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 Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Oct 6, 2009 
The Israeli navy will shortly begin deploying unmanned craft along the Mediterranean coast, particularly off the Hamas-held Gaza Strip in the south and Lebanon in the north where Hezbollah guerrillas operate.
These highly maneuverable unmanned surface vehicles, operated by remote control from land stations, can carry out a wide range of missions, such as patrolling coastal waters to ... read more 
Fort Irwin CA (AFNS) Oct 06, 2009More than 3,000 Soldiers from 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, just ended two weeks in the box at the National Training Center preparing for an upcoming deployment to Iraq, and a number of them conducted unique route-clearance training there with a robot. Members of C Company, an engineer unit under the brigade's Special Troops Battalion, trained with a Talon robot to ... more
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Apple blocking Dalai Lama, Kadeer, iPhone apps: report
US telecom company fined for bribing Chinese officials Apple blocking Dalai Lama iPhone applications: report Detroit flight plot may prove boon for security firms AT&T wants out of landline business Apple wins iPod hearing loss lawsuit Nuance buys British voice-to-text company SpinVox Facebook, Twitter to face more sophisticated attacks: McAfee Google plans Android event in January Hacker pleads guilty in huge credit card theft case 
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Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Oct 02, 2009NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission (LCROSS) based on new analysis of available lunar data, has shifted the target crater from Cabeus A to Cabeus (proper). The decision was based on continued evaluation of all available data and consultation/input from members of the LCROSS Science Team and the scientific community, including impact experts, ground and space based ... more  
Tokyo (AFP) Oct 1, 2009Engineers in Japan say they are a step closer to developing technology they hope will cut the risk of car crashes -- by mimicking the behaviour of fish. The experts at Nissan Motor have been studying fish and the way they are able to swim in schools and avoid colliding with each other. The result is a robot that can travel in a group of up to seven, avoiding bumps by sharing information ... more 
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 29, 2009The European Space Agency's SMART-1 team has released an image of the future impact site of NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS). LCROSS will search for water ice on the Moon by making two impacts into a crater named Cabeus A at the lunar South Pole. The impacts are scheduled for 11:30 am UT on 9 October 2009. Bjoern Grieger, the liaison scientist for SMART-1's ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Sep 21, 2009The Commercial Spaceflight Federation is pleased to announce its co-sponsorship of the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference (NSRC), which is being organized in conjunction with the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). This conference, to be held in Boulder, Colorado during February 18-20, 2010, will allow scientists ... more  
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 21, 2009The Hollywood Valley Girl comedy "Clueless" contains a classic lesson in parking a car. The lead character, Cher, played by Alicia Silverstone, is a vacuous bimbo teenager taking her first driving lessons. Upon being questioned by her instructor about parking, Cher merely states that there's no need for her to learn, because everywhere she goes has valet parking! A similar trick is now ... more 
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 18, 2009Japan's Panasonic Corp. has developed a "Robotic Bed" that can transform into a wheelchair to make life easier for elderly and disabled people, it announced Friday. The invention is designed to help people with limited mobility maintain an independent lifestyle, the firm said in a statement. "Now, the user can join the family meal by converting the bed into a wheelchair and moving to the ... more |
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