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Sandtrapped Rover Makes a Big DiscoverySpirit surveys its own predicament. The bright soil pictured left is loose, fluffy material churned by the rover's left-front wheel as Spirit, driving backwards, broke through a darker, crusty surface. At right is the least-embedded of the rover's six wheels. "Spirit had to get stuck to make ...
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LaserMotive's Robot Is The First Ever To Win NASA's $900,000 Space Elevator Prize - Space Elevator - GizmodoLaserMotive's Robot Is The First Ever To Win NASA's $900,000 Space Elevator Prize LaserMotive's photovoltaic-powered machine became the first in the 3-year history of NASA's space elevator contest to climb a 2,953-foot-long ribbon, securing a prize of $900,000. However, they fell short of ...
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The Future of Artificial Intelligence - NYTimes.comThe Coming Superbrain Mountain View, Calif. — It’s summertime and the Terminator is back. A sci-fi movie thrill ride, “Terminator Salvation” comes complete with a malevolent artificial intelligence dubbed Skynet, a military R.&D. project that gained self-awareness and concluded that humans ...
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The Big Picture - 32 Robot imagesRobotic systems continue to evolve, slowly penetrating many areas of our lives, from manufacturing, medicine and remote exploration to entertainment, security and personal assistance. Developers in Japan are currently building robots to assist the elderly, while NASA develops the next generation ...
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robots.net - Using Astrobotics to Prepare a Lunar OutpostUsing Astrobotics to Prepare a Lunar Outpost According to a CMU news release , the CMU Robotics Institute has partnered with Astrobotic Technology, Inc . to prepare a NASA-sponsored study describing a lunar outpost constructed by robots. Small moon robots, described as the size of riding ...
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NASA's Robotic Hillary, A Mountain-climbing Robot - Gizmo WatchIt’s coming of age in robotic science, and next from NASA’s backyard is another all terrain robotic rover, but if it’s from NASA, we can expect novelty there. Yes, Axel (as they call the lately built and tested a robot), developed in California Institute of Technology is an autonomous robotic ...
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Spirit's Low on Mars | Wired Science from Wired.com1800 Martian days after it landed on the planet, the Mars Spirit Rover is acting strangely. The unexpected bad behavior isn't strange like HAL, but it could be strange like
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Phoenix Mars Lander: Risky Business on the Red Planet"...ing the Phoenix Mars Lander down and dirty on the red planet is an engineering saga stretching out over a decade. Its mission "raises from the ashes" a spacecraft and instruments from two prior tries to reach the red planet: the Mars Polar Lander that failed to phone home in 1999 and a 2001 ...
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