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September 19, 2014

ISS Crew Trains to Capture Dragon
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 19, 2014
While they await next week's launch of the other half of their crew to the International Space Station, Expedition 41 Commander Max Suraev and Flight Engineers Reid Wiseman and Alexander Gerst focused Wednesday on health checks, cargo operations and robotic practice for the capture of the SpaceX Dragon resupply ship set to launch Saturday. Commander Suraev began the day downloading micro-accelerometer data from the Identification experiment. This study measures the loads on the station during dyna ... read more

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Cutting the cord on soft robots When it comes to soft robots, researchers have finally managed to cut the cord. Developers from Harvard's School for Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired ... more		NASA's Mars Curiosity rover reaches 'far frontier' NASA's $2.5 billion Curiosity rover has reached the base of the Martian mountain it aims to explore and should start drilling rocks there soon, US space agency scientists said Thursday. ... more		Top trends at IFA 2014, Europe's biggest gadget fair From smartwatches to "phablets" to precision robot vacuum cleaners, Europe's IFA consumer electronics show showcases the latest in gadget wizardry. ... more
				iRobot supplying its PackBots to Canada Nearly two dozen robotic reconnoitering systems are to be provided to the Canadian Department of National Defense by Massachusetts-headquartered iRobot Corp. ... more		Robots do battle over Mars exploration Robots built to traverse the rugged terrain of Mars battled it out in Poland on Friday in a competition to find the best way to explore the Red Planet. ... more

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NASA's RapidScat: Some Assembly Required - in Space NASA's ISS-RapidScat wind-watching scatterometer, which is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station no earlier than Sept. 19, will be the first science payload to be robotically assemb ... more		Watch MIT's Atlas robot carry heavy objects A robot that can carry objects of different weights in each of its hands could be valuable to industries like construction, warehouse work and much more. ... more		Five European NATO powers vow to tackle 'hybrid threats' Colombia inks $4.3 bn deal to buy Swedish warplanes US to hold new military exercises with Trinidad and Tobago		DARPA issues RFI for robotic space services for satellites The U.S. military is looking for space robotic services for critical satellites in geostationary Earth orbit. ... more
				NASA Invites Public to Submit Messages for Asteroid Mission Time Capsule NASA is inviting the worldwide public to submit short messages and images on social media that could be placed in a time capsule aboard a spacecraft launching to an asteroid in 2016. Called th ... more		Magal introducing RoboGuard security system in Israel A sensor system that travels a monorail attached to a perimeter fence for surveillance has been introduced by Magal Security Systems Ltd. ... more

Startup in the Land of the Rising Sun; A Japanese Solar Venture - by Bradley L. Bartz

'Robo Brain' will teach robots everything from the Internet Robo Brain - a large-scale computational system that learns from publicly available Internet resources - is currently downloading and processing about 1 billion images, 120,000 YouTube videos, and 1 ... more		Robonaut Gets New Legs as Trio Prepares for Homecoming Expedition 40 participated in health checks, Robonaut upgrades and Soyuz emergency drills Wednesday. The International Space Station also boosted its orbit setting the stage for a crew departure and ... more		Five European NATO powers vow to tackle 'hybrid threats' Colombia inks $4.3 bn deal to buy Swedish warplanes US to hold new military exercises with Trinidad and Tobago		China Aims for the Moon, Plans to Bring Back Lunar Soil Chinese scientists are in the course of developing a recoverable lunar robotic spacecraft Chang'e 5 that is to reach the Moon by 2017 with a mission to deliver samples of rock and soil back to Earth ... more
Delivery by drone In the near future, the package that you ordered online may be deposited at your doorstep by a drone: Last December, online retailer Amazon announced plans to explore drone-based delivery, suggestin ... more		Russia's First Exoskeleton to Help Physically Impaired A team of Russian exoskeleton designers said Monday they were looking for disabled patients who would agree to volunteer for human tests in the country's unique ExoAtlet Project, according to Izvest ... more		Calculations with Nanoscale Smart Particles Researchers from the Institute of General Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences and MIPT have made an important step to ... more		Hitchhiking robot reaches journey's end in Canada A chatty robot with an LED-lit smiley face sent hitchhiking across Canada this summer as part of a social experiment reached its final destination Thursday after several thousand kilometers on the road. ... more

	Curiosity's Brushwork on Martian 'Bonanza King' Target NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used the Dust Removal Tool on its robotic arm to brush aside reddish, more-oxidized dust, revealing a gray patch of less-oxidized rock material at a target called "Bonanz ... more		A self-organizing thousand-robot swarm The first thousand-robot flash mob has assembled at Harvard University. "Form a sea star shape," directs a computer scientist, sending the command to 1,024 little bots simultaneously via an infrared ... more

Renewables outpace fossil fuels despite US policy shift: IEA

At COP30, senator warns US 'deliberately losing' clean tech race with China

Wallets, not warming, make voters care about climate: California governor

Exoskeleton technology set for Navy testing and evaluation		Graphene-based planar micro-supercapacitors for on-chip energy storage		Robots inspired by origami can fold selves, walk away		The ISS just dumped 3,300 lbs of space trash to burn up in Earth's atmosphere		Robo-cook: android restaurant boots up in China
Remotec upgrading Army, Marine EOD robots		'Flashmob' robots swarm themselves into shape		Robots to up-end the world of work, for good and bad		Last European cargo ship docks with space station		Small, origami-inspired pop-up robots function autonomously

Robotic-assisted imaging will help in daily hospital practice

Space cargo ship set for docking with ISS

More Tasks for China's Moon Mission

NASA Selects Proposals for Advanced Energy Storage Systems

Toxic red tide nears Florida coast

US EVAa Delayed; Crew Preps For Russian EVA, Robonaut Upgrades

Robotic Rock Climbers Could Uncover Clues to Mars' Past

Robonaut Upgrades, Spacewalk Preps and Cargo Ops for ISS Crew

Hitchhiking robot thumbs its way across Canada

Europe launches last resupply ship to space station

China's Circumlunar Spacecraft Unmasked

Mars 2020 rover will carry tools to make oxygen

Japanese leader proposes first-ever 'Robot Olympics'

NASA Seeks Proposals for Commercial Mars Data Relay Satellites

End dawns for Europe's space cargo delivery role

Astronauts to Test Free-Flying "Housekeeper" Robots

This time for the PLA: Chinese army shows off dancing robots

Wake up, robot

Really smart cars are ready to take the wheel

Human or robot? Hit Swedish TV series explores shrinking divide

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