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QinetiQ's New Talon Meets Bomb Detection Challenges
London, UK (SPX) Feb 13, 2009QinetiQ has extended its TALON family of robots, 2,500 of which have already been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, to ensure it continues to meet the ever-changing demands of detecting and clearing mines, unexploded ordnance and dangerous improvised explosive devices (IEDs) from a safe distance. Detection and clearance of mines is of particular importance in Afghanistan, where large ... more NGC's Land Navigation System Selected For FCS Development Contract 
Woodland Hills CA (SPX) Feb 13, 2009Northrop Grumman has been competitively selected by General Dynamics Robotic Systems to supply the navigation system solution for the Phase II Global Positioning System (GPS) / Inertial Navigation System (INS), a major component of the Autonomous Navigation System (ANS) for the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program. Under this $10.7 million contract, Northrop Grumman's navigation ... more Eickhoff Mining Machinery Gains CSIRO Automation 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Feb 11, 2009CSIRO has signed a licensing agreement with Eickhoff Australia Pty Ltd under which the company has access to the world's leading longwall mining automation technology. Eickhoff Australia is a key supplier of longwall shearers to the Australian mining industry. Underground longwall mining involves large machines that move from side to side as they cut into a coal face. Automation of some of ... more NASA And Caltech Test Steep-Terrain Rover 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2009Engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and students at the California Institute of Technology have designed and tested a versatile, low-mass robot that can rappel off cliffs, travel nimbly over steep and rocky terrain, and explore deep craters. This prototype rover, called Axel, might help future robotic spacecraft better explore and investigate foreign worlds such as Mars. On Ear ... more Antarctic Expedition Prepared Researchers For Mars Project 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2009About half a year before the robotic arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander began digging into soil and subsurface ice of an arctic plain of Mars, six scientists traveled to one of the coldest, driest places on Earth for soil-and-ice studies that would end up aiding analysis of the Mars data. They used duplicates of some of the Phoenix spacecraft's instruments, plus other methods, in the Antarc ... more |
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Ames IA (SPX) Feb 02, 2009Alexander Stoytchev and his three graduate students recently presented one of their robot's long and shiny arms to a visitor. Here, they said, swing it around. And so the visitor tentatively gave the robot's left arm a few twists and twirls. The metal arm was heavy, but still moved easily at its shoulder, elbow and wrist joints. Then the graduate students hit some keyboard commands and the ... more Game Provides Clue To Improving Remote Sensing 
Durham NC (SPX) Jan 29, 2009A newly developed mathematical model that figures out the best strategy to win the popular board game CLUE could some day help robot mine sweepers navigate strange surroundings to find hidden explosives. At the simplest level, both activities are governed by the same principles, according to the Duke University scientists who developed the new algorithm. A player, or robot, must move through ... more Japanese security robot nets intruders 
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 22, 2009Japanese companies on Thursday unveiled a security robot that can be operated remotely by cellphone and launch a net to capture an intruder. The prototype T-34, jointly developed by robot developer tmsuk Co. Ltd. and security company Alacom Co. Ltd., looks like a small wheeled vehicle and is loaded with sensors that detect anything untoward in an office building. It can move at a maximum ... more VRSI Receives Third Contract For F-35 JSF Manufacturing Research 
Plymouth MI (SPX) Jan 23, 2009Variation Reduction Solutions has received a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract for robotic aerospace drilling development, bringing total SBIR grant monies received by VRSI to $10,000,000. The purpose of the project is to develop a vision-guided robotic drilling system that will automatically drill several thousand precision holes in the center fuselage of the F- ... more Robo-Surgery: Safe And Capable In Key-Hole Gallbladder Removal 
London, UK (SPX) Jan 26, 2009Using a robotic assistant to remove a patient's gallbladder by key-hole surgery (laparoscopic cholecystectomy) is as safe as working with a human assistant, a Cochrane Review has concluded. Comparisons between robot- and human-assisted surgery showed that there were no differences in terms of morbidity, the need to switch to open surgery, total operating time, or length of stay in hospital. ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Jan 4, 2009The US space agency's Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity this month mark their fifth anniversary on the Red Planet, where they have endured harsh conditions and revealed a deluge of information. The twin robots, which landed on Mars three weeks apart in January 2004, were initially expected to have just 90-day missions, but have since sent back to Earth a quarter-million images, toured mount ... more NASA develops new type of explorer rover
Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Feb 5, 2009 The U.S. space agency says it and the California Institute of Technology have designed and tested a versatile, low-mass robot that can rappel off cliffs. The prototype rover, called Axel, can also travel efficiently over steep and rocky terrain, as well as explore deep craters. Officials at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. ... more Developing A Better Flight Plan For Weather Forecasting 
Boston MA (SPX) Jan 02, 2009At MIT, planning for bad weather involves far more than remembering an umbrella. Researchers in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics are trying to improve weather forecasting using robotic aircraft and advanced flight plans that consider millions of variables. "Weather affects huge sectors of our economy, such as agriculture and transportation," said Nicholas Roy, an assistant pr ... more ISRO Eyes Lunar Landing In 2012 And Mars Mission In 2013 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Dec 29, 2008Buoyed by the success of Chandrayaan-I, Indian space scientists now plan to conquer new frontiers by sending a robot on moon in 2012 and a spacecraft to Mars the following year which will also see an Indian astronaut in space. Indian Space Research Organisation has lined up a slew of missions which also include landing a spacecraft on an asteroid and sending a probe to fly past a co ... more OriginOil Announces Automation Of The Helix BioReactor System 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2008OriginOil has announced the successful automation of its Helix BioReactor system. This breakthrough technology optimizes algae growth, making large-scale commercial algae production scalable. The design of the Helix BioReactor utilizes low-energy lights arranged in a helix pattern and a rotating vertical shaft design, which allows algae culture to replicate exponentially within a smaller i ... more
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