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Testing The Exomars Rover In Mars-Like ConditionsBonn, Germany (SPX) Oct 22, 2010 A couple of clicks of the mouse are enough to send the ExoMars rover with its six flexible metal wheels moving across the sand tank towards the first obstacle. Bernhard Rebele, Maximilian Apfelbeck and Sebastian Kuss from the German Aerospace Center Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics have built a challenging obstacle course, which really puts the rover to the test. Its middle wheels scrabble obstinately against the sharp edges of the limestone. The steady grinding sound as the rover passes ove ... read more |
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  Boeing And iRobot Team Receives SUGV Contract From USAF Boeing and partner iRobot have reported that they have received an initial contract with the U.S. Air Force to provide Small Unmanned Ground Vehicles (SUGV) to its Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) ... more | .. |
  UBC Underwater Robot To Explore Ice-Covered Ocean And Antarctic Ice Shelf Researchers at the University of British Columbia are deploying an underwater robot to survey ice-covered ocean in Antarctica from October 17 through November 12. Scientists predict that the s ... more | .. |
  NASA to buy private moon data NASA has signed contracts with U.S. six teams competing to design, build and launch private moon probes to purchase their lunar data, agency officials say. The six teams are competing in the Goog ... more | .. |
  A New System For Locating And Capturing Satellites In Space Scientists at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have developed a new system for docking and capturing space satellites based on robotics and computer vision technology to autonomously guid ... more | .. |
 NASA Awards Contracts For Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data NASA has awarded Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) contracts to six companies for the purchase of technical data resulting from industry efforts to develop vehicle capabilities and demonst ... more |
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Canberra, Australia (SPX) Oct 18, 2010The authors of a new book have called for the development of more robust international ocean and ice sheet monitoring and modelling programs designed to help community adaptation planning keep pace with the threat of rising sea levels. "The good news is that a recent concentration of science resources is improving our insight into ocean and ice dynamics, and scientific measurement of the r ... more  
Ljubljana, Slovenia (UPI) Oct 14, 2010 Volunteers in Slovenia are allowing themselves to be repeatedly punched - by a robot - in an effort to assess human-robot pain thresholds, a researcher says. The late science fiction author Isaac Asimov's famous First Law of Robotics - "A robot may not injure a human being" - appears to be taking a hammering, but the scientist behind it says it's all in a good cause, NewScientist.co ... more  
Baghdad (AFP) Oct 16, 2010Before the 2003 US-led invasion, Iraq's Al-Shaheed State Company used to make a blast, literally. Now it helps to produce music. "We used to make mortar shell casings, but our engineers changed the production line, so we now make brass for trumpets and vases, and copper cables," said Amine Hawas, a company technician. Al-Shaheed's fate has been mirrored by a string of other companies cre ... more |
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iRobot Announces Order From US ArmyBedford MA (SPX) Oct 11, 2010 iRobot has announced that it has received a $14 million order from the U.S. Army TACOM Contracting Center in Warren, Mich. The order calls for the delivery of iRobot Aware 2 robot intelligence software and spare parts for iRobot PackBot tactical mobile robots. This order will allow the Army to upgrade its existing iRobot 510 FasTac fleet to the iRobot 510 PackBot multi-mission robot. This is the 20th order under the $286 million Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) xBot contract. T ... read more |
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