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January 11, 2013

NASA's Big Mars Rover Makes First Use Of Its Brush
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 10, 2013
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed first-time use of a brush it carries to sweep dust off rocks. Nearing the end of a series of first-time uses of the rover's tools, the mission has cleared dust away from a targeted patch on a flat Martian rock using the Dust Removal Tool. The tool is a motorized, wire-bristle brush designed to prepare selected rock surfaces for enhanced inspection by the rover's science instruments. It is built into the turret at the end of the rover's arm. In partic ... read more

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NASA's Big Mars Rover Makes First Use Of Its Brush NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed first-time use of a brush it carries to sweep dust off rocks. Nearing the end of a series of first-time uses of the rover's tools, the mission has cleared d ... more		US Army Awards AeroVironment Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Contract AeroVironment, Inc. reports that the United States Army has selected it and four other companies to compete for future small UAS requirements under a new Firm Fixed-Price Indefinite Delivery Indefin ... more		Elbit Systems to Supply Long-Range Observation Systems to the Israeli Ministry of Defense Elbit Systems subsidiary, Elbit Systems Electro-Optics Elop ("Elop") recently was awarded a contract to supply long-range observation and target acquisition systems to the Israel Ministry of Defense ... more
				Northrop Grumman, Navy Select Telephonics Radar For Fire Scout UAS Northrop Grumman, under contract to the U.S. Navy, has selected Telephonics Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Griffon Corporation, Long Island, N.Y., to provide a multimode maritime radar sy ... more		Scientists Use Marine Robots to Detect Endangered Whales Two robots equipped with instruments designed to "listen" for the calls of baleen whales detected nine endangered North Atlantic right whales in the Gulf of Maine last month. The robots reported the ... more

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Northrop Grumman Delivers Global Hawks to USAF Northrop Grumman has completed early delivery of two Global Hawk unmanned aircraft to the U.S. Air Force. Global Hawk allows military commanders to receive high-resolution imagery, survey vast geogr ... more		Northrop Grumman Building Company-Owned UAVs For Navy Northrop Grumman is building a company-owned unmanned aircraft for use as a development and demonstration platform for at-sea surveillance under the U.S. Navy's MQ-4C Triton program. Triton pr ... more		Greenland is helpful, but not vital, for US missile defense European military mission in Greenland as US aim 'remains intact' Amazon expands 'sovereign cloud' in Europe		Global Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Payload Market to Reach $68.6 billion by 2022 The two month postponement of the "fiscal cliff's" automatic spending cuts, including cuts to America's defense budget originally proposed by last year's sequestration deal, may be welcome news for ... more
				Opportunity Scores Another Dust Cleaning Event At Vermillion Opportunity is on the inboard edge of "Cape York" on the rim of Endeavour crater. The rover has been conducting in-situ (contact) science investigations with the robotic arm instruments at a locatio ... more		2013 FIRST Robotics Kick-Off Event The 2013 FIRST Robotics Competition kicks off on Jan. 5, 2013. The kickoff event will be broadcast on NASA TV and marks the beginning of the season for high school students from across the nation to ... more

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Crew Wraps Up Robonaut Testing The Expedition 34 crew of the International Space Station powered up Robonaut 2 for more remote testing Thursday, deployed hardware for a study of the effects of long-duration spaceflight on the hum ... more		Crew Prepares for Student Robotics Competition The Expedition 34 crew wrapped up its first workweek of the new year aboard the International Space Station with scientific research, routine maintenance and preparations for robotics competition ta ... more		Greenland is helpful, but not vital, for US missile defense European military mission in Greenland as US aim 'remains intact' Amazon expands 'sovereign cloud' in Europe		LS3 Four-Legged Robot Plays Follow the Leader For the past two weeks, in the woods of central Virginia around Fort Pickett, the Legged Squad Support System (LS3) four-legged robot has been showing off its capabilities during field testing. ... more
				What a UAV Can Do With Depth Perception When a person reaches out to place an object in just the right place, their mind makes a series of judgments requiring vision, stability and careful movement. Trying to do the same thing robotically ... more		"Sky Rider" to be integrated within the Digital Army Program The Artillery Corps "Sky Rider" Unit is preparing to deploy a new UAS (Unmanned Aircraft Systems) which will introduce a significant improvement in its takeoff, flight and visual capabilities, trans ... more

NASA's Big Mars Rover Makes First Use Of Its Brush

NASA's Big Mars Rover Makes First Use Of Its Brush

Northrop Grumman, Navy Select Telephonics Radar For Fire Scout UAS

LEON: the space chip that Europe built

Oscillating Gel Gives Synthetic Materials the Ability to "Speak"

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New biochip technology uses tiny whirlpools to corral microbes

Power spintronics: Producing AC voltages by manipulating magnetic fields

Researchers demonstrate record-setting p-type transistor

Indian minister says Areva nuclear deal is close

Another tiny miracle: Graphene oxide soaks up radioactive waste

A French nuclear exit?

	Mission would drag asteroid to the moon NASA is considering a mission to capture an asteroid and drag it into the moon's orbit for study, researchers in California have confirmed. ... more		US drone attacks kill eight in Pakistan: officials At least eight militants were killed and four others wounded Tuesday when US drones fired missiles at militant compounds in a lawless Pakistani tribal area, security officials said. ... more		US drones kill 12 Taliban in Pakistan: officials US drones fired a volley of missiles at militant hideouts in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 12 Taliban fighters near the Afghan border, security officials said. ... more		Hydrogen peroxide vapor enhances hospital disinfection of superbugs Infection control experts at The Johns Hopkins Hospital have found that a combination of robot-like devices that disperse a bleaching agent into the air and then detoxify the disinfecting chemical a ... more

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Engineered ligands deliver durable high efficiency perovskite solar cells

Pendulum device taps power from ocean currents

Stanford researchers develop acrobatic space rovers to explore moons and asteroids		Iran claims shooting down two US-made RQ-11 drones		US drone strike kills Pakistani warlord: officials		US drone strike kills Pakistani warlord: officials		'Spiky' rovers could explore martian moon
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Working Through the Holidays

US drone strike kills four in Pakistan: officials

Japan security firm to offer private drone

Pentagon to sell spy drones for $1.2bln to South Korea

Seoul says has other drone options than Global Hawks

Smart SPHERES Fly High Aboard the International Space Station

Opportunity For Some Shoulder Workout At Copper Cliff

DARPA developing robotic mule

Northrop Grumman, US Navy Complete At-Sea Deck Handling Trials of X-47B Unmanned Demonstrator

Pakistani drone crashes in northwest: officials

CU-Boulder team develops swarm of pingpong ball-sized robots

Head-mounted cameras could help robots understand social interactions

Flexing fingers for micro-robotics: Berkeley Lab scientists create a powerful, microscale actuator

Hat Trick for X-37B

NASA Gravity Probes Prepare to Hit the Moon

Research: Tiny robots may think as a group

Boeing Demos Unmanned Little Bird for Republic of Korea Army

Boeing's Reusable, Unmanned X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Begins Second Flight

Mystery Air Force space plane launched

Custom robots could do Fukushima cleanup

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