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Four Chinese Lunar Landers MootedSydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 06, 2010 For years, the official line on China's robot lunar program was a simple case of 1-2-3. There would be an orbiter (Chang'e 1) followed by a lander bearing a rover (Chang'e 2), and finally, a robot lander with a sample return rocket (Chang'e 3). Prior to late 2007, that was the plan regularly published in Chinese media sources. Shortly before the launch of Chang'e 1 in 2007, China's first lunar orbiter, the story began to change. China officially revealed that a back-up spacecraft had been assemble ... read more |
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Taipei, Taiwan (SPX) Sep 21, 2010Designers of robot pets are fighting a never-ending battle with consumers to provide entertaining and realistic gadgets that respond to human interaction in ever more nuanced ways, mimicking the behavior of real pet animals or even people. Researchers in Taiwan are now looking at a new design paradigm that could see the development of a robot vision module that might one-day recognize huma ... more  
New Haven, CT (SPX) Sep 21, 2010Navigating our way down the street is something most of us take for granted; we seem to recognize cars, other people, trees and lampposts instantaneously and without much thought. In fact, visually interpreting our environment as quickly as we do is an astonishing feat requiring an enormous number of computations-which is just one reason that coming up with a computer-driven system that ca ... more  
Flagstaff, Arizona (AFP) Sept 18, 2010It may not have all the creature comforts, but Aaron Hulse considers his space exploration rover a pleasant home away from home. That is crucial as he and other NATO experts spend days together in the Arizona desert, simulating the arid surface of some distant planet or asteroid - complete with a dormant volcano. "You just have to get comfortable with being close in here," Hulse said, s ... more |
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NASA's LRO Exposes Moon's Complex And Turbulent YouthGreenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 20, 2010 The moon was bombarded by two distinct populations of asteroids or comets in its youth, and its surface is more complex than previously thought, according to new results from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft featured in three papers appearing in Science. In the first paper, lead author James Head of Brown University in Providence, R.I., describes results obtained from a detailed global topographic map of the moon created using LRO's Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA). "Our ne ... read more |
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