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NASA Outlines Big Plans For Humanoid RobotHuntsville AL (SPX) May 03, 2010 Astronauts on board the International Space Station will soon have a new roommate--and it's not human. It's a humanoid. In Sept. 2010, space shuttle Discovery will deliver Robonaut 2--"R2" for short--to the ISS, where it will become the first humanoid robot to travel and work in space. Developed jointly by NASA and General Motors, R2 looks a bit like C-3PO of Star Wars fame but lacks the chatty robot's gift of gab. That's okay, because the humans on board need a worker that can wield more useful t ... read more |
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New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) April 27, 2010The Gulf of Mexico oil rig disaster will develop into one of the worst spills in US history if the well is not sealed, the coast guard officer leading the response warned Tuesday. BP, which leases the Deepwater Horizon platform, has been operating four robotic submarines some 1,500 meters (5,000 feet) down on the seabed to try to cap two leaks in the riser pipe that connected the rig to the ... more  
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 27, 2010Using information provided by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) instrument teams, researchers at the University of California San Diego have successfully pinpointed the location of a long lost light reflector left on the lunar surface by bouncing laser signals from Earth to the Russian Lunokhod 1 retroreflector. The initial imaging of the two Russian rovers, Lunokhod 1 and 2 were m ... more  
Hong Kong (AFP) April 27, 2010Imagine something between a computer game and a pet that helps makes you slim. One inventor did just that and came up with Autom - a robot that will look dieters in the eye and tell them what they need to hear. Users can have daily conversations with the 38-centimetre-tall (15-inch) robot, which will crunch calories and provide feedback and encouragement on their weight-loss progress. F ... more |
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Engineers build giant dome to contain US oil spillNew Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) April 27, 2010 Engineers raced Tuesday to build a giant containment dome in case robotic submarines fail to stop oil gushing into the sea from a sunken rig in the Gulf of Mexico. British energy giant BP is operating four robotic submarines some 1,500 meters (5,000 feet) down on the seabed to try to activate a blowout preventer that can cap the oil well. But two days of efforts have yielded no progress and placing a giant dome over the leak is now considered the best solution to ward off the threat of an enviro ... read more |
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