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  Boston MA (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 Bad news for ophiophobes: Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new and improved snake-inspired soft robot that is faster and more precise than its predecessor. The robot is made using kirigami - a Japanese paper craft that relies on cuts to change the properties of a material. As the robot stretches, the kirigami surface "pops up" into a 3D-textured surface, which grips the ground just like snake skin. The first-gener ... read more |
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Giving robots a better feel for object manipulationBoston MA (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 A new learning system developed by MIT researchers improves robots' abilities to mold materials into target shapes and make predictions about interacting with solid objects and liquids. The system, ... more 
FEDOR Space Rescuer: Roscosmos 'Trains' Anthropomorphic Robot for Manned MissionMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 15, 2019 Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos and Rocket and Space Corporation Energia have received FEDOR (Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research) anthropomorphic robot for its potential use ... more 
NASA 'Nose' importance of humans, robots exploring togetherGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 NASA is sending humans forward to the Moon, this time to stay. Upcoming expeditions to the Moon will require making every moment of astronaut time outside the safety of the Gateway in orbit and luna ... more  
Things Are Stacking Up for NASA's Mars 2020 SpacecraftPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 19, 2019 For the past few months, the clean room floor in High Bay 1 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has been covered in parts, components and test equipment for the Mars 2020 sp ... more |
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When robots commit wrongdoing, people may incorrectly assign the blameWashington DC (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 Last year, a self-driven car struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. The woman's family is now suing Arizona and the city of Tempe for negligence. But, in an article published on April 5 i ... more 
Robots created with 3D printers could be caring for those in golden yearsWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 The world's elderly population is booming. The number of older people - those age 60 years or older - is expected to more than double by 2050 and is growing faster than all younger age groups across ... more  
Maxar and NASA complete Design Review for Restore-L On-Orbit Servicing Spacecraft BusWestminster CO (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 Maxar Technologies reports that the spacecraft bus it is building for NASA's Restore-L project to refuel a satellite in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) has completed an important review process called the Cri ... more 
Laying the ground for robotic strategies in environmental protectionBoston MA (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 Along developed riverbanks, physical barriers can help contain flooding and combat erosion. In arid regions, check dams can help retain soil after rainfall and restore damaged landscapes. In constru ... more 
Google workers want ultra-conservative off AI councilSan Francisco (AFP) April 1, 2019 A group of Google employees launched a public campaign Monday to remove the president of the conservative think-tank Heritage Foundation from an outside artificial intelligence ethics advisory panel. ... more |
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'Edtech' boom transforms how Indian kids learnMumbai (AFP) March 31, 2019 From a multi-billion-dollar education startup to wired-up mannequins, technology is helping to revolutionise the way Indian schoolchildren are learning - provided their parents can afford it. ... more  |
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GITAI signs joint robotic research agreement with JAXATokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 27, 2019 GITAI (Head Office: San Francisco, US; Japanese Branch: Meguro, Tokyo) has signed a joint research agreement with JAXA (the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency). Experiments in using GITAI's ... more 
Using AI to build better human-machine teamsWashington DC (SPX) Mar 25, 2019 The inability of artificial intelligence (AI) to represent and model human partners is the single biggest challenge preventing effective human-machine teaming today. Current AI agents are able ... more 
Dynamic hydrogel used to make 'soft robot' components and LEGO-like building blocksProvidence RI (SPX) Mar 25, 2019 Using a new type of dual polymer material capable of responding dynamically to its environment, Brown University researchers have developed a set of modular hydrogel components that could be useful ... more 
Ankle exoskeleton fits under clothes for potential broad adoptionNashville TN (SPX) Mar 25, 2019 A new lightweight, low-profile and inexpensive ankle exoskeleton could be widely used among elderly people, those with impaired lower-leg muscle strength and workers whose jobs require substantial w ... more 
4D-printed materials can be stiff as wood or soft as spongeNew Brunswick NJ (SPX) Mar 25, 2019 Imagine smart materials that can morph from being stiff as wood to as soft as a sponge - and also change shape. Rutgers University-New Brunswick engineers have created flexible, lightweight ma ... more |
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 San Diego CA (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
Cubic Corporation reports its Cubic Mission Solutions (CMS) business division has been awarded a contract by The Boeing Company to supply its Wideband Satellite Communications (SATCOM) modem system and Line-of-Sight (LOS) Common Data Link (CDL) system for the MQ-25 unmanned aerial refueling program.
"Our resilient, wideband communication solution will enable the MQ-25 to conduct its missio ... more |
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 Tomsk, Russia (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
Scientists from TPU, Germany, and the United States have found a new way to functionalize a dielectric, otherwise known as 'white graphene', i.e. hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), without destroying it or changing its properties. Thanks to the new method, the researchers synthesized a 'polymer nano carpet' with strong covalent bond on the samples.
