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Aspiring lunar entrepreneurs contract for help from NASA
San Francisco (AFP) Oct 30, 2008In a cosmic case of role reversal, aspiring lunar entrepreneurs based on the Isle of Man have hired NASA to build them a robotic rover to send to the moon. While it has historically been the US space exploration agency dishing out work to private contractors, Odyssey Moon said Thursday that it has contracted NASA as part of its mission to turn lunar travel into a money-making business. ... more New Technology To Neutralise IEDs 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Oct 31, 2008The Minister for Defence Science and Personnel the Hon. Warren Snowdon MP has unveiled a new robot called SPIKER designed to counter improvised explosive devices (IED). The robot has been developed by the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) and was demonstrated at the Land Warfare Conference in Brisbane. "Innovations like this robot are part of DSTO's program to support our ... more iRobot Receives Order From NAVSEA 
Bedford MA (SPX) Oct 30, 2008iRobot has announced it has received a $3.7 million order from the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) under an existing Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract. The order is for delivery of 17 PackBot Man Transportable Robotic System (MTRS) robots and repair parts to NAVSEA by January 31, 2009. The PackBot MTRS robots are customized for NAVSEA and are modeled after ... more ESA's Lunar Robotics Challenge 
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 28, 2008The Teide volcanic peak on the island of Tenerife acted as a mock-up of the Moon landscape last week, with eight European student teams tuning, testing and driving their lunar rovers in preparation for a robotics competition that took place during the dark nights of last weekend. Roving on the Moon is not easy. Lunar robotic explorers have to travel in a vacuum, over rough and steep terrai ... more Husqvarna Launches Solar Powered Lawnmower 
Louisville KY (SPX) Oct 24, 2008Husqvarna's Automower Solar Hybrid is a fully robotic lawn mower partly powered by the sun and uses no fuel or oil. Expanding its current fully-robotic lawn mower line, Husqvarna will launch the new mower in the U.S. at Green Industry and Equipment Expo (GIE + EXPO) 2008. Powered by innovative and groundbreaking technology that combines solar power with electricity, the new Automower Solar ... more |
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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 Phoenix Lander Digs And Analyzes Soil As Darkness Gathers 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 10, 2008As fall approaches Mars' northern plains, NASA's Phoenix Lander is busy digging into the Red Planet's soil and scooping it into its onboard science laboratories for analysis. Over the past two weeks, Phoenix's nearly 2.4-meter-long (8 feet) arm moved a rock, nicknamed "Headless," about 0.4 meters (16 inches), and snapped an image of the rock with its camera. Then, the robotic arm ... more AGI And X PRIZE Foundation Partner For Moon Prize 
Santa Monica CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2008The X PRIZE Foundation has announced that it has selected AGI, producer of analysis software for land, sea, air, and space, as an official "preferred partner" for the Google Lunar X PRIZE. Preferred partners offer discounted services to the teams competing in the $30 million international competition. The Google Lunar X PRIZE challenges privately-funded teams to safely land a robot on the ... more |
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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 Nissan uses bumblebee power in new car technology 
Makuhari, Japan (AFP) Sept 30, 2008Japan's Nissan Motor Co. has tapped into an unlikely source of inspiration for technology to prevent car crashes -- bumblebees. The Biomimetic Car Robot Drive, or BR23C, is a metre-high duckling-shaped robot with a sensor that recreates the highly complex eyes of a bumblebee. The robot can detect an object up to two metres (2.2 yards) away in a 180-degree radius. It swerves away on wheel ... more Europe space chiefs elated after freighter completes mission 
Toulouse, France (AFP) Sept 29, 2008Europe's space freighter was destroyed over the South Pacific on Monday, ending a glitteringly successful maiden mission to the International Space Station, officials said. The European Space Agency said the robot truck had outperformed every expectation, while the aerospace firm which built it urged Europe to back a blueprint for transforming the ship into a manned spacecraft. ... more Facts about NASA, the world's biggest space agency 
Washington (AFP) Sept 25, 2008The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has the world's largest budget for space exploration with some 17 billion dollars on hand each year for space missions and robotic research. It was created by the US Congress in July 1958 to challenge the former Soviet Union's rise in the space race, a year after the Soviets launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, into space. ... more
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