MIT’s New Underwater Robot Can Hover in Place
Odyssey IV, developed by MIT Sea Grant College Program’s Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Laboratory, offers novel hovering capabilities, making it a a boon for oil explorers, archaeologists and more.
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Lunar Prospecting Robot To Be Field Tested on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea
NASA’s Scarab rover, developed by Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute, is designed to traverse the lunar surface taking core samples for use in NASA’s Regolith and Environment Science and Oxygen and Lunar Volatile Extraction (RESOLVE) experiment. The robot, which weighs approximately 880 pounds, can operate on just 100 watts of power.
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GTRI Wins Contract to Develop Technology Roadmap for Unmanned and Autonomous Systems
A one-year $430,000 award, funded through the U.S. Army at White Sands Missile Range, has been awarded to Georgia Tech Research Institute for the development of a test and evaluation roadmap for unmanned and autonomous systems. The roadmap will address all five major unmanned and autonomous systems domains, including airborne systems, ground based systems and underwater systems, as well as sea surface and space based systems.
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SRI International Breaks Ground on St. Petersburg Facility
A $20 million grant from the State of Florida’s Innovation Incentive Program fund attracts SRI International a nonprofit, independent research and technology development organization. The new research center will develop cutting-edge technology in such areas as marine science, port security, energy, and the environment.
In This Issue:
- VIA Technologies to Distribute Complimentary Nano-ITX Boards at Development 2008
- Evolution Robotics Raises $13.88 Million from CMEA Ventures, Vodafone, Idealab and Quercus Trust
- SRI International Breaks Ground on St. Petersburg Facility
- Adept Technology Announces Packaging Management Software System
- MobileRanger Outdoors Stereo Vision Brings Autonomous Robotics Closer to Reality
- NASA Ames Collaborates to Develop Robotic Lunar Lander
- MIT's New Underwater Robot Can Hover in Place
- WarBots: Latest in Military Strategy
