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NASA Returns To The Moon With Instruments On Indian Spacecraft
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 22, 2008Two NASA instruments to map the lunar surface will launch on India's maiden moon voyage. The Moon Mineralogy Mapper will assess mineral resources, and the Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar, or Mini-SAR, will map the polar regions and look for ice deposits. The Indian Space Research Organization, or ISRO, is scheduled to launch its robotic Chandrayaan-1 on Oct. 22 from Sriharikota, India. ... more CSIRO Innovative Mining Technology Goes Global 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Oct 22, 2008Dr Mike McWilliams, Chief of CSIRO Exploration and Mining, has signed an agreement to commercialise revolutionary new mining automation technology with Mark Finlay, the Managing Director of Joy Australasia, one of the world's largest longwall mining original equipment manufacturers. The agreement, signed at the Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies, provides Joy Australasia with a ... more Phoenix Still Probing Mars For Secrets 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 20, 2008The Phoenix Mars Lander's robotic arm successfully delivered soil into oven six of the lander's thermal and evolved-gas analyzer, or TEGA, on Monday, Oct. 13, or the 137th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The delivery to oven six is a "bonus round" for Phoenix, as the mission goal requirement of filling and analyzing soil in at least three of the ovens has already been satisfied. Six ... more Lunar Prospecting Robot To Be Field Tested On Hawaii's Mauna Kea 
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Oct 16, 2008The cool, rocky slopes of Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano that is Hawaii's highest mountain, will serve as a stand-in for the moon as researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, NASA and other organizations test a robot designed for lunar prospecting. During the field experiment, Nov. 1-13, the robot called Scarab will simulate a lunar mission to extract water, hydrogen ... more The Sun Is Setting On Phoenix 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 14, 2008As fall approaches Mars' northern plains, NASA's Phoenix Lander continues to dig into the red planet's soil and deliver samples to its onboard science instruments for analysis. Over the past two weeks, Phoenix's nearly 2.4-meter-long (8 foot) arm moved a rock named "Headless" about 0.4 meters (16 inches) and snapped an image of the rock with its camera. Then the robotic arm scraped the ... more |
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Bedford MA (SPX) Oct 08, 2008iRobot has announced that the company has received a $3.75 million research and development contract from the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC), the nation's laboratory for advanced military automotive technology. Work under this contract will result in the delivery of two iRobot Warrior 700 platforms. A powerful and rugged robot, the ... more Pterodactyl-Inspired Robot To Master Air, Ground, And Sea 
Lubbock TX (SPX) Oct 08, 2008Paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University, aeronautical engineer Rick Lind of the University of Florida, and their students Andy Gedeon and Brian Roberts have reached back in time 115 million years to one of the most successful flying creatures in Earth's history, the pterodactyl, to conjure a robotic spy plane with next-generation capabilities. Mimicking the physical and ... more Japan's 'Cyberdyne' robot suit ready for hospital 
Tsukuba, Japan (AFP) Oct 7, 2008A Japanese professor announced Tuesday he was introducing robot suits for paralysed people, helping them to walk again by detecting their next move and lifting their muscles. "The time has come to introduce this technology to the world," Yoshiyuki Sankai, a professor at Tsukuba University near Tokyo, announced at a news conference. Sankai's company producing the robot suits is named ... more Trac-ID Systems And C2SAT Present The C2SAT 1.2m KU-4M 
Stavanger, Norway (SPX) Oct 07, 2008C2SAT introduces a mini VSAT named C2SAT 1.2m Ku-4M, a newweight 4-axes military and commercial high performanceStabilised Antenna Systems for Always On - Not AlmostAlways On mobile broadband communication.Smaller meter and sub meter reflectors in all frequency bandscan be mounted into the same stabilised robot. Get the bandwidth you pay forC2SAT's system makes it possible to increase the ... more New Robotic Repair System Will Fix Ailing Satellites 
Kingston, Canada (SPX) Oct 06, 2008Researchers at Queen's University are developing a new robotic system to service more than 8,000 satellites now orbiting the Earth, beyond the flight range of ground-based repair operations. Currently, when the high-flying celestial objects malfunction - or simply run out of fuel - they become "space junk" cluttering the cosmos. "These are mechanical systems, which means that eventually ... more |
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Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 23, 2008If the robotic arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander can nudge a rock aside, scientists on the Phoenix team would like to see what's underneath. Engineers who develop commands for the robotic arm have prepared a plan to try displacing a rock on the north side of the lander. This rock, roughly the size and shape of a VHS videotape, is informally named "Headless." "We don't know whether we ... more Opportunity Playing In The Sand 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2008During the past week, Opportunity performed several tests of the robotic arm to learn how to use it with a disabled shoulder joint. Having successfully completed those tests, Opportunity is moving on to investigate some bright patches of dust. Scientists hope to ascertain if the patches contain material not thoroughly analyzed in the past. On sol (Martian day) 1641 (Sept. 4, 2008) ... more 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
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