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October 19, 2016

Euro-Russian craft enters Mars orbit, but lander's fate unknown
Darmstadt, Germany (AFP) Oct 19, 2016
Europe and Russia celebrated placing a robot explorer into Mars orbit on Wednesday, but ground controllers faced an anxious night searching for the tiny lander it had despatched to the Red Planet's surface. The "Schiaparelli" lander, a trial-run for a Mars rover to follow, was meant to touch down at 1448 GMT, after separating from its mothership, the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), on Sunday. But contact with the paddling pool-sized lander was lost during its six-minute descent through the Red Planet's ... read more

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Scientists simulate a space mission in Mars-analogue Utah desert A barren, rocky desert landscape and not a single soul around - to come as close as possible to the inhospitable conditions on the Red Planet, scientists of the Robotics Innovation Center of the Ger ... more		DARPA Helps Paralyzed Man Feel Again Using a Brain-Controlled Robotic Arm A DARPA-funded research team has demonstrated for the first time in a human a technology that allows an individual to experience the sensation of touch directly in the brain through a neural interfa ... more		Anyone can chat with the White House... through a bot It's now easy to chat on Facebook Messenger with the White House - or more accurately through the presidential "bot" released by the Obama administration on Friday. ... more
				Robot customs officers debut in South China ports Ten intelligent robots have started to work as customs officers at three ports in the cities of Zhuhai and Zhongshan, Southern China's Guangdong province on Saturday, according to the local customs ... more		Tech giants race for edge in artificial intelligence Major technology firms are racing to infuse smartphones and other internet-linked devices with software smarts that help them think like people. ... more

Computers should be named on patents as inventors, for creativity to flourish New research published by the University of Surrey in Boston College Law Review is calling for inventions by computers to be legally granted patents. The research states that the rapid increase in c ... more		Soft robots that mimic human muscles Robots are usually expected to be rigid, fast and efficient. But researchers at EPFL's Reconfigurable Robotics Lab (RRL) have turned that notion on its head with their soft robots. Soft robots ... more		BlackSky signs contract exceeding 30 million dollars to supply Gen-3 ISR for defense client Trump says not considering US strikes on Venezuela U.S. ordered all nonemergency personnel, family to leave Mali		Omnidirectional mobile robot has just 2 moving parts More than a decade ago, Ralph Hollis invented the ballbot, an elegantly simple robot whose tall, thin body glides atop a sphere slightly smaller than a bowling ball. The latest version, called SIMbo ... more
				Opportunity at First Science Spot of its 10th Extended Mission Opportunity is located at the terrain feature called 'Spirit Mount' on the rim of Endeavour Crater, the first science waypoint of the 10th extended mission. The rover has been positioned near ... more		Raytheon developing interface for DARPA's ground vehicle program Raytheon is developing situational awareness technology to support the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project's Agency's Ground X-Vehicle Technologies program. ... more

6th Annual Modular Construction Summit for Oil and Gas Agenda - December 7-9 - Houston

Nuclear Plant Digitalization Conference - Nov 15-16 - Charlotte NC USA

New NIST test bed makes the 'digital thread' accessible Researchers at the U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have launched the Smart Manufacturing Systems (SMS) Test Bed. The test bed is an innovative model ... more		NASA flight program tests Mars Lander vision system NASA tested new "eyes" for its next Mars rover mission on a rocket built by Masten Space Systems in Mojave, California, thanks in part to NASA's Flight Opportunities Program, or FOP. The agenc ... more		BlackSky signs contract exceeding 30 million dollars to supply Gen-3 ISR for defense client Trump says not considering US strikes on Venezuela U.S. ordered all nonemergency personnel, family to leave Mali		Your next nurse could be a robot The nursing assistant for your next trip to the hospital might be a robot. This is the implication of research recently published by Dr. Elena De Momi and colleagues in the open access journal Front ... more
First demonstration of brain-inspired device to power artificial systems New research, led by the University of Southampton, has demonstrated that a nanoscale device, called a memristor, could be used to power artificial systems that can mimic the human brain. Arti ... more		Scientists unveil first tetherless hopping robot A team of engineers with Disney Research have designed and built the first tetherless hopping robot, capable of bouncing on a single leg without an external power source. ... more		Mini "Pepper" robots start new jobs in Taiwan A shiny new cohort joined the workforce in Taiwan Thursday - a troop of mini robots all going by the name "Pepper", enlisted to entertain customers and give them the hard sell. ... more		Motion-directed robots on a micro scale Phototactic behaviour directs some bacteria towards light and others into darkness: This enables them to utilize solar energy as efficiently as possible for their metabolism, or, otherwise, protects ... more

	Students team up with NASA for space coms and navigation Millions of students across the country take on internships every year, but not all have the chance to be part of an innovative team pushing the boundaries of space communications. Summer interns wi ... more		QinetiQ, Milrem debut Titan unmanned ground vehicle QinetiQ North America and Milrem debuted their Titan unmanned ground vehicle this week at the 2016 Association of the United States Army event. ... more

Plastic waste may persist on ocean surfaces for generations model shows

Anvil Secure and D-Orbit outline steps to advance satellite cybersecurity across mission operations

Breakthrough achieved in uranium metal production for advanced reactor fuel

Clean room helps NASA robot explore frontiers of materials science		Robots galore as Asia's biggest tech fair kicks off		Rosetta's comet adventure in numbers		One-eyed robot learns to see in weightlessness		Deakin builds world-first robotic surgical system with sense of touch
Tech titans join to study artificial intelligence		Rosetta: The end of a space odyssey		Rosetta: How to end the fairytale		Pacamor Kubar Bearings awarded contract to support Mars 2020 Mission		JPL seeks robotic spacecraft development for Asteroid Redirect Mission

Servosila Robotic Arms product line is launched by Servosila

Team of robots learns to work together, without colliding

Stanford-hosted study examines how AI might affect urban life in 2030

Third European Rover Challenge Kicks Off in Poland

Industrial Robots: Rethinking the Status Quo

Scientists attempt to teach robots human values

'Materials that compute' advances as Pitt engineers demonstrate pattern recognition

Missing comet lander Philae spotted at last: ESA

Laundry-folding washing machine: eye-catching gizmos at IFA fair

Researchers unveil ciliated microbots

The evolution and future of automation

Stretchy supercapacitors power wearable electronics

Where does AlphaGo go

Science set to upstage fiction with Fantastic Voyage

The first autonomous, entirely soft robot

China unveils 2020 Mars rover concept: report

Air Pressure Makes Lifting a Breeze

'New port of call' installed at space station

From Solo Cup to an asteroid: NASA's newest space mission

NASA Space Robotics Challenge Prepares Robots for the Journey to Mars

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