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February 16, 2013

Dry ice vacuum cleaner robot bound for Fukushima
Yokohama, Japan (AFP) Feb 15, 2013
A remote controlled robot that uses dry ice to vacuum up radiation was unveiled by Japanese researchers on Friday, the latest innovation to help the clean-up at Fukushima. The caterpillar-tracked device blasts dry ice - frozen CO2 - against floors and walls, evaporating and carrying radioactive substances with it, engineers said. The nozzle also sucks up the resulting gases. The robot has two boxy machines the size of large refrigerators and moves on crawlers that are remotely controlled. Each ... read more

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Boeing Phantom Eye Completes Taxi Tests, Readies for Return to Flight Boeing's liquid hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye unmanned aircraft system has completed taxi testing at Edwards Air Force Base in California as it progresses toward its second flight. During the t ... more		Foundation Helps Promote New Robotics Teams Worldwide The Robotics Education and Competition (REC) Foundation and the Northrop Grumman Foundation has announced a partnership to establish 200 new VEX Robotics Competition teams in locations worldwide and ... more		Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program Infleqtion lists shares on NYSE as neutral atom quantum firm Top Chinese gaming companies continue to challenge		NASA Curiosity Rover Collects First Martian Bedrock Sample NASA's Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and collect a sample from its interior. This is the first t ... more
				US drones kill nine in Pakistan: officials US drones fired two missiles into a compound in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt Friday, killing at least nine militants and wounding more than five others, local security officials said. ... more		Iran TV airs video of captured US drone Iranian state television has aired video footage that it says was extracted from a CIA drone it captured inside the Islamic republic's airspace in December 2011. ... more

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Boeing Phantom Eye Completes Taxi Tests, Readies for Return to Flight

US drones kill nine in Pakistan: officials

Iran TV airs video of captured US drone

Explosive breakthrough in research on molecular recognition

Researchers strain to improve electrical material and it's worth it

Indra Develops The First High-Resolution Passive Radar System

Building a biochemistry lab on a chip

New materials may be computer breakthrough

Cell circuits remember their history

Roof collapses at Chernobyl nuclear plant: Ukraine

Fukushima survivors to sue Japan government

Finland's TVO says reactor may be delayed until 2016

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AALTO plans Zephyr stratospheric hub in northern Australia and seeks local payload partners

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Elbit Systems to Supply Long-Range Observation Systems to the Israeli Ministry of Defense

US Army Awards AeroVironment Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Contract

Northrop Grumman Delivers Global Hawks to USAF

Northrop Grumman Building Company-Owned UAVs For Navy

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Northrop Grumman, Navy Select Telephonics Radar For Fire Scout UAS

2013 FIRST Robotics Kick-Off Event

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LS3 Four-Legged Robot Plays Follow the Leader

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"Sky Rider" to be integrated within the Digital Army Program

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