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  Washington (UPI) Nov 28, 2018 SpaceBok, a robotic hopper, is currently undergoing tested in the European Space Agency's Mars Yard. On Wednesday, ESA released an image of the four-legged robot navigating cragged, red-tinged rocks. SpaceBok was designed by a team of students from a pair of Swiss research universities, ETH Zurich and ZHAW Zurich. Students and researchers designed the robot for the purpose of navigating uneven, low-gravity environments like those found on the surface of the moon and Mars. The Mars Yard i ... read more |
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Embark on a NASA technology scavenger hunt with Optimus PrimeGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 29, 2018 How much NASA technology is in your life? Through the NASA OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Promotion and Research Challenge (OPSPARC), OPTIMUS PRIME and the AUTOBOTS encourage students to embark on three miss ... more 
DARPA, BAE to develop AI for interpreting radio-frequency signalsWashington (UPI) Nov 27, 2018 BAE Systems has been selected by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop machine learning algorithms to decipher radio frequency signals for protection against enemy hacking and jamming attempts. ... more 
Smarter AI: Machine learning without negative dataTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 A research team from the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) has successfully developed a new method for machine learning that allows an AI to make classifications without what is k ... more 
GMV leads an ambitious campaign of space robotics trialsMadrid, Spain (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 Since mid-September the technology multinational GMV has been taking part in the final field tests of the projects included under the European Commission's (H2020) Strategic Research Cluster ( SRC ) ... more |
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What two planetary siblings can teach us about lifePasadena CA (JPL) Nov 21, 2018 Mars and Earth are like two siblings who have grown apart. There was a time when their resemblance was uncanny: Both were warm, wet and shrouded in thick atmospheres. But 3 or 4 billion years ... more  
Robotic arm links cargo craft to International Space StationWashington (UPI) Nov 19, 2018 A robotic arm successfully docked the Cygnus cargo craft to the International Space Station on Monday, the second shipment of supplies in less than 24 hours. ... more 
Nepal's first robot waiter is ready for ordersKathmandu (AFP) Nov 15, 2018 "Please enjoy your meal," says Nepal's first robot waiter, Ginger, as she delivers a plate of steaming dumplings to a table of hungry customers. ... more 
HP3 mole onboard NASA's InSight mission soon to land on MarsBonn, Germany (SPX) Nov 20, 2018 It will be the deepest hole ever hammered into another celestial body using manmade technology. During the NASA InSight mission, the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3), the Mole, which ... more 
Exploration makes perfectby Staff Writers Testing the technology to explore other planets starts on Earth. While robots scout uncharted terrains, moonwalkers analyse rocks and send detailed geological descriptions to mission control. Artifi ... more |
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 NASA OSIRIS-REx flexes its "arm" before arriving at Asteroid Bennu 
US mulls curbs on artificial intelligence exportsWashington (AFP) Nov 20, 2018 The administration of US President Donald Trump is exploring curbing exports of sensitive technologies including artificial intelligence for national security reasons, according to a proposal this week. ... more  |
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How NASA will know when InSight touches down on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 19, 2018 What's the sound of a touchdown on Mars? If you're at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it sounds like winning the Super Bowl: cheers, laughter and lots of hollering. But in the minutes before ... more  
Space Tango unveils ST-42 for scalable manufacturing in space for Earth-based applicationsLexington KY (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 Space Tango has announced ST-42, a fully autonomous robotic orbital platform designed specifically for scalable manufacturing in space. Launching in the mid 2020's, ST-42 aims to harness the u ... more
How to make AI less biasedBoston MA (SPX) Nov 19, 2018 With machine learning systems now being used to determine everything from stock prices to medical diagnoses, it's never been more important to look at how they arrive at decisions. A new appro ... more  
TAGSAM testing complete: OSIRIS-REx prepared to TAG an asteroidTucson AZ (SPX) Nov 17, 2018 On Nov. 14, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft stretched out its robotic sampling arm for the first time in space. The arm, more formally known as the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM), i ... more 
Researchers in Japan make android child's face strikingly more expressiveOsaka, Japan (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 Japan's affection for robots is no secret. But is the feeling mutual in the country's amazing androids? We may now be a step closer to giving androids greater facial expressions to communicate with. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 28, 2018 
Logos Technologies announced Wednesday that it has successfully demonstrated its Redkite wide-area motion imagery sensor to representatives from defense, law enforcement and civilian agencies in The Netherlands at Bosschenhoofd airfield.
The flight is the first time the Redkite has been demonstrated for government officials, the company said.
The Redkite is built in a pod configu ... more |
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 Durham NC (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 
Materials scientists at Duke University and UC San Diego have discovered a new class of carbides expected to be among the hardest materials with the highest melting points in existence. Made from inexpensive metals, the new materials may soon find use in a wide range of industries from machinery and hardware to aerospace.
