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  Toyohashi, Japan (SPX) Jul 12, 2017 Expectations for care robots are growing against the backdrop of declining birthrates, an aging population, and a lack of care staff. As an example, for care at nursing homes and other such facilities, it is anticipated that robots will check the condition of the residents while patrolling the facility. When evaluating a person's condition, while an initial estimation of the pose (standing, sitting, fallen, etc.) is useful, most methods to date have utilized images. These methods face challenges s ... read more |
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Government Agencies Turn to Private Sector for Help Adopting Intelligent TechnologiesMcLean, VA (SPX) Jul 10, 2017 Intelligent technologies like advanced analytics and biometrics/identity analytics can help government agencies fulfill their missions to improve the delivery of public services and meet the rising ... more 
Three European firms join in robot ship projectParis (AFP) July 11, 2017 Three European companies are to work on a pioneering project to build a fully-automated supply ship, the French member of the scheme announced on Tuesday. ... more 
Pizza bytes! Pakistan enchanted by first robot waitressesMultan, Pakistan (AFP) July 6, 2017 Pakistan's first robot waitresses are serving up smiles for customers at an upscale pizza restaurant in the ancient city of Multan, better known for its centuries-old Sufi shrines, mango orchards and handicrafts. ... more  
Dragon Splashes Down to Complete Resupply MissionHouston TX (SPX) Jul 07, 2017 SpaceX's Dragon cargo craft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 8:12 a.m. EDT, west of Baja California and the recovery process is underway, marking the end of the company's eleventh contracted ca ... more |
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South Korea develops self-propelled howitzerWashington (UPI) Jun 29, 2017 South Korea has developed an upgraded a self-propelled 105mm howitzer and is preparing to mass produce it beginning next year. ... more 
Scientists design robot to aid visually impaired schoolchildrenWashington (UPI) Jul 3, 2017 A pair of researchers from France and Switzerland have designed a robot to help visually impaired children navigate classroom environments. ... more 
AI Will Prepare Robots for the UnknownPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 26, 2017 How do you get a robot to recognize a surprise? That's a question artificial intelligence researchers are mulling, especially as A.I. begins to change space research. A new article in the jour ... more 
Snake robot could help maintain space station, explore moonWashington (UPI) Jun 20, 2017 Scientists at SINTEF, a research institute in Norway, are working on designs for a snake robot that could one day carry out maintenance missions on the space station and explore lava tubes on the moon. ... more 
Developing New Approaches to Celestial Threats Using AIMountain View, CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2017 What do astrophysicist Steven Hawking, Queen guitarist Brian May and the country of Luxembourg have in common? They're all key figures in Asteroid Day - a UN sanctioned day of education to raise awa ... more 
Moisture-responsive 'robots' crawl with no external power sourceWashington DC (SPX) Jun 28, 2017 Using an off-the-shelf camera flash, researchers turned an ordinary sheet of graphene oxide into a material that bends when exposed to moisture. They then used this material to make a spider-like cr ... more |
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Personalized exoskeletons are taking support one step fartherWashington DC (SPX) Jun 26, 2017 Researchers have developed an exoskeleton system that provides personalized support for its user. In healthy volunteers, the optimized exoskeleton reduced energy expenditure during walking by 24%, o ... more 
Numenta demonstrates machine intelligence algorithm for real-time anomaly detectionRedwood City CA (SPX) Jun 22, 2017 The exponential increase in the use of connected real-time sensors to surface streaming data in the age of the Internet of Things presents significant challenges and opportunities for the emerging f ... more  
Laser-targeting AI Yields More Mars SciencePasadena CA (JPL) Jun 26, 2017 Artificial intelligence is changing how we study Mars. A.I. software on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has helped it zap dozens of laser targets on the Red Planet this past year, becoming a frequent sc ... more  
Ten ways that astronauts are helping you stay healthyLondon, UK (SPX) Jun 21, 2017 Astronauts on the International Space Station are growing crystals that could help develop new drugs for use on Earth. Here are ten healthcare technologies that have already come from space: 1 ... more |
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  Washington (UPI) Jul 11, 2017 
A functional drone, together with a simulated IED device, has been developed by Explotrain LLC, a Florida-based small business for the training of troops.
ExploDrone features a reusable drone carrying lightweight pneumatic-based Explosive Blast Simulators used in the Kamikaze-like crash of the drone into a target area.
