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05/07/12 — Challenged to design a background for a small rover controlled from space, students in Germany have delivered a futuristic cityscape. The cool space art will be seen by astronauts in orbit via the rover’s camera eye as they remotely control their avatar later this year. The ultimate goal is for…
05/04/12 — The Atlantic—Successful and failed transformations suggests watching four critical factors: Make it easier for people to do what they are trying to get done. While the iPad feels like an overnight success, its roots trace back to the Newton Personal Digital Assistant Apple introduced in the 1990s. The Newton was…
05/01/12 — First, this is not a robotic spider, it’s a non-autonomous robotic arm pre-programmed to weave a structure out of its own surroundings. Down the road, the researchers plan to make the robotic arm autonomous so it can sense where objects are and build its own structure to fit the surroundings.…
04/30/12 — Chemical & Engineering News—Whether building robots that move like insects or fish, or designing medical implants with moving parts, researchers look for new materials that respond to electricity but are flexible and soft. To meet that need, Chinese scientists have developed graphene-based actuators that convert electricity into motion. In robots,…
04/13/12 — Computer vision works much better than it once did, and that could enable a diverse range of machines to see and understand their environments. Such machines could be useful in everything from military scouting to self-driving cars. That’s why the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, is doing research…
04/10/12 — MIT is leading an ambitious new project to reinvent how robots are designed and produced. Funded by a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the project will aim to develop a desktop technology that would make it possible for the average person to design, customize and print…
04/06/12 — BlueBotics SA - Lausanne, Switzerland—A result of more than 10 years of development within BlueBotics, ANT is a navigation system dedicated to mobile robotic platform and to AGVs (or automated guided vehicles). In its full version, ANT navigation, allows localizing, driving, avoiding obstacles and handling the missions of an AGV.…
03/30/12 — Using the Sim Reckless Racing 2 and a Sony Xperia smartphone, Dr. James Brighton, a remote control engineer at UK’s Cranfield University has rigged a pair of MG F Roadsters to race around a dirt track, connecting the game’s smartphone controls to actual cars. This project culminated as a result…
03/26/12 — Minneapolis-based Stratasys (Nasdaq: SSYS) and Optomec Inc., located in Albuquerque, announced that the companies have successfully completed a joint development project that merges 3D printing and printed electronics to create the world's first fully printed hybrid structure. The first project, the development of a "smart wing" for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)…
03/15/12 — University of Utah engineers have designed a new kind of video game controller that not only vibrates like existing devices, but pulls and stretches the thumb tips in different directions to simulate the tug of a fishing line, the recoil of a gun or the feeling of ocean waves.…
03/09/12 — In recent years, scientists have begun to harness DNA’s powerful molecular machinery to build artificial structures at the nanoscale using the natural ability of pairs of DNA molecules to assemble into complex structures. Such “DNA origami,” first developed at the California Institute of Technology, could provide a means of…
03/09/12 — IBM scientists reported this week on a prototype optical chipset, dubbed “Holey Optochip”, that is the first parallel optical transceiver to transfer one trillion bits – one terabit – of information per second, the equivalent of downloading 500 high definition movies. The report will be presented at the Optical Fiber…
03/01/12 — Orders for motion control products jumped 17.7% in 2011, according to new statistics released by the Motion Control Association (MCA), the industry’s global trade group. Gains also occurred in the fourth quarter, rising 4% over the same period in 2010. “2011 results were the best we’ve seen since MCA…
02/28/12 — NASA has awarded Astrobotic Technology Inc. an additional task in its $10 million Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) contract under which NASA buys information about the company's commercial robotic expeditions to the Moon. The $100,000 task order brings total funding under the ILDD contract thus far to $610,000. Astrobotic…
02/27/12 — NASA plans to demonstrate a new fuel cell that will allow rovers on extraterrestrial surfaces to go farther and last longer. The demonstration will take palce at the agency’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland on Feb. 29 at 11 a.m. The new type of fuel cell will extend the…
02/20/12 — Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have developed a robotic device made from DNA that could potentially seek out specific cell targets within a complex mixture of cell types and deliver important molecular instructions, such as telling cancer cells to self-destruct. Inspired by…
02/14/12 — Many people need some extra strength to grasp objects in the course of their day. Even holding simple objects such as a coffee pot or a drill can pose difficulties due to factors that range from age and repetitive strain injuries to medical conditions such as a stroke or…
01/27/12 — New ocean exploring devices are being designed and developed in the laboratory of Professor Deirdre Meldrum, ASU Senior Scientist and Director of the Center for Biosignatures Discovery Automation at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute. Much of Meldrum’s genomic research focuses on deep ocean environments and leverages her extensive technology…
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