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A Hop, Skip And A Jump On The Moon - And BeyondBoston MA (SPX) Aug 19, 2010 Although unmanned, wheeled rovers have explored the surfaces of the moon and Mars for decades, these vehicles have limits - they can't crawl inside craters, scale cliffs or travel long distances. For more than two years, a team of students led by Professor of the Practice of Astronautics and former NASA astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics has been collaborating with engineers from the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory to design and build a prototype for a ne ... read more |
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London (UPI) Aug 9, 2010 European researchers have developed a robot they say is the first able to display and detect emotions and react to being treated kindly. The humanoid robot, called Nao, can detect human emotions through non-verbal clues such as body-language and facial expressions and gets better at reading a person's mood through prolonged interaction, Britain's Daily Telegraph reported Monday. ... more  
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 09, 2010The next spacewalk to complete the removal of a failed ammonia pump module and installation and activation of a new pump module on the International Space Station's S1 Truss will take place no earlier than Wednesday. Expedition 24 Flight Engineers Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson completed the first spacewalk to remove and replace the pump module at 3:22 p.m. EDT Saturday. As the res ... more
Canberra, Australia (UPI) Aug 6, 2010 Three teams from the United States are among six finalists whose robots will go head-to-head in a joint U.S.-Australia multimillion-dollar design challenge. The six teams are competing in the Multi-autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge - MAGIC 2010 - set up last summer by the Australian and United States defense departments. MAGIC 2010 aims to develop next-generatio ... more |
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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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