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  Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 04, 2018 The new Russian manned spacecraft Federatsiya (Federation) is designed to deliver people and cargo to low earth orbit, as well as to the moon. The first such spaceship is expected to be commissioned by 2021. It will be a modernized version of the humanoid robot FEDOR (Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research) that is expected to be the first to fly to outer space on board the state-of-the-art manned spacecraft Federatsiya (Federation), Yevgeny Dudorov, technical director of the Russian rob ... read more |
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Space Maid: Robot Harpoon and Net System to Attempt Space CleanupMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 05, 2018 Humanity has grown accustomed to autonomous cleaning robots since the Roomba's debut in 2002. Now, we might have an upgrade: scientists have sent a prototype satellite equipped with a net and harpoo ... more  
'Ideas' conference to grapple with dark side of techSan Francisco (AFP) April 9, 2018 At a conference where thinkers and luminaries gather to discuss world-changing ideas and innovations, the talk is shifting to the dark side. ... more  
NASA's Idea to Send Swarm of Robots to MarsMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 05, 2018 NASA has announced their intent to fund research which will send a swarm of Robot bees up to Mars to explore the red planet. Sputnik spoke to Sethu Vijayakumar, Professor of Robotics at the Universi ... more 
Cargo-packed Dragon arrives at space stationTampa (AFP) April 4, 2018 SpaceX's unmanned Dragon cargo ship arrived Wednesday at the International Space Station, packed with food, gear and science experiments for the astronauts living in orbit. ... more |
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Make way for the mini flying machinesNew Orleans LA (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 Tiny floating robots could be useful in all kinds of ways, for example, to probe the human gut for disease or to search the environment for pollutants. In a step toward such devices, researchers des ... more  
Pipe-crawling robot will help decommission DOE nuclear facilityPittsburgh PA (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 A pair of autonomous robots developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute will soon be driving through miles of pipes at the U.S. Department of Energy's former uranium enrichment plan ... more 
How accurate is your AIKyoto, Japan (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 As AI's role in society continues to expand, J B Brown of the Graduate School of Medicine reports on a new evaluation method for the type of AI that predicts yes/positive/true or no/negative/false a ... more 
New 'AR' Mobile App Features 3-D NASA SpacecraftPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2018 NASA spacecraft travel to far-off destinations in space, but a new mobile app produced by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, brings spacecraft to users. The new app, called Spac ... more 
A new way to combine soft materialsBoston MA (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 Every complex human tool, from the first spear to latest smartphone, has contained multiple materials wedged, tied, screwed, glued or soldered together. But the next generation of tools, from autono ... more |
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360 Video: Tour a Mars Robot Test LabPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 12, 2018 NASA's InSight lander looks a bit like an oversized crane game: when it lands on Mars this November, its robotic arm will be used to grasp and move objects on another planet for the first time. ... more  |
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Tokyo Tech's six-legged robots get closer to natureTokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 13, 2018 A study led by researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) has uncovered new ways of driving multi-legged robots by means of a two-level controller. The proposed controller uses a netw ... more 
Next NASA Mars Rover Reaches Key Manufacturing MilestonePasadena CA (JPL) Mar 14, 2018 NASA's Mars 2020 mission has begun the assembly, test and launch operations (ATLO) phase of its development, on track for a July 2020 launch to Mars. The first planned ATLO activities will inv ... more  
Scientists Share Ideas for Gateway Activities Near the MoonWashington DC (SPX) Mar 08, 2018 NASA is looking at how the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway can create value for both robotic and human exploration in deep space. In late 2017, the agency asked the global science community to submit ... more  
Self-driving robots collect water samples to create snapshots of ocean microbesHonolulu HI (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 For the first time, scientists from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UH Manoa) and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) will deploy a small fleet of long-range autonomous underwat ... more  
Ag robot speeds data collection, analyses of crops as they growChampaign IL (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 A new lightweight, low-cost agricultural robot could transform data collection and field scouting for agronomists, seed companies and farmers. The TerraSentia crop phenotyping robot, developed ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 10, 2018 
SRC Inc. has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Air Force for services in support of counter unmanned aerial systems.
The deal, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is valued at $57.5 million under the terms of a undefinitized contract action.
The agreement enables SRC Inc., out of North Syracuse, N.Y., for counter unmanned aerial systems.
Work on the contract w ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 
IMAGE's signal remains too weak to achieve frame lock, which is necessary to retrieve data from the spacecraft. But important steps have been taken this week to be prepared in case of re-established contact.
Last week, the engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, successfully established network connections with both the antennas at NASA's Wallops Flight Faci ... more |
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 Vienna, Australia (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 
Two novel materials, each composed of a single atomic layer and the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope - these are the ingredients to create a novel kind of a so-called "quantum dot".
