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March 17, 2016

Rocket blasts off on Russia-Europe mission seeking life on Mars
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) March 14, 2016
Two robotic spacecraft on Monday began a seven-month journey to Mars as part of a European-Russian unmanned space mission to sniff out leads to life on the Red Planet. Russia's Proton rocket carrying the spacecraft launched into an overcast sky at the Russian-operated Baikonur cosmodrome in the Kazakh steppe at 0931 GMT according to plan, the Russian space agency Roscosmos and the European Space Agency (ESA) said. Roscosmos said the launch had taken place "successfully". ExoMars 2016, a c ... read more

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Opportunity seeking clay minerals on steeper slopes Opportunity is exploring steep outcrops within Marathon Valley on the rim of Endeavour crater. The rover is up on the very steep slopes of 'Knudsen Ridge'. The objective is to examine specific ... more		Coming to a hotel near you: the robot humanoid receptionist In a hotel not in a galaxy far, far away, a robot bids you welcome as you pull into the driveway. ... more		Hollywood robots: Movie machines may boost robot acceptance Remembering robots from film portrayals may help ease some of the anxiety that older adults have about using a robot, according to Penn State researchers. In a study, older adults who recalled ... more
				Super elastic electroluminescent 'skin' will soon create mood robots Imagine a health care robot that could display the patient's temperature and pulse, and even reacts to a patient's mood. It sounds futuristic, but a team of Cornell graduate students - led by Rob Sh ... more		Some assembly required to boost robot ratings Robot makers may want to follow Ikea's strategy for customer satisfaction and give people a chance to partially assemble their new robots to ease acceptance of the devices, according to Penn State r ... more

GM buys self-driving technology startup Cruise General Motors said Friday it is buying automated driving technology startup Cruise Automation to boost its efforts to develop self-driving cars. ... more		Mars robot launch now scheduled for May 2018: NASA The launch of a robot that will delve deep beneath the surface of Mars has been rescheduled for May 5, 2018, US space agency NASA said Wednesday. ... more		North Korea declares nuclear statehood 'permanently enshrined' ArianeGroup to develop next-generation M51.4 missile for French nuclear deterrent Comtech modem earns first sovereign certification for SES O3b mPOWER network		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
				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		Watch Google's AlphaGo computer take on world's best Go player Artificial intelligence has dominated Jeopardy and bested chess masters. Now, computers are aiming to master Go, a 3,000-year-old abstract board game. ... more

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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		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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