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Debian powers robotic sub to victory
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2009-10-12 19:06:51
A team of students at Cornell University has won a competition for autonomous underwater vehicles, using a robotic submarine running Debian GNU/Linux.
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Flying microbots from Canada
Written By: Jake Widman
Section: Technology feature

Category: Server

2009-04-10 14:12:23
Engineering researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, have come up with a tiny flying robot capable of manipulating tiny objects.


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Three-month Martian journey turns into five years
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Space

2009-03-26 08:34:51
Two rovers landed on Mars in January 2004 for what was expected by NASA to be a three-month tour of the Martian landscape. It’s now 2009, five years later, and Spirit and Opportunity just keep going and going and going. We know eventually their journey will end, but not just yet!


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Elderly Spirit rover may have dementia on Mars
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Space

2009-02-01 11:10:40
Beginning on January 24, 2009, NASA scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory became worried when the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Spirit began having problems recording its Martian activities onto its memory as it and its sister rover Opportunity continue to explore the planet's surface.


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Five-year anniversary of Opportunity knocking on Martian door
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Space

2009-01-21 07:58:48
On January 25, 2004, the Mars Exploration Rover B, popularly known as Opportunity, landed successfully on the planet Mars. It continues to provide us valuable data on the Red Planet, now five years later.

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Australians build tiny motor for fantastic voyages inside humans
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Biology

2009-01-20 17:42:31
Engineers from Monash University (Victoria, Australia) have built a miniature mechanical motor for a microbot that could someday cruise through miniscule human arteries of the brain, heart, and eyes.



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WALL-E and NASA are looking for Right Name for new Mars Rover
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Space

2008-11-18 14:58:18
NASA has announced that it is looking for a name to call its new Mars rover, which should be launched toward Mars in 2009. The Walt Disney robot WALL-E is teaming up with NASA in this naming contest for U.S. students ranging in ages from five to 18 years old.


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Leather clad robots will only pogo to punk rock
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Science

Category: Biology

2008-07-05 19:58:13
A computational neuroscientist and a punk performance artist have built three robots which, courtesy of neural networking and some adaptive resonance theory, have learned to love the musical genre and show their appreciation through the magic of dance...


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Linux powered robot can play clarinet
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news

Category: Open Source

2008-06-20 09:58:28
The University of New South Wales, in conjunction with NICTA, has won first place in an international technology competition. With a Linux powered robot that can play the clarinet. The team beat off stiff competition from a Dutch guitar playing robot and Finnish robot pianist to win the Artemis Orchestra competition.



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I, Love Robot
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-02-15 00:34:46
No, it’s not an x-rated sequel to Isaac Asimov’s classic “I, Robot” series, but instead an article about David Levy’s new book, ‘Love and Sex with Robots’.


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GRAIL: New NASA robotic mission to explore inside of Moon
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Space

2008-01-16 10:31:58
The NASA Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, consisting to twin orbiting spacecraft, will be launched in 2011 to explore the interior structure of the Moon.       
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The robots are coming - to a store near you!
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Technology Lifestyle

Category: New Products

2007-12-30 14:19:14
GPS, giant plasma TVs and other electronic entertainment devices have been selling like hot cakes this Christmas, but in a few years time personal robots could be all the rage.
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Google Talkabout speaks to me with new chat bots
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles

Category: IT blog

2007-12-19 23:27:50
Remember those sci-fi movies and books where humans and interplanetary aliens interact and speak to each other using electronic helmet translating devices? If not, then maybe you're too young but anyway Google has taken the first step towards making on the fly real-time dual-language conversations a reality.


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Where oh where is the comet?
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Space

2007-12-17 07:52:35
That’s what they said when NASA scientists decided to send their Deep Impact spacecraft to Comet 85P/Boethin. When they looked again for the comet, it was no where to be found. So, Deep Impact was re-direced to Comet Hartley 2.     
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Mars rover Spirit makes important “life” find, now scrambling for its own life
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Space

2007-12-11 11:57:40
NASA scientists report that Mars Exploration Rover Spirit found ground on Mars earlier in 2007 that shows evidence of possible past microbial life. However, now, Spirit only has until Christmas to find a sunny spot to recharge its batteries in preparation for Martian winter.         
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Flirty bot passes for human
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Security

2007-12-10 19:41:15
New software designed to conduct flirtatious conversations is good enough to fool people into thinking they are chatting with a human, a security company has warned.


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UFOs flying around Saturn have been identified
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Space

2007-12-09 10:47:48
Scientists have finally explained unusual looking unidentified-flying-saucer-shaped objects within the rings of the planet Saturn. Luckily, the objects don't contain little green men.              
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Martian sand pile almost overtakes NASA Spirit rover
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Space

2007-12-05 18:39:12
Over the past five months, the Mars Exploration Rover has been crossing the floor of Gusevy Crater, ascending the Columbia Hills, and moving around Home Plate. However, around the middle of November 2007, it got stuck in a pile of sand at the bottom of a depression.     


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Moon looks picture-perfect to Chinese
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Space

2007-11-26 09:19:13
The first Chinese image of the Moon's surface from its unmanned lunar orbiting Chang’e 1 spacecraft was revealed Monday, November 26, 2007.      
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Amateur astronomers wanted to take Venus pics
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Space

2007-11-25 09:45:34
Scientists with the Venus Express mission are looking for images of the planet Venus taken by amateur and professional astronomers. Can you help?                  
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