These extremely small nanostructures allow delicate control of individual electrons by fine-tuning their energy levels directly. Such devices are key for modern quantum technologies.
The theoretical ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 
Framatome successfully supported 44 scheduled outages at nuclear energy facilities across North America, including 16 emergent outages in 2017. The maintenance and inspection work, completed by over 3,600 passionate employees, enables these plants to continue efficiently and reliably generating electricity from the reactor fleet.
Work during the outages included examinations, inspections, ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 27, 2018 
A 43-year-old man has been arrested after around a dozen packages containing potentially explosive material were posted to military and intelligence facilities around the US capital, the FBI said Tuesday.
Thanh Cong Phan, who lives near the northwestern city of Seattle, was taken into custody after the FBI "determined that the packages contained potential destructive devices and appeared to ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 
Putting a price on carbon, in the form of a fee or tax on the use of fossil fuels, coupled with returning the generated revenue to the public in one form or another, can be an effective way to curb emissions of greenhouse gases. That's one of the conclusions of an extensive analysis of several versions of such proposals, carried out by researchers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laborat ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Apr 05, 2018 
As renewable energy grows as a power source around the world, one key component still eludes the industry: large-scale, stable, efficient and affordable batteries.
Lithium-ion batteries have proven successful for consumer electronics, but electric vehicles, wind turbines or smart grids require batteries with far greater energy capacity. A leading contender is the lithium-metal battery, whi ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 2, 2018 
The plunge back to Earth of a defunct Chinese space laboratory will not slow down Beijing's ambitious plans to send humans to the moon.
The Tiangong-1 space module, which crashed Monday, was intended to serve as a stepping stone to a manned station, but its problems highlight the difficulties of exploring outer space.
But China has come a long way in its race to catch up with the United ... more |
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 Melbourne, Australia (The Conversation) Apr 11, 2018 
Elon Musk's SpaceX reportedly has two people signed up for a trip around the Moon (although these plans have been delayed slightly), and Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has advanced plans to launch space tourists from 2018 for a mere US$250,000 each - hundreds of people have already registered.
Is there anyone reading this who didn't want to be an astronaut when they were a child? I was ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 10, 2018 
After a year of aerobraking, the Trace Gas Orbiter has finally reached a stable orbit around Mars and will soon commence with its science mission.
The Trace Gas Orbiter is the European Space Agency's newest Martian probe. It's goal is to survey the Red Planet's atmosphere in search of gases that could offer insights into geological or biological activity happening on Mars' surface.
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 Redmond WA (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 
Aerojet Rocketdyne's NEXT-C ion propulsion engine has successfully cleared NASA's critical design review (CDR), confirming the technology achieved all program requirements and is ready for final production of the flight units.
NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster-Commercial (NEXT-C) was developed by NASA and is being commercialized by Aerojet Rocketdyne. NEXT-C has 7kW of maximum power and g ... more |
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 Manila (AFP) April 6, 2018  The Philippine tourism industry scrambled Friday to manage the fallout from the temporary shutdown of its world-famous Boracay island, which threw into chaos trips planned by hundreds of thousands of tourists.
President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the once-idyllic white-sand resort closed to tourists for up to six months from April 26, after describing the country's top tourist attraction as a " ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) March 27, 2018 
US federal investigators said Tuesday they were examining a fatal crash last week involving a Tesla electric automobile in California.
The California Highway Patrol reported that a 38-year-old man died Friday after his 2017 Tesla Model X collided with a highway barrier near the town of Mountain View, according to The San Jose Mercury News.
The vehicle caught fire before two other approac ... more |
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 Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 
2D materials, which consist of a few layers of atoms, may well be the future of nanotechnology. They offer potential new applications and could be used in small, higher-performance and more energy-efficient devices. 2D materials were first discovered almost 15 years ago, but only a few dozen of them have been synthesized so far.
Now, thanks to an approach developed by researchers from EPFL ... more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 11, 2018
IMAGE's signal remains too weak to achieve frame lock, which is necessary to retrieve data from the spacecraft. But important steps have been taken this week to be prepared in case of re-established contact.
Last week, the engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, successfully established network connections with both the antennas at NASA's Wallops Flight Faci ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 
Soybean is rich in protein, which is great for the humans and animals eating it. But this high protein content comes at a cost.
To make protein, soybean plants need a lot of nitrogen. The plants get some of the nitrogen they need by working with specialized bacteria in the soil. These bacteria live in root nodules. They pull nitrogen from the atmosphere and convert it to a form the plants ... more |
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