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Curiosity Drills Second Rock Target
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has used the drill on its robotic arm to collect a powdered sample from the interior of a rock called "Cumberland."
Plans call for delivering portions of the sample ... more
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Northrop Grumman, US Navy Complete Triton Unmanned Aircraft's First Flight
The Northrop Grumman-built MQ-4C Triton high-altitude unmanned aircraft successfully completed its first flight from the company's manufacturing facility in Palmdale.
Triton is specially desig ... more
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Principles of locomotion in confined spaces could help robot teams work underground
Future teams of subterranean search and rescue robots may owe their success to the lowly fire ant, a much-despised insect whose painful bites and extensive networks of underground tunnels are all-to ... more
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Robots learn to take a proper handoff by following digitized human examples
A humanoid robot can receive an object handed to it by a person with something approaching natural, human-like motion thanks to a new method developed by scientists at Disney Research, Pittsburgh in ... more
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Scientists uncover new quantum state that could power future technologies
Self-healing composite can make airplane, automobile and spacecraft components last for centuries
Pendulum device taps power from ocean currents
