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October 21, 2016

Rover Conducting Science Investigations at 'Spirit Mount'
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 19, 2016
Opportunity is located at the feature called 'Spirit Mount' on the rim of Endeavour Crater, the first science waypoint of the 10th extended mission. The rover is by the surface featured called 'Gasconade,' conducting detailed in-situ (contact) investigations with the robotic arm. On Sol 4515 (Oct. 5, 2016), Opportunity used the robotic arm to collect a Microscopic Imager (MI) mosaic of the target, then place the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) on an offset from Gasconade for a multi-hour ... read more

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In a first, brain computer interface helps paralyzed man feel again Imagine being in an accident that leaves you unable to feel any sensation in your arms and fingers. Now imagine regaining that sensation, a decade later, through a mind-controlled robotic arm that i ... more		Euro-Russian craft enters Mars orbit, but lander's fate unknown 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. ... more		Stephen Hawking opens British artificial intelligence hub Professor Stephen Hawking on Wednesday opened a new artificial intelligence research centre at Britain's Cambridge University. ... 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		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

New mobile robot to support agri-tech experiments in the field Scientists at the University of Lincoln, UK, have taken delivery of an advanced new mobile robot to support agri-tech experiments at the University's agricultural field station. The Thorvald a ... 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		AI powered SAR imagery analysis tool launched by SATIM and ICEYE Ghosts of the Deep: China's AJX-002 XLUUV and the Geopolitics of Undersea Power Global Invacom unveils XRJ transceiver for government and defense satcom		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
				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

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

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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		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		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

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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

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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

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