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  London, UK (SPX) Jan 03, 2019 As far as we know, Mars is the only planet populated entirely by robots! Due to the time taken for commands to travel to Mars (eight minutes each way), hand guided robots are limited to travelling only a few dozen metres a day. New software developed in the UK will change this, enabling future Mars rovers to make their own decisions about where to go and how to get there, driving up to a kilometre per day so delivering more scientific returns per mission. The UK is a world leader in robotics ... read more |
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Growing bio-inspired shapes with hundreds of tiny robotsHeidelberg, Germany (SPX) Jan 02, 2019 Hundreds of small robots can work in a team to create biology-inspired shapes - without an underlying master plan, purely based on local communication and movement. To achieve this, researchers from ... more  
Siemens boss takes aim at Chinese buyoutsFrankfurt Am Main (AFP) Dec 21, 2018 Siemens boss Joe Kaeser on Friday lashed out at the practices used by Chinese investors to exercise total control over foreign firms, as disquiet grows about China's appetite for German technology and know-how. ... more 
Self-driving rovers tested in Mars-like MoroccoParis (ESA) Dec 21, 2018 Robots invaded the Sahara Desert for Europe's largest rover field test, taking place in a Mars-like part of Morocco. For two weeks three rovers and more than 40 engineers tested automated navigation ... more 
First Harris T7 bomb disposal robots sent to British armyWashington (UPI) Dec 26, 2018 The British army accepted the first four of 56 bomb disposal robots it ordered from Harris Corporation, the U.K. government announced. ... more |
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Planetary scientists assist in capturing image of Insight from orbitLondon, Canada (SPX) Dec 14, 2018 Houston, there is no problem here. Eric Pilles assisted in capturing - for the first-time ever - extraordinary and highly significant scientific images of the NASA InSight robotic lander using HiRIS ... more 
Robot shown on Russian TV revealed to be man in costumeMoscow (AFP) Dec 12, 2018 A "state-of-the-art" robot that appeared in a report on Russia's main TV news channel was revealed by internet users on Wednesday to be a man in a costume. ... more 
NASA's InSight takes its first selfiePasadena CA (JPL) Dec 12, 2018 NASA's InSight lander isn't camera-shy. The spacecraft used a camera on its robotic arm to take its first selfie - a mosaic made up of 11 images. This is the same imaging process used by NASA's Curi ... more 
Artificial joint restores wrist-like movements to forearm amputeesGothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 A new artificial joint restores important wrist-like movements to forearm amputees, something which could dramatically improve their quality of life. A group of researchers led by Max Ortiz Catalan, ... more 
NASA's Mars InSight Flexes Its ArmPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 07, 2018 New images from NASA's Mars InSight lander show its robotic arm is ready to do some lifting. With a reach of nearly 6 feet (2 meters), the arm will be used to pick up science instruments from ... more |
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Norfolk Navy Shipyard introducing exoskeletons for workersWashington (UPI) Dec 7, 2018 The Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Virginia is introducing exoskeletons for heavy manual work designed to prevent injuries and fatigue, according to the Navy. ... more  |
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Mars 2020 rover mission camera system 'Mastcam-Z' testing begins at ASUTempe AZ (SPX) Dec 06, 2018 Arizona State University research technician and Mars 2020 Mastcam-Z calibration engineer Andy Winhold waited patiently on the loading dock of ASU's Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building ... more  
UConn Research Project Heading to International Space StationStorrs CT (SPX) Dec 05, 2018 An experiment devised by researchers at UConn startup LambdaVision will be launched into space tomorrow. The company's robotic system to manufacture films that could cure blindness will be brought t ... more 
Insight into swimming fish could lead to robotics advancesBaltimore MD (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 The constant movement of fish that seems random is actually precisely deployed to provide them at any moment with the best sensory feedback they need to navigate the world, Johns Hopkins University ... more 
Flexible electronic skin aids human-machine interactionsWashington DC (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 Human skin contains sensitive nerve cells that detect pressure, temperature and other sensations that allow tactile interactions with the environment. To help robots and prosthetic devices attain th ... more 
Safely on Mars, InSight unfolds its arrays and snaps some picsWashington (AFP) Nov 29, 2018 After safely landing on Mars following its nearly seven month journey, NASA has released the first pictures taken by its InSight spacecraft, which has opened it solar arrays to charge batteries. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 28, 2018 
Insitu has won a $12 million contract for spare and sustainment parts for the Blackjack unmanned aircraft system, the Defense Department announced.
The company, a division of Boeing headquartered in Bergen, Wash., was awarded $12,167,690 for firm-fixed-price delivery against a previously issued basic ordering agreement for parts to maintain the Naval Supply Systems Command's RQ-21A Blac ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 3, 2019  Scientists have developed a small shape-changing sheet that contorts in reaction to chemical catalysts. The microfluidic sheet can form 3D shapes and move autonomously in a reactant-filled fluid.
