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Opportunity Brushing and Examining an Outcrop
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 04, 2009Opportunity remains positioned on an exposed rock outcrop, continuing an "in situ" (contact) science campaign with the robotic arm (IDD). On Sol 1832 (March 20, 2009), the first part of a rock abrasion tool (RAT) brushing activity was performed. Using a new work-around for the failed RAT Z-encoder, the RAT successfully performed a seek-scan to locate the rock surface. On the next sol ... more Study: Technology cannot replace nature 
Seattle, April 2, 2009 U.S. psychologists say humans might be losers if technological nature - such as robotic dogs or Web cams viewing nature scenes- replaces the real thing. University of Washington psychologist Peter Kahn said technology increasingly is encroaching upon human connections with the natural world and that intrusion might produce one of the central psychological problems of our times. ... more New robot 'steered by human thought': Honda 
Tokyo (AFP) March 31, 2009Japan's Honda said Tuesday it had developed a robot steered by human thought, thanks to a helmet-like device that measures a person's brain activity and sends signals to the machine. The latest version of ASIMO - the celebrity robot of Honda Motor Co. that can already dance, run and guide guests through an office floor - has now been fitted with a so-called "brain machine interface" (BMI), ... more Mars Rovers Powering On After 5 years 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 27, 2009In January 2004, NASA landed two identical robotic rovers named Spirit and Opportunity on the surface of Mars. The twins were primed for a brief 3-month mission to tell us a story of water and possibly life itself in the planet's past. More than five years later, the dynamic duo are still roving the Red Planet, engaged in a saga of overachievement that has transformed Mars exploration. ... more Opportunity At Outcrop - Endeavour In Sight - Sol 1824-1831 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 26, 2009Opportunity has positioned itself at an exposed rock outcrop and is in the middle of an "in situ" (contact) science campaign with the robotic arm (IDD). Because of the project team's desire to rest the right-front wheel actuator and to limit driving while an earlier drive sequence error is remedied, Opportunity took advantage of the nearby rock outcrop. This fits with the strategic science ... more |
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Yokohama, Japan (SPX) Mar 17, 2009Representatives of ten space agencies from around the world met under the banner of the International Space Exploration Coordination Group (ISECG)1. They adopted for further study three scenarios for conducting internationally coordinated robotic and human exploration activities on the Moon. This was one of several results arising from a meeting held on March 10-12, 2009, in Yokohama Japan. ... more Turning The Tide To Energy 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 13, 2009NASA researchers who developed a new way to power robotic underwater vehicles believe a spin-off technology could help convert ocean energy into electrical energy on a much larger scale. The researchers hope that clean, renewable energy produced from the motion of the ocean and rivers could potentially meet an important part of the world's demand for electricity. Many different methods alr ... more LM Unveils Exoskeleton Technology 
Orlando FL (SPX) Mar 09, 2009Lockheed Martin debuted an advanced robotic exoskeleton designed to augment Soldiers' strength and endurance and prevent their premature fatigue. The Human Universal Load Carrier (HULC) exoskeleton, introduced at the Association of the United States' Army Winter Symposium in Fort Lauderdale, FL, will meet future mobility and sustainment needs of Warfighters by providing strength and surviv ... more Tokyo school to host first robot teacher 
Tokyo (UPI) Mar 5, 2009 Students at a Tokyo primary school will soon be learning from the first robot teacher, a Japanese science professor says. University of Tokyo Professor Hiroshi Kobayashi has created a robot capable of teaching human students while also expressing a limited range of emotions, including anger in case of unruly children, The Daily Telegraph said Thursday. The robot is named Saya and ... more Aurora Wins Contract For Multi-Robot Planetary Exploration 
Cambridge MA (SPX) Mar 06, 2009Aurora Flight Sciences has announced that the company, MIT's Manned Vehicle Laboratory (MVL), and the MIT Humans and Automation Laboratory (HAL) recently won a NASA Small-Business Technology Transfer Research proposal to develop a software system that performs command and control of a diverse team of mobile robots, operating in a variety of control modes, to perform multi-agent planetary explora ... more |
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New York NY (SPX) Feb 19, 2009Chemists at New York University and China's Nanjing University have developed a two-armed nanorobotic device that can manipulate molecules within a device built from DNA. The device is described in the latest issue of the journal Nature Nanotechnology. "The aim of nanotechnology is to put specific atomic and molecular species where we want them and when we want them there," said NYU ... more U.S., Chinese scientists build nanorobot 
New York (UPI) Feb 16, 2009 U.S. and Chinese scientists say they've created a two-armed nanorobot that can manipulate molecules within a device built from DNA. Researchers at New York University and China's Nanjing University said the programmable unit allows researchers to capture and maneuver patterns on a scale that is unprecedented. New York University Professor Nadrian Seeman, one of the study's ... more First Robotic Greens Mower For The Golf Industry 
New Orleans LO (SPX) Feb 16, 2009Precise Path Robotics announces the creation of the RG3 robotic greens mower, the very first fully automated robotic golf course conditioning and maintenance mower, at the 2009 Golf Industry Show in New Orleans. The Precise Path RG3 combines robotic technology with an industry proven cutting unit to produce a consistent and accurate cut every time while enabling superintendents to realize ... more 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
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