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Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 15, 2009Science fiction writers have long imagined a future for humans on Mars, and Hollywood has created several movie fantasies about what the experience could be like (with a few improbable aliens added for extra drama). NASA has addressed the possibility of creating human colonies on Mars someday, but so far, only robots have stepped foot on the red soil. How long will we have to wait for scie ... more Atlantis astronauts capture Hubble on fix-it mission 
Houston, Texas (AFP) May 13, 2009Astronauts plucked the high-flying Hubble Space Telescope from orbit Wednesday, maneuvering it into the bay of the shuttle Atlantis for an ambitious spacewalking overhaul. Astronaut Megan McArthur grappled the 13.2-meter long telescope with the shuttle's robot arm at 1714 GMT, after Atlantis commander Scott Altman maneuvered his spacecraft within 10 meters (35 feet) of the scientific icon. ... more Hubble Grapple Sets Stage For Spacewalks 
Houston TX (SPX) May 14, 2009Using the shuttle's robotic arm STS-125 Mission Specialist Megan McArthur grappled the Hubble Space Telescope at 12:14 p.m. CDT Wednesday. McArthur then maneuvered the telescope onto a Flight Support System maintenance platform in Atlantis' payload bay. The stage is set for five spacewalks in as many days to repair and update instruments, extending Hubble's lifespan through 2014. Ast ... more Research Gives Clues For Self-Cleaning Materials, Water-Striding Robots 
Lincoln NB (SPX) May 08, 2009Self-cleaning walls, counter tops, fabrics, even micro-robots that can walk on water - all those things and more could be closer to reality because of research recently completed by scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and at Japan's RIKEN institute. Humans have marveled for millennia at how water beads up and rolls off flowers, caterpillars and some insects, and how insects li ... more Robot Scientist Becomes First Machine To Discover New Scientific Knowledge 
London UK (SPX) May 07, 2009Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have created a Robot Scientist which the researchers believe is the first machine to have independently discovered new scientific knowledge. The robot, called Adam, is a computer system that fully automates the scientific process. The work was published in the journal Science. Prof Ross King, who ... more |
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Conyers GA (SPX) Apr 07, 2009GeckoSystems has announced that their multi-tasking personal robot product, the CareBot MSR, satisfies the requirements indicated by ABI Research to penetrate this growing marketplace. The report from ABI Research is predicting that by the year 2015, people will probably be willing to spend as much for a multi-tasking humanoid robot as they would for a new car. "Within six years, the ... more Altair Software Helps Students Reshape Their Robots And Their Lives 
Troy MI (SPX) Apr 07, 2009Fifteen students at a Seattle-area high school are using Altair Engineering's OptiStruct software to help build robots for the national FIRST Robotics competition; but, to their amazement, the real prizes they have won have been improved social skills, a passion for teamwork and a newfound love of engineering. The team from Jackson High School in Mill Creek, Wash., worked with their career ... more First-Time Entrant Captures Rube Goldberg National Title 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Apr 04, 2009A team from St. Olaf College, a private liberal arts school in Northfield, Minn., won the 22nd annual national Rube Goldberg Machine Contest at Purdue University on Saturday (March 28). St. Olaf, with an enrollment of 3,000 students and no engineering program, was competing for the first time in the national contest. The team of science-minded students designed a machine around a "Mad Scie ... more 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 |
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Tsukuba, Japan (AFP) March 16, 2009Japanese researchers on Monday showed off a robot that will soon strut her stuff down a Tokyo catwalk. The girlie-faced humanoid with slightly oversized eyes, a tiny nose and shoulder-length hair boasts 42 motion motors programmed to mimic the movements of flesh-and-blood fashion models. "Hello everybody, I am cybernetic human HRP-4C," said the futuristic fashionista, opening her media p ... more Alien Safari Part 5: Alien Vs Predator 
Moffet Field CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2009Q: There's controversy about the manned exploration of space versus sending robots. What are your feelings about that as we plan exploration over the next several decades? Tori Hoehler: I think the question of manned exploration crystallizes around Mars. That's the one that lies within the realm of feasibility. If you look at what we understand about the potential for life on Mars, NASA ha ... more Third Meeting Of ISECG 
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 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
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