Russia to Send First Ever Robot-Cosmonaut to ISS
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| Russia to Send First Ever Robot-Cosmonaut to ISS Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 18, 2015 - A team of experts at the Russian Academy of Sciences' Space Research Institute are working on the prototype of a robot cosmonaut to ... | |||||||
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| August 19, 2015 |
 Controlling the uncontrollable Boston MA (SPX) Aug 18, 2015 - Instability in engineering is generally not a good thing. If you're building a skyscraper, minor instabilities could bring the whole structure crashing down in a fraction of a second. But what if a quick change in shape is exactly what you want? Soft machines and robots are becoming more and more functional, capable of moving, jumping, gripping an object, and even changing color. The eleme ... more |  |
| Russia to Send First Ever Robot-Cosmonaut to ISS Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 18, 2015 - A team of experts at the Russian Academy of Sciences' Space Research Institute are working on the prototype of a robot cosmonaut to help ISS crews during spacewalks. Russia is a world leader where it comes to designing all kinds of space innovations. Including the Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) instrument mounted on the Mars Science Laboratory's Curiosity rover. It is a pulsed seal ... more |  |
 Philae silver lining: robot lab shielded from sun Paris (AFP) Aug 12, 2015 - When a comet whizzes past the Sun on Thursday it won't mean certain high-temperature death for a European robot lab riding on the chunk of ice and dust. Instead, the rough, off-target landing by the Philae lander - deposited on the comet's surface last November by the Rosetta spacecraft - has turned out to have a silver lining. "It had some disadvantages. We had to reschedule everythin ... more |  |
| MIT engineers build, test bartending robots that work together Boston (UPI) Aug 12, 2015 - Engineers at MIT have designed a team of robots capable of working together to pour and deliver beers to thirsty humans. Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have essentially mechanized an entire bar waitstaff. One robot cracks open beers, while two others take orders from patrons and deliver the suds. A special PR2 robot served as ... more |  |
 Mars Rovers and the Last Moonwalker to Invade Poland in September Podzamcze, Poland (SPX) Aug 10, 2015 - Poland will once again host the biggest Mars rover competition in Europe. This year, from Sept. 5 to 6, the second edition of the European Rover Challenge (ERC) is expected to get even more publicity as Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, a member of the Apollo 17 crew and the last man to walk on the Moon will be a special guest of the event. ERC will also give the participants a unique opportunity to talk ... more |  |
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| Giving robots a more nimble grasp Boston MA (SPX) Aug 05, 2015 - Most robots on a factory floor are fairly ham-handed: Equipped with large pincers or claws, they are designed to perform simple maneuvers, such as grabbing an object, and placing it somewhere else in an assembly line. More complex movements, such as adjusting the grasp on an object, are still out of reach for many industrial robots. Engineers at MIT have now hit upon a way to impart more d ... more |  |
| Comet 67P, robot lab Philae's alien host, nears Sun Paris (AFP) Aug 10, 2015 - A comet streaking through space with a European robot lab riding piggyback will skirt the Sun this week, setting another landmark in an extraordinary quest to unravel the origins of life on Earth. Scientists hope the heat of perihelion - when the comet comes closest to the Sun in its orbit - will cause the enigmatic traveller to shed more of its icy crust. If so, it could spew out pris ... more |  |
| IBM acquires medical imaging firm to help Watson 'see' San Francisco (AFP) Aug 6, 2015 - IBM said Thursday it was boosting the capacity of its Watson supercomputer, acquiring the medical imaging group Merge Healthcare for $1 billon. The new group will be integrated into IBM's Watson Health platform, which sifts through vast amounts of research and medical data to help health professionals improve treatment. "The planned acquisition bolsters IBM's strategy to add rich image a ... more |  |
 Sandcastles inspire new nanoparticle binding technique Raleigh NC (SPX) Aug 07, 2015 - If you want to form very flexible chains of nanoparticles in liquid in order to build tiny robots with flexible joints or make magnetically self-healing gels, you need to revert to childhood and think about sandcastles. In a paper published this week in Nature Materials, researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill show that magnetic nan ... more |  |
| Object recognition for robots Boston MA (SPX) Aug 05, 2015 - John Leonard's group in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering specializes in SLAM, or simultaneous localization and mapping, the technique whereby mobile autonomous robots map their environments and determine their locations. Last week, at the Robotics Science and Systems conference, members of Leonard's group presented a new paper demonstrating how SLAM can be used to improve objec ... more |  |
