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Wyle Helps Prepare Robonaut 2 For Launch To ISSEl Segundo CA (SPX) Aug 06, 2010 While Wyle has assisted hundreds of astronauts, cosmonauts and civilians who have gone into space since the 1960s, the company has now completed its preparations for NASA's first "human-like" robot for launch aboard the next Shuttle mission and installation on the International Space Station. It may not be the last. NASA's Robonaut 2 (R2), planned to be launched to the International Space Station this November, surpasses previous dexterous humanoid robots in strength, yet is safe enough to work si ... read more |
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Army Technology Expands Snake-Robotics
Adelphi MD (SPX) Jul 30, 2010Development of snake-like technology underway at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory is moving the military toward sending more autonomous systems instead of Soldiers on search-and-rescue missions, a top priority in the most dangerous mission areas. Army researchers call it the Robotic Tentacle Manipulator, a developmental project that expands on snake robotics research introduced at Carnegi ... more 'Welfare robots' to ease burden in greying Japan
Tokyo (AFP) July 29, 2010Robotic wheelchairs, mechanical arms and humanoid waiters are among the cutting-edge inventions on show at a robotics fair in Japan, a country whose population is ageing rapidly. To ease the burden in a nation with one of the world's highest life expectancies, engineers have come up with technologies to make life easier for the elderly and disabled, and their caregivers. A new robot whee ... more Japan experts call for robot expedition to moon
Tokyo, Japan (AFP) July 29, 2010An expert panel advising the Japanese government called in a report approved on Thursday for the nation to send a wheeled robot to the moon in five years and to build the first lunar base by 2020. "It is extremely important to probe the moon... as we now see the dawn of the age of great exploration in the solar system," the report formally adopted by the panel on Thursday said. "China, I ... more |
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Astronomer: Manned missions less likelyLondon (UPI) Jul 27, 2010 Future manned space exploration will be the province of adventurers rather than state-backed missions, Britain's astronomer royal says. In an interview 40 years after the first manned moon landing, Cambridge University Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics Martin Rees said most future space mission would likely be robotic, BBC News reported Tuesday. Manned space exploration would become "a cut-price, high-risk program ... which would be an adventure more than anything practical," Rees ... read more |
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