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November 30, 2016

Metallic Glass Gears Make for Graceful Robots
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 30, 2016
Throw a baseball, and you might say it's all in the wrist. For robots, it's all in the gears. Gears are essential for precision robotics. They allow limbs to turn smoothly and stop on command; low-quality gears cause limbs to jerk or shake. If you're designing a robot to scoop samples or grip a ledge, the kind of gears you'll need won't come from a hardware store. At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, technologist Douglas Hofmann and his collaborators are building a better g ... read more

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Micro-bubbles make big impact The quest to develop a wireless micro-robot for biomedical applications requires a small-scale "motor" that can be wirelessly powered through biological media. While magnetic fields can be used to p ... more		Radar of the Future: Russian Army to Get Advanced Stealth Drone Hunter The Zavod Electromash plant in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod has created a unique stealth robotic system capable of detecting unmanned aerial vehicles, Zavod Electromash spokesman Valery Pyatk ... more		New standard helps optical trackers follow moving objects precisely Throwing a perfect strike in virtual bowling doesn't require your gaming system to precisely track the position and orientation of your swinging arm. But if you're operating a robotic forklift aroun ... more
				DARPA Creating Industry Government Group for Safe Operation of Space Robotics Recent technological advances have made the longstanding dream of on-orbit robotic servicing of satellites a near-term possibility. The potential advantages of that unprecedented capability are enor ... more		It takes less than a second to tell humans from androids It can be hard to tell the difference between humans and androids in such sci-fi TV shows as "Westworld." But in real life, beyond our screens, the human brain takes less than a second to tell betwe ... more

Designing Agile Human-Machine Teams Modern military operations are dynamic and complex-requiring, for example, that infantry squads carry out their missions simultaneously in the 3-dimensional physical world, the cyber domain, and acr ... more		Nylon fibers made to flex like muscles Artificial muscles - materials that contract and expand somewhat like muscle fibers do - can have many applications, from robotics to components in the automobile and aviation industries. Now, MIT r ... 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		Researchers create living bio-hybrid system One of the biggest challenges in cognitive or rehabilitation neurosciences is the ability to design a functional hybrid system that can connect and exchange information between biological systems, l ... more
				New AI algorithm taught by humans learns beyond its training "Hey Siri, how's my hair?" Your smartphone may soon be able to give you an honest answer, thanks to a new machine learning algorithm designed by U of T Engineering researchers Parham Aarabi and Wenz ... more		NASA field test focuses on science of lava terrains, like Early Mars Was Mars home to microbial life? Is it today? What can it teach us about life elsewhere in the cosmos or how life began on Earth? What clues will we discover about Earth's past, present and future? ... more

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

Report confirms scientific benefits of NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission A new report provides expert findings from a special action team on how elements of the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) can address decadal science objectives and help close Strategic Knowledge Gaps ... more		Researchers question if banning of 'killer robots' actually will stop robots from killing A University at Buffalo research team has published a paper that implies that the rush to ban and demonize autonomous weapons or "killer robots" may be a temporary solution, but the actual problem i ... 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		Researchers use acoustic waves to move fluids at the nanoscale A team of mechanical engineers at the University of California San Diego has successfully used acoustic waves to move fluids through small channels at the nanoscale. The breakthrough is a first step ... more
International engineering team develop self-powered mobile polymers One of the impediments to developing miniaturized, "squishy" robots is the need for an internal power source that overcomes the power-to-weight ratio for efficient movement. An international group i ... more		Scientists come up with light-driven motors to power nanorobots of the future Scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICP RAS), and Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry o ... more		Bottlebrush polymers make dielectric elastomers viable for use in devices A multi-institutional research team has developed a new electroactive polymer material that can change shape and size when exposed to a relatively small electric field. The advance overcomes two lon ... more		Artificial-intelligence system surfs web to improve its performance Of the vast wealth of information unlocked by the Internet, most is plain text. The data necessary to answer myriad questions - about, say, the correlations between the industrial use of certain che ... more

	Crowd workers help robot keep conversation fresh People can find a hundred ways to say the same thing, which poses a challenge to robots that are expected to keep up their end of conversations. A Disney Research team's solution is to devise an aut ... more		Scientists develop a semiconductor nanocomposite material that moves in response to light A research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has developed a revolutionary, light-activated semiconductor nanocomposite material that can be used in a variety of applications, including ... more

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Stephen Hawking opens British artificial intelligence hub

Scientists simulate a space mission in Mars-analogue Utah desert

DARPA Helps Paralyzed Man Feel Again Using a Brain-Controlled Robotic Arm

Computers should be named on patents as inventors, for creativity to flourish

Soft robots that mimic human muscles

Anyone can chat with the White House... through a bot

Robot customs officers debut in South China ports

Tech giants race for edge in artificial intelligence

Omnidirectional mobile robot has just 2 moving parts

Opportunity at First Science Spot of its 10th Extended Mission

Raytheon developing interface for DARPA's ground vehicle program

New NIST test bed makes the 'digital thread' accessible

NASA flight program tests Mars Lander vision system

Your next nurse could be a robot

First demonstration of brain-inspired device to power artificial systems

Scientists unveil first tetherless hopping robot

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