Sep 03, 2008Scientists have begun to analyze a sample of soil delivered to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's wet chemistry experiment from the deepest trench dug so far in the Martian arctic plains. Phoenix has also been observing movement of clouds overhead. The lander's robotic arm on Sunday sprinkled a small fraction of the estimated 50 cubic centimeters of soil that had been scooped up from the ... more Robots Learn To Follow 
Davis CA (SPX) Sep 01, 2008Whether driving on the highway or walking down the street, we pick up on both deliberate signals and unconscious cues to predict what other people are going to do and act accordingly. But robots have trouble following each other around, for example, when a leader turns a corner and disappears from sight. Researchers at UC Davis have come up with a control system that allows a robot to pick ... more 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 |
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Hangzhou, China (SPX) Aug 14, 2008HLS Systems International has announced that it is in late stage discussions with some of the largest wind turbine producers in China to provide their critical automation control systems. HLS expects to solidify a formal relationship with one or more of these companies in the next few months and expects to begin producing wind power control systems later this year. Dr. Wang Changli, HLS' C ... more Soil Studies Continue At Phoenix Mars Lander Site 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 13, 2008Vibration of the screen above a laboratory oven on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander on Saturday, Aug. 9, succeeded in getting enough soil into the oven to begin analysis. Commands were sent for the lander's Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer (TEGA) to begin analysis Sunday of the soil sample from a trench called "Rosy Red." Phoenix's robotic arm delivered soil Thursday from the Rosy Red trench ... more Robots may enhance disabled people's lives 
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
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