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Britain launches first space agencyLondon (AFP) March 23, 2010 Britain launched its own space agency Tuesday with the help of home-grown astronaut Major Timothy Peake, aimed at boosting the country's multi-billion-pound space technology industry. While Peake may be its only astronaut, Britain is a world leader in areas such as robotics, satellites and telecommunications, which contribute about six billion pounds (nine billion dollars, 6.7 billion euros) a year to the economy. The new UK Space Agency, complete with a logo depicting the Union flag morphed int ... read more |
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Tsukuba, Japan (AFP) March 10, 2010It giggles and wiggles its feet when you shake its rattle, but will get cranky and cry from too much tickling: Meet Yotaro, a Japanese robot programmed to be as fickle as a real baby. The cuddly baby-bot looks unearthly with a pair of luminous blue eyes and oversized cheeks, but engineering students are hoping it will teach young people the pleasures of parenting as Japan faces a demographic ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 12, 2010Opportunity has finished its circumnavigation campaign around "Concepcion" crater. Numerous targeted images were taken of rocks around the crater but no new rock targets were chosen to be analyzed using the in-situ (contact) instruments of the rover's robotic arm (IDD). During the last leg around the crater on Sol 2172 (March 4, 2010), the third and final checkout for the AEGIS automated t ... more  
Woods Hole, Mass. (UPI) Mar 9, 2009 The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution says its pioneering deep-sea exploration robot the "Autonomous Benthic Explorer" has been lost at sea. The robot, nicknamed ABE, was one of the first successful submersible vehicles that could operate both unmanned and untethered to surface ships. Officials said it was lost Friday during a research expedition off the coast of Chile. Scient ... more |
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Small is beautiful: Japan's hand-made electric carsToyama, Japan (AFP) March 4, 2010 While auto manufacturing giants spend millions to develop environmentally-friendly electric cars, one Japanese company has taken a more low-key approach, crafting hand-made "green" cars. Takeoka Jidosha Kogei may be the antithesis of the world's Hondas and Nissans. The family-run business makes its cars from scratch in a garage workshop in the snowy foothills in the northwest of the country. There are no industrial robots or assembly lines in sight. Instead just a dozen mechanics crafting each m ... read more |
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