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March 08, 2016

Japan 'robo' dogs eyed for quake rescue missions
Fujimi, Japan (AFP) March 4, 2016
Rescue dog Gonta, outfitted with a GPS-enabled backpack but driven by his own innate sense of smell, jumps onto a pile of collapsed rubble to find buried survivors. Though just a drill, the intensity of the Brittany spaniel in scouring the mound of broken concrete highlights the key role of sniffer dogs in saving lives when buildings collapse, such as in earthquakes or explosions. Ten-year-old Gonta helped search for survivors after the massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2 ... read more

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Engineered swarmbots rely on peers for survival Duke University researchers have engineered microbes that can't run away from home; those that do will quickly die without protective proteins produced by their peers. Dubbed "swarmbots" for t ... more		In emergencies, should you trust a robot In emergencies, people may trust robots too much for their own safety, a new study suggests. In a mock building fire, test subjects followed instructions from an "Emergency Guide Robot" even after t ... more		Researchers unveil light-up, stretchable robot skin New robotic "skin" developed by researchers at Cornell University can stretch up to six times its original size while still emitting light. ... more
				Automatic programming makes swarm robots safer and more reliable Researchers from Sheffield Robotics have applied a novel method of automatically programming and controlling a swarm of up to 600 robots to complete a specified set of tasks simultaneously. Th ... more		Microrobots learn from ciliates Ciliates can do amazing things: Being so tiny, the water in which they live is like thick honey to these microorganisms. In spite of this, however, they are able to self-propel through water by the ... more

SSL developing robotic sample handling assembly for Mars 2020 Space Systems Loral (SSL), a leading provider of commercial satellites, has announced it will design and build a robotic Sample Handling Assembly (SHA) for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) thr ... more		Underwater robots can be programmed to make independent decisions More than 70 percent of the Earth's surface is covered by water, yet scientists know more about space than about what happens in the ocean. One way scientists are trying to improve their understandi ... more		European Response to Escalating Space Security Crisis BlackSky to deliver advanced Gen-3 tactical ISR capabilities to international customer Geopolitical instability and AI drive transformation in EO market		Could Laser Weapon Save Earth from Killer Asteroids? Potentially hazardous asteroid are still looming large in the minds of scientists engaged in planetary defense issues. Numerous strategies describing deflection of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) have bee ... more
				How Russia Can Counter the US's New 'Miracle Weapons' Last week, The Washington Post ran an op-ed entitled "The exotic new weapons the Pentagon wants to deter Russia and China." Pentagon officials, the piece explained, have begun talking openly about t ... more		Facebook donates servers to speed up research into AI Facebook announced Thursday it was donating computer servers to a number of research institutions across Europe, starting with Germany, to accelerate research efforts into artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. ... more

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Help NASA Create Better Vision for Robonaut Humans use glasses to help them see better, but for robots, the fix is in their code. NASA is asking coders to create algorithms for Robonaut 2, or R2, that will improve its 3-D vision. The Robonaut ... more		Boston Dynamics robot learns from being bullied Engineers at Google-owned Boston Dynamics have put their Atlas humanoid robot through a boot camp of bullying - pushing, shoving, tripping. ... more		European Response to Escalating Space Security Crisis BlackSky to deliver advanced Gen-3 tactical ISR capabilities to international customer Geopolitical instability and AI drive transformation in EO market		X Prize aims to show AI is friend not foe An X Prize unveiled on Wednesday promised millions of dollars to a team that could best show that artificial intelligence is humanity's friend, not its enemy. ... more
NASA Report Details Expert Team Investigation of Asteroid Redirect Mission A new report chartered by NASA provides input to important areas of robotic mission requirements development and explores the science benefits and potential knowledge gain from the agency's Asteroid ... more		Fuel cells powering inner-city vehicles Inner-city deliveries in Austria may soon be powered by pollution-free fuel cell technology that is also being explored by ESA for satellites and robotic missions to Mars. Austrian transport s ... more		Can fables, fairy tales teach robots morality? Researchers at Georgia Tech are attempting to give robots a sense of right and wrong by teaching them fairy tales. ... more		A global Olympic-style competition to advance assistive and robotic technologies According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), around 15% of the world's population is physically impaired to some degree. In order to overcome the hurdles of everyday life, many disabled people ... more

	When machines can do any job, what will humans do? University computer scientist Moshe Vardi expects that within 30 years, machines will be capable of doing almost any job that a human can. In anticipation, he is asking his colleagues to consider th ... more		Enabling human-robot rescue teams Autonomous robots performing a joint task send each other continual updates: "I've passed through a door and am turning 90 degrees right." "After advancing 2 feet I've encountered a wall. I'm turnin ... more

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NASA counting on humanoid robots in deep space exploration

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