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Self-Cleaning Technology From Mars Can Keep Terrestrial Solar Panels Dust FreeBoston MA (SPX) Aug 24, 2010 Find dusting those tables and dressers a chore or a bore? Dread washing the windows? Imagine keeping dust and grime off objects spread out over an area of 25 to 50 football fields. That's the problem facing companies that deploy large-scale solar power installations, and scientists presented the development of one solution - self-dusting solar panels ? based on technology developed for space missions to Mars. In a report at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), they de ... read more |
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London, UK (SPX) Aug 13, 2010Despite their tiny brains, bees have remarkable navigation capabilities based on their vision. Now scientists have recreated a light-weight imaging system mimicking a honeybee's field of view, which could change the way we build mobile robots and small flying vehicles. New research published in IOP Publishing's Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, describes how the researchers from the Center o ... more  
Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Aug 9, 2010 A six-legged robot that may one day walk on the surface of the moon or Mars stretched it legs during a test stroll in a Southern California park, officials say. The All-Terrain, Hex-Limbed, Extra-Terrestrial Explorer (ATHLETE) is being developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., as a half-size prototype of a robot vehicle that could transport supplies, fix equipment ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 09, 2010NASA 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 ... more |
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U.S. robot teams set for Aussie face-offCanberra, 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-generation unmanned ground vehicle systems for deployment in extreme military operations where there is a high threat t ... read more |
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