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Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new type of mobile robot that balances on a ball instead of legs or wheels. "Ballbot" is a self-contained, battery-operated, omnidirectional robot that balances dynamically on a single urethane-coated metal sphere. It weighs 95 pounds a...
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Self-replicating robots are no longer the stuff of science fiction.
Scientists at the Cornell University in Ithaca, New York have created small robots that can build copies of themselves.
Each robot consists of several 10-cm cubes which have identical machinery, electromagnets to attach a...
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Little larger than a thumbnail, the cubic insect-like robots or 'insbots' are technological marvels. Developed under the European Commission's Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) initiative of the IST programme as the project Leurre, the insbots are fitted with two motors, wheels, a recha...
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SmartNav robot
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When India sends its proposed moon mission in 2011, it will have a unique robot developed indigenously by student-engineers and their professors at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kanpur. The 'SmartNav' robot being developed for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will h...
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The UK government is to invest 108m euros (£73.2m) to give Britain a major share in building the robotic probe for Europe's next mission to Mars.
The European Space Agency (Esa) member states approved funding for the ExoMars mission at the agency's ministerial meeting in Berlin.
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The ill-fated Beagle 2 Mars probe should never have been given the go-ahead, says a powerful MPs' committee.
The much-hyped probe was "doomed from the start", the public accounts committee said while criticising the management of civil space activities.
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A NASA-funded robotic probe is to be tested under ice to evaluate the systems ability to operate in the kind of extreme conditions found on Jupiters moon Europa. The Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic Antarctic Explorer is a $2.3m project aimed at creating a vehicle designed to swi...
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A Pentagon-sponsored project to control flying insects remotely has sent ripples of excitement across the scientific pond. Part insect, part machine, the "cyborg beetle" has been tested successfully by its developers at the University of California, Berkeley. [url=http://news....
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Experimental roboticist Marty Vona wont be flying to the moon. But his National Science Foundation-funded work on a robotic rover could help astronauts explore the big rock in the sky on a lunar mission within the next decade. Vona, an assistant professor of computer and information science, coll...
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UBC engineering students unveil moon dust-shovelling robot before NASA competition A robot designed by UBC students will be shovelling moon dust at an international robotics competition next week, vying for a $500,000 prize and the opportunity to contribute to NASAs future space exploration p...
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MSU robot to dig "moon dirt" in national contest at Kennedy Space Centre A Montana State University robot that sometimes had a spooky mind of its own is at the Kennedy Space Centre to see if it can dig more moon dirt than any other student-built robot. In a May 27-28 competition sponsored by N...
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Robots of the future designed at new Bristol laboratory Electrical engineers, psychologists, surgeons and more work together creating robots of the future at the University of the West of England. There are small robots and big ones; flying robots and swarming robots; even whiskery robots. The...
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On November 17th, at San Francisco's St. Francis Yacht Club, Liquid Robotics launched four Wave Gliders on a record-setting journey across the Pacific Ocean - the longest distance ever attempted by an unmanned ocean vehicle. The purpose of this unprecedented Pacific crossing is to foster new sci...
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Robot competition in zero-gravity School teams from Europe and America have been commanding robots competing in the Spheres ZeroRobotics tournament in space. The arena: 400 km above Earth on the International Space Station. Student teams could send a single piece of instruction software to c...
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Robonaut 2: ISS Task Board Robonaut Shakes Hands Robonaut is a humanoid robotic development project conducted by the Dextrous Robotics Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Cent...
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