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  Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 28, 2018 Scientists at Waseda University may have come a step closer to innovating soft robots to care for people. Its material, however, is something you may have never expected. They have developed robotic crystals that walk slowly like an inchworm and roll 20,000 times faster than its walking speed. These autonomously moving, organic crystals have great potential as material for soft robots in the future, especially in the medical field. "The crystals are flexible, durable and lightweight," says H ... read more |
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Opportunity Celebrates 5,000 Days on Mars, Snaps First 'Selfie'Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 26, 2018 Opportunity is continuing the exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positioned about half way down the valley. This past week the rover exceede ... more  
Putin signs new State Arms Program focused on cutting-edge weaponryMoscow (Sputnik) Feb 28, 2018 Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had signed the country's new state arms procurement program, which includes, among other things, robotics, ... more 
Brothers look to harness artificial intelligence for greater goodSan Francisco (AFP) Feb 26, 2018 As debate swirls on whether artificial intelligence will be a boon or a curse for humanity, two Indian-American entrepreneur brothers are out to ensure the emerging technologies don't just benefit the richest in society. ... more 
Google Assistant adds more languages in global pushSan Francisco (AFP) Feb 23, 2018 Google said Friday its digital assistant software would be available in more than 30 languages by the end of the years as it steps up its artificial intelligence efforts against Amazon and others. ... more |
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Oppy Takes A Selfie To Mark Sol 5000Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 16, 2018 The Sun will rise on NASA's solar-powered Mars rover Opportunity for the 5,000th time on Saturday, sending rays of energy to a golf-cart-size robotic field geologist that continues to provide revela ... more 
All-terrain microbot moves by tumbling over complex topographyWest Lafayette, IN (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 A new type of all-terrain microbot that moves by tumbling could help usher in tiny machines for various applications. The "microscale magnetic tumbling robot," or uTUM (microTUM), is about 400 by 80 ... more 
Researchers help robots think and plan in the abstractProvidence RI (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 Researchers from Brown University and MIT have developed a method for helping robots plan for multi-step tasks by constructing abstract representations of the world around them. Their study, publish ... more 
Can a cockroach teach a robot how to scurry across rugged terrain?Baltimore MD (SPX) Feb 14, 2018 When they turn up in family pantries or restaurant kitchens, cockroaches are commonly despised as ugly, unhealthy pests and are quickly killed. But in the name of science, Johns Hopkins researchers ... more 
Mars Opportunity Rover Energy Levels ImprovePasadena CA (JPL) Feb 13, 2018 Opportunity is continuing her exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover has moved along the north fork of a local flow channel about half way down the ... more |
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The robots will see you nowBrooklyn NY (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 For more than a decade, biomimetic robots have been deployed alongside live animals to better understand the drivers of animal behavior, including social cues, fear, leadership, and even courtship. ... more  |
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Quantum algorithm could help AI think fasterSingapore (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 One of the ways that computers 'think' is by analysing relationships within large sets of data. An international team has shown that quantum computers can do one such analysis faster than classical ... more 
Integration of AI and robotics with materials sciences will lead to new clean energy technologyToronto, Canada (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 Materials are the foundation of essentially all clean energy technologies including advanced batteries, solar cells, low-energy semiconductors, catalysts for capturing and storing CO2, and more. But ... more 
Army researchers develop new algorithms to train robotsAberdeen Proving Ground, MD (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin have developed new techniques for robots or computer programs to learn how to perform tasks by interacting with ... more 
Bezos hails Alexa as Amazon profits surgeSan Francisco (AFP) Feb 1, 2018 Amazon on Thursday reported its profits had more than doubled in the past quarter as company founder Jeff Bezos heaped praise on the performance of its Alexa digital assistant. ... more 
Opportunity Celebrates 14 Years of Working on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 05, 2018 Opportunity is continuing her exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover has moved along the north fork of the local flow channel. Continuing the exten ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 28, 2018 
Designed to infiltrate far into an enemy's territory, the new system will carry both guided and unguided munitions.
Russia is working on a long-range unmanned strike system, Zvezda, the official television channel of the Russian Ministry of Defense, has learned.
Speaking to the television channel, Alexander Nemov, deputy chief of the research department at the 30th Central Scientific ... more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 01, 2018
On Feb. 22, 2018, the signal from IMAGE began to break up and has been silent since Feb. 24. The team continues to assess what may be the issue, but it is known that this episode does not mimic the sudden silence that occurred in 2005 when contact was originally lost with the spacecraft. The team continues to make preparations to attempt to bring the attitude dete ... more |
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 Mainz, Germany (SPX) Feb 27, 2018 
Within the emerging field of spin-based electronics, or spintronics, information is typically defined by the orientation of the magnetization of ferromagnets. Researchers have recently been also interested in the utilization of antiferromagnets, which are materials without macroscopic magnetization but with a staggered orientation of their microscopic magnetic moments. Here the information is en ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 28, 2018 
An American legislator has expressed concern over the Trump administration's efforts to sign a nuclear cooperation accord with Saudi Arabia, which is preparing to build its first reactors.
