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Chinese firm to send Spanish rover to moon in 2014Madrid, Spain (XNA) Aug 22, 2012 China Great Wall Industry Corporation will send a Spanish rover to the moon in June 2014, according to the Galactic Suite company which heads the "Barcelona Moon Team" that is competing in the Google Lunar X Prize contest to the moon. The rover will be launched by a Long March 2C/CTS-2 rocket from China's Xichang Satellite Launch Center. The Barcelona Moon Team is the only team based in Spain to take part in the Google Lunar X Prize, which challenges participants to create a robot that can m ... read more |
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  Curiosity rover set for first test drive NASA gave the Mars Curiosity rover driving commands ahead of its first test-drive across the Martian surface Wednesday, the space agency's field center said. ... more | .. |
  Space bugs for blood testing and more Thanks to ideas of putting swarms of tiny robot bugs to work on a future space station, patients being medicated for blood clots may soon get a simple, home-use testing kit, here on Earth. Fifteen y ... more | .. |
  Soft robots, in color A team of researchers led by George Whitesides, the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor, has already broken new engineering ground with the development of soft, silicone-based robots ... more | .. |
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 How a Mars Sample Return Mission Can Go Electric Solving the mystery of life on Mars requires robots to collect Martian samples for a return to Earth - a mission that may come with the astronomical price tag of $5 billion to $10 billion. That roun ... more | .. |
 Opportunity is on the Move Again Opportunity is on the move again at the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sols 3036 and 3037 (Aug. 8 and 9, 2012), the rover completed a set of Alpha Particle X-ray Spe ... more | .. |
 NASA Historic Test Stands Make Way for New Reusable Robotic Lander Neig The landscape around two historic test stands at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has changed and now features a free-flying robotic lander that will demonstrate automated re ... more | .. |
 NASA's 'Mighty Eagle' Robotic Prototype Lander Flies Again at Marshall The "Mighty Eagle," a NASA robotic prototype lander, is soaring high again for a series of tests being conducted at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Since its last round ... more |
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  Autonomous robotic plane flies indoors For decades, academic and industry researchers have been working on control algorithms for autonomous helicopters - robotic helicopters that pilot themselves, rather than requiring remote human guid ... more | .. |
  Researchers develop new physical face cloning method Animatronics aims at creating physical robots that move and look like real humans. Many impressive characters have been created in this spirit, like those in the Hall of Presidents attraction at Wal ... more | .. |
 NASA Curiosity Mars Rover Installing Smarts for Driving NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will spend its first weekend on Mars transitioning to software better suited for tasks ahead, such as driving and using its strong robotic arm. The rover's "brain transpl ... more | .. |
 Obama to NASA experts: 'Let me know if you find Martians' US President Barack Obama on Monday ribbed scientists behind NASA's roving robot Curiosity, instructing them to let him know right away if they found life on Mars. ... more |
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 NASA shows first 'crime scene' photo of Mars landing About 36 hours after NASA landed its $2.5 billion rover on Mars, it released Tuesday what it jokingly dubbed a "crime scene" aerial shot of where the parachute, heat shield and vehicle came down. ... more | .. |
 Curiosity's second day on Mars 'flawless': NASA NASA rover Curiosity's second day on Mars went "flawlessly," NASA said Wednesday, confirming the antennas, communication links and generator on the $2.5 billion robot are all working well. ... more | .. |
 NASA's Mars rover sends back stunning pictures After its first day on Mars, NASA's rover Monday sent back to Earth stunning images of its crater landing site and the mountain it aims to climb in the hunt for signs of life. ... more | .. |
 NASA lands rover on Mars to seek signs of life NASA opened a new chapter in the history of interplanetary exploration on Monday when its $2.5 billion nuclear-powered robot Curiosity beamed back pictures from the surface of Mars. ... more |
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Greenland is helpful, but not vital, for US missile defense
European military mission in Greenland as US aim 'remains intact'
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 Next on Mars: 400 scientists on an alien road trip Imagine taking 400 scientists on an alien road trip where each one wants to examine every interesting rock along the way. Welcome to the next two years of NASA's landmark robotic mission on Mars. ... more | .. |
 Curiosity Rover Just Hours from Mars Landing NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft is healthy and right on course for a landing in several hours that will be one of the most difficult feats of robotic exploration ever attempted. Emot ... more | .. |
 NASA confident ahead of nail-biter Mars landing NASA said Thursday all was well ahead of its nail-biting mission to Mars, with its most advanced robotic rover poised to hunt for clues about past life and water on Earth's nearest planetary neighbor. ... more | .. |
 Stretching Our Robotic Reach On Mars "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" Robert Browning asked in his 19th Century poem. This idea is what drives humankind to explore, to literally reach beyond and ... more |
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 Dextrous robotic hand gets thumbs up European researchers said Thursday they had developed the world's first real-sized, five-fingered robotic hand able to grasp and manipulate objects with human-like dexterity. ... more | .. |
Insect-like robot can walk, leap on water Canadian scientists say they've made a robot that not just walks on water like the water strider insect but leaps over the surface like its living counterpart. ... more | .. |
 The first robot that mimics the water striders' jumping abilities The first bio-inspired microrobot capable of not just walking on water like the water strider - but continuously jumping up and down like a real water strider - now is a reality. Scientists re ... more | .. |
  Science fiction comes to life in Italian lab Once the preserve of science fiction, increasingly sophisticated robotic devices are vying for a place side by side with humans in the real world. ... more |
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  Japanese cargo craft docks with ISS A robotic Japanese spaceship safely docked with the International Space Station carrying food, equipment and experiments, controllers said. ... more | .. |
 Kissenger: virtual lips for long-distance lovers Finding it hard to keep up the passion in a long-distance relationship? Help might be on the way. ... more | .. |
 NRL Brings Inertia of Space to Robotics Research The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Spacecraft Engineering Department's space robotics research facility recently took possession of a one-of-a-kind 75,000 pound Gravity Offset Table (GOT) made from ... more | .. |
 NASA Conducts Mission Simulations In Hawaii NASA is conducting a nine-day field test starting Tuesday outside Hilo, Hawaii, to evaluate new exploration techniques for the surface of the moon. These mission simulations, known as analog mission ... more |
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 Autonomous robot maps ship hulls for mines For years, the U.S. Navy has employed human divers, equipped with sonar cameras, to search for underwater mines attached to ship hulls. The Navy has also trained dolphins and sea lions to search for ... more | .. |
 Clemson researcher: humanizing computer aids affects trust, dependence Computerized aids that include person-like characteristics can influence trust and dependence among adults, according to a Clemson University researcher. A recently published study by Clemson ... more | .. |
 NASA's Car-Sized Rover Nears Daring Landing on Mars NASA's most advanced planetary rover is on a precise course for an early August landing beside a Martian mountain to begin two years of unprecedented scientific detective work. However, getting the ... more | .. |
Developing Technologies For Living Off the Land...In Space Each spacecraft, crewed or robotic, encounters an extraordinary spectrum of vast resources throughout its journey. From the first space missions onward, space architects and scientists have consider ... more |
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