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April 10, 2014

New algorithm aids in both robot navigation and scene understanding
Boston MA (SPX) Apr 07, 2014
Suppose you're trying to navigate an unfamiliar section of a big city, and you're using a particular cluster of skyscrapers as a reference point. Traffic and one-way streets force you to take some odd turns, and for a while you lose sight of your landmarks. When they reappear, in order to use them for navigation, you have to be able to identify them as the same buildings you were tracking before - as well as your orientation relative to them. That type of re-identification is second nature for hum ... read more

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Britain develops robotic mannequin A robotic mannequin for testing military protective suits and equipment has been built under sponsorship by Britain's Ministry of Defense. ... more		Joint venture established for exoskeleton technology Exoskeleton technologies are being jointly developed by French technology company Sagem and an Italian robotics laboratory. ... more		New Catalog Brings NASA Software Down to Earth From the rudimentary but effective Apollo Guidance and Navigation System that landed the first humans on the lunar landscape to the code used to manage robotic missions to explore other planets, sof ... more
				Science, Discovery Channels to broadcast private race to the moon Just a week after Google announced its Lunar X competition, teams of engineers and scientists are racing to build a robotic spacecraft that can successfully land on the moon. A prize of $30 million awaits the first to accomplish the feat - and so does television stardom. ... more		Scientists unveil 'BionicKangroo Robot' If a human tries to move around simply by jumping, he or she is likely to get very tired, very fast. The human body isn't designed to jump over and over again. ... more

CubeSats, SmallSats and MicroSats

Phoenix Makes Strides in Orbital Robotics and Satellite Architecture Research The process of designing, developing, building and deploying satellites is long and expensive. Satellites today cannot follow the terrestrial paradigm of "assemble, repair, upgrade, reuse," and must ... more		Knowledge transfer: Computers teach each other Pac-Man Researchers in Washington State University's School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science have developed a method to allow a computer to give advice and teach skills to another computer in ... more		'Sign of life': defence boom lifts German factory orders MDA Space wins role in US SHIELD missile defense program Starfighters completes supersonic tests for GE Aerospace ramjet program		US seniors see slow migration to tech: study American senior citizens are gradually finding their way to the Internet, but lagging the overall population in online usage, a survey showed Thursday. ... more
				Comet lander awakes from long hibernation European space experts said on Friday they had successfully reawakened a fridge-sized robot designed to make the first-ever spacecraft landing on a comet. ... more		Lick's Automated Planet Finder: First robotic telescope for planet hunters Lick Observatory's newest telescope, the Automated Planet Finder (APF), has been operating robotically night after night on Mt. Hamilton since January, searching nearby stars for Earth-sized planets ... more

UAV Payloads 2014, 24 - 25 June - London, UK

International Conference on Protection of Materials and Structures From Space Environment

Nuclear Supply Chain Summit - April 28-29 Greenville SC

Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison & Memory Foam Mattress Review

Robotic arm probes chemistry of 3-D objects by mass spectrometry When life on Earth was first getting started, simple molecules bonded together into the precursors of modern genetic material. A catalyst would have been needed, but enzymes had not yet evolved. ... more		'RoboClam' replicates a clam's ability to burrow while using little energy The Atlantic razor clam uses very little energy to burrow into undersea soil at high speed. Now a detailed insight into how the animal digs has led to the development of a robotic clam that can perf ... more		'Sign of life': defence boom lifts German factory orders MDA Space wins role in US SHIELD missile defense program Starfighters completes supersonic tests for GE Aerospace ramjet program		Chinese farmers make 'Transformers' out of used cars A group of farmers have brought to life the "Transformers" films, toys and TV series and built giant robots out of old car parts, in rural China. ... more
				As Age-Friendly Technologies Emerge, Experts Recommend Policy Changes From smart phones to smart cars, both public and private entities must consider the needs of older adults in order to help them optimize the use of new technologies, according to the latest issue of ... more		Tiny transistors for extreme environs University of Utah electrical engineers fabricated the smallest plasma transistors that can withstand high temperatures and ionizing radiation found in a nuclear reactor. Such transistors someday mi ... more

Remote Troops Closer to Having High-Speed Wireless Networks Mounted on UAVs

Northrop Grumman to Build Five More MQ-8C Fire Scouts for the US Navy

LockMart and US Navy Demonstrate Airborne Autonomy Technology

Headwall Extends Global Reach in Asia/Pac and Israel

A new twist for better steel

Hyperspectral Software Announced for Airborne Applications

Future computers that are 'normally off'

Groundbreaking optical device could enhance optical information processing, computers

Intel lays off of 1,500 employees in Costa Rica

French prosecutor probes Areva buy of Canadian miner

Czech energy firm scraps nuclear plant expansion

Czech Moravian-Silesian Region Fundamental To Temelin AP1000

	World's First Entirely Auto Cleaned Solar Energy Park Ecoppia has announced that the Ketura Sun solar park in Israel's Negev desert, jointly owned by Siemens AG and solar energy pioneer Arava Power, is now the world's first autonomously-cleaned solar e ... more		Comet-probing robot to wake from hibernation A fridge-sized robot lab hurtling through the Solar System aboard a European probe is about to wake from hibernation and prepare for the first-ever landing by a spacecraft on a comet. ... more		The DARPA Grand Challenge: Ten Years Later At the break of dawn on March 13, 2004, 15 vehicles left a starting gate in the desert outside of Barstow, Calif., to make history in the DARPA Grand Challenge, a first-of-its-kind race to foster th ... more		The Exploration of Murray Ridge Continues Opportunity continues to explore 'Murray Ridge' on Solander Point, part of the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 3596 (March 6, 2014), the rover moved forward to put a rock called 'Turnagain Arm,' wit ... more

Dancing isn't enough: industry pushes for practical robots

AI gobbling up memory chips essential to gadget makers

From sci-fi to sidewalk: exoskeletons go mainstream

Soft robotic fish moves like the real thing		Robot Snowden promises more US spying revelations		Robots, hands-free wizardry wows at high-tech fair		"Space Odyssey": China's aspiration in future space exploration		Researchers Achieve Breakthrough in Robotics for Space Exploration
NASA Tests New Robotic Refueling Technologies		Robotic Exploration of Moon, Mars a Priority		NVision Introduces RoboScanner		Touchy-feely joystick heading to ISS		Rolls-Royce believes time of drone cargo ships has come

China's Lunar Lander Still Operational

ILS Tech redefines M2M and IoT Cloud services

Kinshasa co-op hopes to conquer the world with traffic robots

Making nanoelectronics last longer for medical devices, 'cyborgs'

China firm awaits ruling in Apple Siri lawsuit

Quest for jellyfish robot leads to discovery of bending rules for animal wing, fin tips

RoboDoc to the rescue: NASA to send robotic doctor to space

Sustainable manufacturing system to better consider the human component

Google unveils 'Project Tango' 3D smartphone platform

What to expect from Dyson's new robotics lab

Busy Week of Imaging and Robotic Arm Studies

Robotic fish aids understanding of how animals move

Robotic construction crew needs no foreman

New system combines control programs so fleets of robots can collaborate

NASA Tests New Technologies for Robotic Refueling

MIT robot may accelerate trials for stroke medications

Russian-European spacecraft to go on Martian mission in Jan 2016

Calculated Risks: How Radiation Rules Mars Exploration

Scientists develop 'friendly' robot to improve human-android bond

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