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Robot footballers wow crowd in GermanyHanover, Germany (AFP) March 2, 2010 Forget Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney or Lionel Messi. With less than 100 days to the World Cup, it was four pint-sized robots that wowed crowds in Germany Tuesday with their footballing skills. The four robots, about 60 centimetres (23 inches) high, named Rajesh, Penny, Sheldon and Leonard, part of the team that won the Robot Football World Cup in Austria 2009, played out an exhibition match at the world's biggest high-tech fair being held in Hanover. The white robots use colour and line recog ... read more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Feb 22, 2010Dark energy, habitable planets around other stars, and the mysterious nature of our own Sun, have been chosen by ESA as candidates for two medium-class missions to be launched no earlier than 2017. On Thursday 18 February, ESA's Science Programme Committee (SPC) approved three missions to enter the so-called definition phase. This is the next step required before the final decision is take ... more  
Ann Arbor, MI (SPX) Feb 22, 2010An artificial foot that recycles energy otherwise wasted in between steps could make it easier for amputees to walk, its developers say. "For amputees, what they experience when they're trying to walk normally is what I would experience if I were carrying an extra 30 pounds," said Art Kuo, professor in the University of Michigan departments of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineer ... more  
Houston, Texas (AFP) Feb 21, 2010The Endeavour looked for a break in the clouds Sunday to return to Earth after a successful two-week mission to install a node with a seven-window observation deck on the International Space Station. Mission Control lined up a series of landing opportunities at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 10:20 pm (0320 GMT Monday) and 11:55 pm (0455 GMT Monday) and two more later at Edwards Ai ... more |
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New Views For Space TouristsSydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 18, 2010 NASA's recent installation of a cupola on the International Space Station has caught the eyes of the world. It's appropriate, considering that the cupola itself is an eye on the world. The cupola is a small blister on the side of the recently installed Tranquility module, which gives panoramic views of the space station, the Earth below, and space itself. This will allow astronauts to inspect the station and get a clear view of remote operations with the station's robotic arm. It will also give th ... read more |
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