The system also uses smaller drones that carry simulations of ... more Washington (UPI) Jun 30, 2017New Reaper drone variant performs first combat mission  Washington DC (SPX) Jun 29, 2017Smart Quadcopters Find their Way without Human Help or GPS  Washington DC (UPI) Jun 24, 2017Rafael unveils Drone Dome anti-drone system |
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 Morgantown WV (SPX) Jul 12, 2017 
The technology developed by researchers at West Virginia University that helped them win the NASA Sample Return Robot Challenge may be headed to Mars. Majid Jaridi, professor of industrial and management systems engineering, and Yu Gu, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, have received a three-year, $750,000 grant from NASA to develop ways to increase the onboard autonomy ... more Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jul 10, 2017Giant enhancement of electromagnetic waves revealed within small dielectric particles  Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jul 07, 2017ANU invention may help to protect astronauts from radiation in space  Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 10, 20176 teams share honors and money in NASA's 2nd 3-D Print a Habitat challenge |
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 Orlando FL (SPX) Jul 07, 2017 
An international research team that includes University of Central Florida Professor Enrique del Barco, Damien Thompson of the University of Limerick and Christian A. Nijhuis of the National University of Singapore has cracked an important limitation that for nearly 20 years has prevented the practical use of molecular diodes.
Electrical circuits are the basic building blocks of modern ele ... more Linkoping, Sweden (SPX) Jul 07, 2017High-precision control of printed electronics  Boston MA (SPX) Jul 07, 2017Three-dimensional chip combines computing and data storage  Seoul (AFP) July 4, 2017Samsung to invest $18 billion in memory chip business |
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 Paris (AFP) July 10, 2017 
France's new environment minister said Monday that nearly a third of the country's nuclear reactors could be shut under plans to scale back the amount of electricity produced from atomic power.
In 2015, the previous Socialist-dominated parliament passed a law obliging the government to reduce the proportion of electricity generated from nuclear to 50 percent by 2025 compared with around 75 p ... more Paris (AFP) July 10, 2017Mitsubishi, Assystem take stakes in France's nuclear reactors firm  Brussels (AFP) July 12, 2017Britain must leave EU nuclear body: Verhofstadt  Cherbourg, France (AFP) July 5, 2017Sixth MOX nuclear shipment leaves France for Japan |
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 Washington (AFP) July 12, 2017 
United States military advisers are operating inside the city of Raqa, the Islamic State group's last major bastion in Syria, a US official said Wednesday.
The troops, many of them special operations forces, are working in an "advise, assist and accompany" role to support local fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces as they battle IS, said Colonel Ryan Dillon, a military spokesman.
T ... more Beirut (AFP) July 11, 2017Baghdadi 'The Ghost': world jihad's low-profile boss Baghdad (AFP) July 9, 2017Baghdadi 'The Ghost': world jihad's low-profile boss Beirut (AFP) July 11, 2017IS chief reported dead after jihadists lose Mosul |
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 Washington (AFP) July 7, 2017 
Google parent Alphabet is spinning off a little-known unit working on geothermal power called Dandelion, which will begin offering residential energy services.
The announcement Thursday took the wraps off one of the secretive projects at the Alphabet unit X, known notably for its work on self-driving cars and internet balloons.
Dandelion chief executive Kathy Hannun said her team had bee ... more San Diego CA (SPX) Jun 27, 2017Fighting global warming and climate change requires a broad energy portfolio  (UPI) Jun 12, 2017Low-carbon trajectory is the only option, European leaders say Washington (UPI) Jun 8, 2017Divestment streak continues for British energy company Centrica |
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Jul 07, 2017 
Two major issues confronting magnetic-confinement fusion energy are enabling the walls of devices that house fusion reactions to survive bombardment by energetic particles, and improving confinement of the plasma required for the reactions. At the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), researchers have found that coating tokamak walls with lithium-- a light ... more Philadelphia PA (SPX) Jul 12, 2017Conductive electrodes are key to fast-charging batteries  Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Jul 10, 2017Iron secrets behind superconductors unlocked  Raleigh NC (SPX) Jul 10, 2017Smart transformers could make reliable smart grid a reality |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 10, 2017 
China has a clear plan to provide sea launches for commercial payloads to be carried by Long March rockets, according to an aerospace official.
Tang Yagang, vice head of the aerospace division of the No.1 institute of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASTC), said that the technology is not difficult and a sea launch platform can be built based on modifying 10,000-ton ... more Beijing (Sputnik) Jul 07, 2017Chinese Rocket Fizzles Out, Puts Other Launches on Hold  Beijing (XNA) Jul 07, 2017Chinese satellite Zhongxing-9A enters preset orbit  Beijing (Sputnik) Jul 07, 2017Chinese Space Program: From Setback, to Manned Flights, to the Moon |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 11, 2017 
Founded in 2009, the Houston, Texas-based company NanoRacks LLC provides commercial hardware and services onboard the International Space Station (ISS) for government and commercial customers. To date, the firm has sent more than 550 payloads from over 30 countries to ISS, creating trends in commercial hardware in space. In an interview with Astrowatch.net, Jeffrey Manber, the founder and CEO of ... more Paris (ESA) Jul 10, 2017Counting calories in space  Cape Canaveral (AFP) July 9, 2017Trump offers bold space goals but fills in few details  Cape Canaveral (AFP) July 9, 2017Liftoff for Trump's bold space plans may have to wait |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 13, 2017 
The car-size NASA rover on a Martian mountain, Curiosity, has begun its long-anticipated study of an iron-bearing ridge forming a distinctive layer on the mountain's slope.
