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NASA Seeks Data From Innovative Lunar DemonstrationsWashington DC (SPX) Aug 09, 2010 NASA has issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) to purchase specific data resulting from industry efforts to test and verify vehicle capabilities through demonstrations of small robotic landers. The purpose is to inform the development of future human and robotic lander vehicles. The Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) BAA will result in multiple small firm-fixed price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts with a total value up to $30.1 million through 2012. Multiple aw ... read more |
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Houston TX (SPX) Aug 03, 2010Teams of flight controllers are continuing engineering analysis and refining spacewalk procedures to replace a failed International Space Station ammonia pump module later this week. Expedition 24 astronauts Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson currently are scheduled to start the repairs on the station's starboard truss Thursday. The pump failed Saturday night after a spike in electrica ... more  
Washington (UPI) Jul 29, 2010 The U.S. Army has placed orders with iRobot and Boeing for 94 small unmanned ground vehicles under a $14.6 million contract announced this week. Under the deal the companies will provide the Army with new 310 models, plus spare parts. The 35-pound unmanned robots, said Bob Dalee, robotics program manager for Boeing Network and Tectical Systems, are capable of providing the "dismo ... more  
Tokyo (AFP) July 30, 2010Japanese emergency services are to trial a small tank-like rescue robot that can search rubble for survivors and deliver water, food or cellphones in disaster zones. The fire department of Chiba City, east of Tokyo, will test the QUINCE prototype from next month, said Eiji Koyanagi, robotic engineering expert at Chiba Institute of Technology. "People die because they despair. If the robo ... more |
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Japan's new robot brings visitors home by video-phoneOsaka, Japan (AFP) Aug 1, 2010 Japanese researchers Sunday unveiled a robot that can mimic speech and gestures sent to it by video-phone, replicating a distant caller's presence. Dubbed the Telenoid R1, the robot will allow "people to feel as if an acquaintance in the distance is next to you," according to its developers, Osaka University and the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute. A sensor will transmit the caller's sounds and movements of the head, face and arms to a robot near the recipient, the developers said ... read more |
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