"Now we have this integrated system that utilizes a chemical reaction to activate the fluid motion that simultaneously transports a flexible object and 'sculpts' its shape, and it all happens a ... more |
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 Osaka, Japan (SPX) Jan 03, 2019 
Quantum computing and quantum information processing technology have attracted attention in recently emerging fields. Among many important and fundamental issues in nowadays science, solving Schroedinger Equation (SE) of atoms and molecules is one of the ultimate goals in chemistry, physics and their related fields. SE is "First Principle" of non-relativistic quantum mechanics, whose solutions t ... more |
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 Tsukuba, Japan (SPX) Dec 27, 2018 
Nuclear fission is a process in which a heavy nucleus split into two. Most of the actinides nuclei (Plutonium, Uranium, Curium...) fission asymmetrically with one big fragment and one small. Empirically, the heavy fragment presents on average a Xenon element (with charge number Z=54) independently from the initial fissioning nucleus. To understand the mechanism that determines the number of prot ... more |
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 Ankara (AFP) Jan 3, 2019 
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday said Ankara and Baghdad would deepen cooperation against terrorism after tensions last month over Turkish air strikes against Kurdish militants in Iraq.
"We know the importance of working together to be successful in our fight against terror. God willing, in the future we will deepen our cooperation in this area," Erdogan told a press conf ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Dec 21, 2018 
The US Justice Department announced Friday the arrest of a Chinese national who allegedly stole trade secrets from a US oil company he worked for.
Tan Hongjin, 35, was arrested on Thursday in Oklahoma where he lived as a permanent resident.
The Justice Department said he stole trade secrets "related to a product worth more than $1 billion."
Tan, who lived in the United States for 12 ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Dec 27, 2018 
Researchers from the University of Houston and the Toyota Research Institute of America have discovered a promising new version of high-energy magnesium batteries, with potential applications ranging from electric vehicles to battery storage for renewable energy systems.
The battery, reported Dec. 21 in Joule, is the first reported to operate with limited electrolytes while using an organi ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 03, 2019  A Chinese lunar rover landed on the far side of the moon on Thursday, in a global first that boosts Beijing's ambitions to become a space superpower. The Chang'e-4 probe touched down and sent a photo of the so-called "dark side" of the moon to the Queqiao satellite, which will relay communications to controllers on Earth, state broadcaster CCTV said. Beijing is pouring billions into its military-run space programme, with hopes of having a crewed space station by 2022, and of eventually sending humans to the moon. ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 03, 2019 
The duration of the longest mission to the ISS to date is 215 days, according to a source in the aerospace industry.
The Russian manned Soyuz spacecraft will perform record-long missions to the International Space Station (ISS), lasting for seven months, this year, a source in the aerospace industry told Sputnik.
"Soyuz MS-12 is to be launched on March 1 and is to land on October 3 w ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 01, 2019 
As Dr Dartnell pointed out, at this point it is unclear whether life actually exists on Mars; and if it does exist, it remains to be seen how similar this life may be to that on Earth.
While NASA's InSight spacecraft successfully landed on Mars and began studying its surface, Dr Lewis Dartnell, an astrobiologist and researcher at the University of Westminster, said that another upcoming mi ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 03, 2019 
Scientists from Russia and around the world see plasma rocket technology as a crucial possible ingredient for speedy missions to Mars and beyond.
Physicists from the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk are preparing another round of experiments aimed at successfully harnessing the power of thermonuclear plasma for use ... more |
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 Singapore (SPX) Jan 04, 2019 
Economists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have completed an extensive study which reveals that exposure to air pollution over several weeks is not just unhealthy, it can also reduce employee productivity.
Associate Professor Alberto Salvo from the Department of Economics at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and an author of the study, explained, "Most of us are f ... more |
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 San Jos� (AFP) Dec 28, 2018 
Costa Rica likes to advertise itself as an ecological paradise, where more than 98 percent of its electricity needs are met by clean energy.
But in the automotive industry, it is lagging behind with just 600 out of 1.4 million private vehicles running on electricity rather than petrol or diesel.
Experts believe that is about to change, though.
Bernal Munoz, a director at Costa Rica's ... more |
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 Upton NY (SPX) Jan 04, 2019 
This holiday season, scientists at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) - a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory - have wrapped a box of a different kind. Using a one-step chemical synthesis method, they engineered hollow metallic nanosized boxes with cube-shaped pores at the corners and demonstrated how these "nanowrappers" can be ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Jan 3, 2019 Scientists have developed a small shape-changing sheet that contorts in reaction to chemical catalysts. The microfluidic sheet can form 3D shapes and move autonomously in a reactant-filled fluid.
"Now we have this integrated system that utilizes a chemical reaction to activate the fluid motion that simultaneously transports a flexible object and 'sculpts' its shape, and it all happens a ... more |
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 University Park PA (SPX) Jan 04, 2019 
A natural antioxidant found in grain bran could preserve food longer and replace synthetic antioxidants currently used by the food industry, according to researchers at Penn State.
"Currently, there's a big push within the food industry to replace synthetic ingredients with natural alternatives, and this is being driven by consumers," said Andrew S. Elder, doctoral candidate in food scienc ... more |
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