Since before Curiosity's landing five years ago next month, this feature has been recognized as one of four unique terrains on lower Mount Sharp and therefore a key mission destination. Curiosity's science team informal ... more Paris (AFP) July 6, 2017Mars surface 'more uninhabitable' than thought: study  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 03, 2017Mars Rover Opportunity continuing science campaign at Perseverance Valley  Washington (UPI) Jun 29, 2017The Niagara Falls of Mars once flowed with lava |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 10, 2017 
Researchers at The University of Manchester, in collaboration with Central South University (CSU), China, have created an innovative ceramic coating that could revolutionize hypersonic travel - for defense, space and even air travel purposes.
Hypersonic travel is defined as moving at Mach five or above - at least five times faster than the speed of sound. While a historic aspiration of avi ... more Sacramento CA (SPX) Jul 10, 2017Aerojet Rocketdyne tests Advanced Electric Propulsion System  Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 07, 2017Russia to Carry Out Five Launches From Vostochny Space Center in 2018  Cape Canaveral (AFP) July 5, 2017After two delays, SpaceX launches broadband satellite for IntelSat |
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 Lowell MA (SPX) Jul 13, 2017 
Vast amounts of toxic mercury are accumulating in the Arctic tundra, threatening the health and well-being of people, wildlife and waterways, according to a UMass Lowell scientist investigating the source of the pollution.
A research team led by Prof. Daniel Obrist, chairman of UMass Lowell's Department of Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, found that airborne mercury is gather ... more Beijing, China (SPX) Jul 03, 2017Human activities worsen air quality in Dunhuang, a desert basin in China  Paris (AFP) July 4, 2017Herbicide boost for tadpoles: study  Washington (UPI) Jun 21, 2017Scientists probe role of sunscreen in accelerating coral reef decline |
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 Osnabruck, Germany (SPX) Jul 07, 2017 
Can a self-driving vehicle be moral, act like humans do, or act like humans expect humans to? Contrary to previous thinking, a ground-breaking new study has found for the first time that human morality can be modelled meaning that machine based moral decisions are, in principle, possible.
The research, Virtual Reality experiments investigating human behavior and moral assessments, from The ... more Frankfurt Am Main (AFP) July 10, 2017German 'dieselgate' investigators target Porsche employees  Blacksburg VA (SPX) Jul 12, 2017Forget defrosting your car at a glacial pace  Paris (AFP) July 6, 2017France 'to end sales of petrol, diesel vehicles by 2040' |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2017 
Engineers at Caltech have for the first time developed a light detector that combines two disparate technologies - nanophotonics, which manipulates light at the nanoscale, and thermoelectrics, which translates temperature differences directly into electron voltage - to distinguish different wavelengths (colors) of light, including both visible and infrared wavelengths, at high resolution.
... more Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Jun 16, 2017Chemists perform surgery on nanoparticles  Lund, Sweden (SPX) Jun 20, 2017Silver atom nanoclusters could become efficient biosensors  Chicago IL (SPX) Jun 16, 2017Superconducting nanowire memory cell, miniaturized technology |
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Morgantown WV (SPX) Jul 12, 2017
The technology developed by researchers at West Virginia University that helped them win the NASA Sample Return Robot Challenge may be headed to Mars. Majid Jaridi, professor of industrial and management systems engineering, and Yu Gu, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, have received a three-year, $750,000 grant from NASA to develop ways to increase the onboard autonomy ... moreMoscow, Russia (SPX) Jul 10, 2017Giant enhancement of electromagnetic waves revealed within small dielectric particles Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jul 07, 2017ANU invention may help to protect astronauts from radiation in space Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 10, 20176 teams share honors and money in NASA's 2nd 3-D Print a Habitat challenge |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jul 07, 2017 
As the old saying goes, teaching someone to fish is far more helpful than just giving them a fish. Now, research from WorldFish and MIT takes that adage a step further: Better yet, the study found, is working with the fishermen to help develop better fishing methods.
Involving local people in figuring out how to improve their farming and fishing methods provides more lasting and widespread ... more Sede Boqer, Israel (SPX) Jul 13, 2017Using treated graywater for irrigation is better for arid environments  Los Angeles (AFP) July 12, 2017Disneyland China falls a-fowl of huge turkey leg demand  Colombo, Sri Lanka (SPX) Jul 07, 2017Global use of wastewater to irrigate agriculture at least 50 percent greater than thought |
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