A carbide is traditionally a compound consisting of carbon and one o ... more |
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 Darmstadt, Germany (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 
Electrical engineers in the accelerator physics group at TU Darmstadt have developed a design for a laser-driven electron accelerator so small it could be produced on a silicon chip. It would be inexpensive and with multiple applications. The design, which has been published in Physical Review Letters, is now being realised as part of an international collaboration.
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 Paris (AFP) Nov 27, 2018 
French President Emmanuel Macron earned global plaudits for pledging to "Make our planet great again," but he faces a moment of truth at home Tuesday in presenting his multi-year roadmap for France's transition to cleaner energy.
The 10-year blueprint comes as Macron is facing fractious "yellow vest" protests by French citizens' angry over a string of yearly fuel tax increases to finance gre ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Nov 27, 2018 
The Pentagon warned Russia on Tuesday against interfering with the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria's regime-held city of Aleppo.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime has accused armed groups of carrying out a "toxic gas" attack Saturday that left dozens of people struggling to breathe and prompted government ally Russia to launch retaliatory air strikes against "terr ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) Nov 8, 2018 
An EU court ruled Thursday that Brussels regulators are wrong to test the energy efficiency of vacuum cleaners using empty dust bags, in a victory for British manufacturer Dyson.
Household vacuums sold in Europe must carry energy labelling to allow consumers to judge which models are more efficient and thus cheaper to run and less damaging to the environment.
But Dyson, which makes clean ... more |
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 Garching, Germany (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 
During the course of the step-by-step upgrading of Wendelstein 7-X, the plasma vessel was fitted with inner cladding since September of last year. Graphite tiles are now protecting the vessel walls. In addition, the so-called "divertor" is used to regulate the purity and density of the plasma.
In ten broad strips on the wall of the plasma vessel, the divertor tiles follow the contour of th ... more |
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Nov 23, 2018  According to Euroconsult's latest report, China Space Industry 2018, the China space value chain had an estimated size of more than $16 billion in 2017, with the downstream market accounting for just over 85%. Satellite Navigation, one of the key satellite applications in China, was the main revenue generator in 2017, ahead of Satellite Communications and Earth Observation.
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 Houston TX (Sputnik) Nov 27, 2018 
Analysis has shown that all five strains of the mysterious bacterium found on the space station belonged to one species, called Enterobacter bugandensis. They resembled the genomes that infected newborn babies on our planet, raising concerns that they could also threaten the astronauts' health.
Astronauts on board the International Space Station are coexisting with a colony of "space bugs" ... more |
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 Pasadena, United States (AFP) Nov 26, 2018  Cheers and applause erupted at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday as a $993 million unmanned lander, called InSight, touched down on the Red Planet and managed to send back its first picture.
The high-drama landing of the waist-high spacecraft capped a nearly seven year journey, from spacecraft design, to launch to eventual touchdown, marking the eighth successful landing on Mars in ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 28, 2018 
The newest space station resupply mission, SpaceX CRS-16, features a diversity of science experiments organized by the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory.
SpaceX's Dragon capsule is scheduled to be carried into space by the company's Falcon 9 rocket on Dec. 4. The rocket and payload will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida ... more |
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 Halle, Germany (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 
Advances in environmental technology: You don't need complex filters and laser systems to destroy persistent pollutants in water. Chemists at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have developed a new process that works using mere sunlight. The process is so simple that it can even be conducted outdoors under the most basic conditions. The chemists present their research in the journal ... more |
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 Frankfurt Am Main (AFP) Nov 22, 2018 
A battle of words erupted between German Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer and EU Commissioner Elzbieta Bienkowska Thursday, after Brussels cancelled a planned ministerial meeting on diesel when Scheuer said he wouldn't attend.
It was "pointless" to hold a meeting on the increasingly unpopular fuel without Europe's largest car-manufacturing country present, Bienkowska told business newspape ... more |
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 Dresden, Germany (SPX) Nov 15, 2018 
A team of scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), in collaboration with researchers from Monash University Australia, has succeeded in significantly increasing the stability and biocompatibility of special light-transducing nanoparticles.
The team has developed the so-called "upconverting" nanoparticles that not only convert infrared light into UV-visible light, bu ... more |
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Durham NC (SPX) Nov 27, 2018
Materials scientists at Duke University and UC San Diego have discovered a new class of carbides expected to be among the hardest materials with the highest melting points in existence. Made from inexpensive metals, the new materials may soon find use in a wide range of industries from machinery and hardware to aerospace.
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 Niamey Nov 26, 2018 
Floods destroyed more than 400 hectares (1,000 acres) of rice in Niger's southeastern Diffa region, already beset by deadly attacks by Boko Haram jihadists, the local governor said.
Nearly 3,000 tonnes of rice worth 717 million CFA francs (more than one million euros, $1.13 million) have been lost as a result, Governor Mahamadou Bakabe said on state television late Sunday.
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