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 Robotic maker system will build biggest composite rocket parts ever made Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 05, 2015 - A titan now resides at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This titan is no Greek god, but one of the largest composites manufacturing robots created in America, and it will help NASA build the biggest, lightweight composite parts ever made for space vehicles. "Marshall has been investing in composites for a long time," said Preston Jones, deputy director of Marshal ... more |  |
| Robotic insect mimics Nature's extreme moves Boston MA (SPX) Aug 05, 2015 - The concept of walking on water might sound supernatural, but in fact it is a quite natural phenomenon. Many small living creatures leverage water's surface tension to maneuver themselves around. One of the most complex maneuvers, jumping on water, is achieved by a species of semi-aquatic insects called water striders that not only skim along water's surface but also generate enough upward thrus ... more |  |
| Brain-controlled prosthesis nearly as good as one-finger typing Stanford CA (SPX) Aug 04, 2015 - When we type or perform other precise tasks, our brains and muscles usually work together effortlessly. But when a neurological disease or spinal cord injury severs the connection between the brain and limbs, once-easy motions become difficult or impossible. In recent years researchers have sought to give people suffering from injury or disease some restored motor function by developing thought- ... more |  |
| Bio-inspired robots jump on water Washington DC (SPX) Aug 01, 2015 - By studying how water striders jump on water, Je-Sung Koh and colleagues have created a robot that can successfully launch itself from the surface of water. As the team watched the water strider jump on water surfaces using high-speed cameras, they noticed that the long legs accelerate gradually, so that the water surface doesn't retreat too quickly and lose contact with the legs. Us ... more |  |
 Boxfish shell inspires new materials for body armor and flexible electronics San Diego CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2015 - The boxfish's unique armor draws its strength from hexagon-shaped scales and the connections between them, engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have found. They describe their findings and the carapace of the boxfish (Lactoria cornuta) in the journal Acta Materialia. Engineers also describe how the structure of the boxfish could serve as inspiration for body armor, robots and ev ... more |  |
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 Could 'Windbots' Someday Explore the Skies of Jupiter? Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 24, 2015 - Among designers of robotic probes to explore the planets, there is certainly no shortage of clever ideas. There are concepts for robots that are propelled by waves in the sea. There are ideas for tumbleweed bots driven by wind, rolling across Antarctica or Mars. Recently a team of engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, wondered if a probe could be buoyant in the c ... more |  |
| Tiny mechanical wrist gives new dexterity to needlescopic surgery Nashville TN (SPX) Jul 28, 2015 - With the flick of a tiny mechanical wrist, a team of engineers and doctors at Vanderbilt University's Medical Engineering and Discovery Laboratory hope to give needlescopic surgery a whole new degree of dexterity. Needlescopic surgery, which uses surgical instruments shrunk to the diameter of a sewing needle, is the ultimate form of minimally invasive surgery. The needle-sized incisions it ... more |  |
| The growing fear of killer robot armies Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 29, 2015 - Years of artificial intelligence (AI) gone wrong prompted more than a thousand scholars and public figures - including theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak - to sign an open letter, cautioning that the autonomous weapons race is "a bad idea" and presents a major threat to humanity. The letter, presented Monday at the Internation ... more |  |
| No sci-fi joke: 'killer robots' strike fear into tech leaders Buenos Aires (AFP) July 28, 2015 - It sounds like a science-fiction nightmare. But "killer robots" have the likes of British scientist Stephen Hawking and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak fretting, and warning they could fuel ethnic cleansing and an arms race. Autonomous weapons, which use artificial intelligence to select targets without human intervention, have been described as "the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowd ... more |  |
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| Software program recognises sketches more accurately than a human London UK (SPX) Jul 22, 2015 - Known as Sketch-a-Net, the program is capable of correctly identifying the subject of sketches 74.9 per cent of the time compared to humans that only managed a success rate of 73.1 per cent. As sketching becomes more relevant with the increase in the use of touchscreens, the development could provide a foundation for new ways to interact with computers. Touchscreens could understand what y ... more |  |
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