Prof Raul Rodriguez from the TPU Research Sch ... more |
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 Sendai, Japan (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
A research group from Tohoku University has developed spintronics devices which are promising for future energy-efficient and adoptive computing systems, as they behave like neurons and synapses in the human brain.
Today's information society is built on digital computers that have evolved drastically for half a century and are capable of executing complicated tasks reliably. The human bra ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) April 24, 2019 
Japanese authorities on Wednesday threatened to close down nuclear reactors that do not conform to strict anti-terror measures introduced after the 2011 Fukushima tsunami and nuclear disaster.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) introduced tougher new rules in 2013 requiring utilities to be able to maintain nuclear reaction cooling facilities by remote control if necessary.
The regula ... more |
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 Colombo (AFP) April 25, 2019 
Sri Lanka deployed thousands of additional troops countrywide overnight to help police hunt for suspects in the Easter Sunday suicide blasts that killed nearly 360 people, a spokesman said Thursday.
Brigadier Sumith Atapattu said the army increased its deployment by 1,300 to 6,300, with the navy and airforce also deploying 2,000 more personnel.
"We are armed with powers to search, seize, ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) April 23, 2019 
US authorities on Tuesday charged a Chinese engineer and his partner with "economic espionage" for allegedly stealing technology from General Electric, the Justice Department said.
It was a "textbook example of the Chinese government's strategy to rob American companies of their intellectual property," John Demers, head of the Justice Department's National Security Division, said in a statem ... more |
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
Artificial intelligence (AI), a branch of computer science that is transforming scientific inquiry and industry, could now speed the development of safe, clean and virtually limitless fusion energy for generating electricity.
A major step in this direction is under way at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University, where a team ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 24, 2019 
Beijing plans to send a manned mission to the moon and to build a research station there within the next decade, state media reported Wednesday, citing a top space official.
China aims to achieve space superpower status and took a major step towards that goal when it became the first nation to land a rover on the far side of the moon in January.
It now plans to build a scientific researc ... more |
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 Toyohashi, Japan (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
A research team in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology has developed new concept of fire extinguisher optimized for space-use; named Vacuum Extinguish Method (VEM).
VEM is based on the completely "reverse" operation of widely-used fire extinguisher, namely, spraying extinguisher agent(s) into the firing point. VEM is sucking the flame as well as c ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Apr 26, 2019 
The European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia's Roscosmos should not consider postponing the launch of the ExoMars mission as its rescheduling will lead to the loss of support from European member countries, Director-General Jan Woerner told Sputnik.
"I don't accept a discussion about rescheduling because we already postponed the launch for two years, from 2018 to 2020, and I believe industry ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) April 25, 2019 
NASA and SpaceX remained tight-lipped Thursday about what caused a mysterious but apparently serious incident last weekend during engine tests on the Crew Dragon capsule designed to carry US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) later this year.
SpaceX said that an "anomaly" had occurred during Saturday's ground tests at Cape Canaveral in Florida.
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 Hanoi (AFP) April 20, 2019 
The US launched on Saturday a $183 million clean-up at a former Vietnam storage site for Agent Orange, a toxic defoliant used in their bitter war which years later is still blamed for severe birth defects, cancers and disabilities.
Located outside Ho Chi Minh City, Bien Hoa airbase - the latest site scheduled for rehabilitation after Danang airbase's clean-up last year - was one of the mai ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) April 22, 2019  Tesla on Monday unveiled computer hardware for "full self-driving" capabilities as part of its strategy to bring autonomous cars to the mainstream.
At an investor presentation, the electric carmaker revealed technical details of a new chip and computer being installed in all its vehicles to advance its goals for autonomous driving.
Tesla already enables partial autonomy for its cars, but ... more |
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 Houghton, MI (SPX) Apr 17, 2019 
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are promising for quantum computing and future electronics. Now, researchers can convert metallic gold into semiconductor and customize the material atom-by-atom on boron nitride nanotubes.
Gold is a conductive material already widely used as interconnects in electronic devices. As electronics have gotten smaller and more powerful, the semiconducting mat ... more |
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Tomsk, Russia (SPX) Apr 23, 2019
Scientists from TPU, Germany, and the United States have found a new way to functionalize a dielectric, otherwise known as 'white graphene', i.e. hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), without destroying it or changing its properties. Thanks to the new method, the researchers synthesized a 'polymer nano carpet' with strong covalent bond on the samples.
Prof Raul Rodriguez from the TPU Research Sch ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 19, 2019 
The study of an ancient microbrewery in Peru and its supply of a sour beer has provided scientists new insights into the stability of the Wari empire.
For several years, researchers have been studying the remains of a brewing site at Cerro Baúl, an ancient city in southern Peru and the political center of the Wari empire, which lasted from 600 to 1100 AD - a long time for an ancient d ... more |
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