Riyadh plans to announce at the beginning of March who will construct the first two of up to 16 reactors, and negotiations are under way with the United States for its agreement to export technology needed ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 28, 2018 
Three US Marines who were briefly hospitalized after a mysterious envelope was opened at a base near Washington were well enough to report for duty on Wednesday, a spokeswoman said.
Agents with the FBI and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) were still examining the envelope and its contents, which arrived late Tuesday at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall.
Shortly after receivin ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 28, 2018 
The electricity grids of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan could be connected through hundreds of miles of power lines, a regional lender said Wednesday.
A trilateral agreement was signed in Turkmenistan that outlined long-term power supply and trade between the three nations. The Asian Development Bank said the exchange would be supportive of Afghanistan's needs in particular. ... more |
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 Madison WI (SPX) Feb 27, 2018  Using advanced computational methods, University of Wisconsin-Madison materials scientists have discovered new materials that could bring widespread commercial use of solid oxide fuel cells closer to reality.
A solid oxide fuel cell is essentially an engine that provides an alternative way to burn fossil fuels or hydrogen to generate power. These fuel cells burn their fuel electrochemicall ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 26, 2018 
China will accelerate research and commercial use of rocket upper stages, a carrier rocket official said on Friday.
"The Yuanzheng rocket upper stage family will have a new member, Yuanzheng-1S, this year, serving launches for low and medium Earth orbit satellites," said Wang Mingzhe, an upper stage architect of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT).
Upper stages are ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Feb 28, 2018 
Three members of the Expedition 54 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS), including NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba, returned to Earth on Tuesday after months of performing research and spacewalks in low-Earth orbit.
Vande Hei, Acaba and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos landed at 9:31 p.m. EST (8:31 a.m. Feb. 28 in Kazakhstan) sout ... more |
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 Pullman WA (SPX) Feb 27, 2018 
For the first time, researchers have seen life rebounding in the world's driest desert, demonstrating that it could also be lurking in the soils of Mars. Led by Washington State University planetary scientist Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an international team studied the driest corner of South America's Atacama Desert, where decades pass without any rain.
Scientists have long wondered whether micr ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 01, 2018 
Tests of a Russian RD-180 liquid-fuel rocket engine have been carried out in the Science and Test Complex of Russia's NPO Energomash, the company said Wednesday in a statement.
"According to the head of the complex Andrey Ushkov, the tests went routinely, the test program has been fully implemented," the statement reads.
The reliable and relatively cheap RD-180 engine is developed an ... more |
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 Libreville (AFP) Feb 27, 2018 
Gabon on Tuesday accused Veolia of pollutingthe country as the government and the French company wage an increasingly bitter dispute in public over the cancellation of a contract for water and electricity distribution.
"There is considerable environmental damage at almost all of the sites exploited by SEEG," Communication Minister Alain-Claude Bilie By Nze told journalists, referring to the ... more |
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 Leipzig, Germany (AFP) Feb 27, 2018  A top German court on Tuesday ruled that cities can impose diesel driving bans to combat air pollution, a landmark decision that plunges millions of car owners into uncertainty.
The Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig found that local authorities can legally ban older, dirty diesels from certain zones as part of their efforts to improve air quality - a drastic move that could reshape in ... more |
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 Dallas TX (SPX) Mar 01, 2018 
A University of Texas at Dallas graduate student, his advisor and industry collaborators believe they have addressed a long-standing problem troubling scientists and engineers for more than 35 years: How to prevent the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope from crashing into the surface of a material during imaging or lithography.
Details of the group's solution appeared in the January is ... more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 01, 2018
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 01, 2018
On Feb. 22, 2018, the signal from IMAGE began to break up and has been silent since Feb. 24. The team continues to assess what may be the issue, but it is known that this episode does not mimic the sudden silence that occurred in 2005 when contact was originally lost with the spacecraft. The team continues to make preparations to attempt to bring the attitude dete ... more |
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 Cold Spring Harbor NY (SPX) Feb 28, 2018 
A simple genetic modification can triple the grain number of sorghum, a drought-tolerant plant that is an important source of food, animal feed, and biofuel in many parts of the world.
In new research reported in Nature Communications, scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have figured out how that genetic change boosts the plant's yield: by lowering the level of a key hormone ... more |
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