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Exploration
Robotics & A.I.
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| Can a Robot Draw a Map? |
| Topic: Robotics & A.I. |
02/04/08 |
| Scientists will need detailed geologic maps of Mars to guide their search for life there. Typically such maps are produced through painstaking human field work. A group of scientists from Carnegie Mellon University wants to know whether a robot could do the job instead. |
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| The Return of the Blob … As a Robot |
| Topic: Robotics & A.I. |
01/14/08 |
| Most robots have legs, wheels, or tank-like treads. But Virgina Tech roboticist Dennis Hong is building one that uses “whole-skin locomotion” to move like an amoeba, enabling it to squeeze more easily into the some of the tight other-worldly spaces where extraterrestrial life might be hiding. |
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| Build Your Own Borg: Sort of |
| Topic: Robotics & A.I. |
12/02/04 |
| The dream of many planetary geologists is to have a robot on another world making decisions about where it wants to go and what it wants to look closer at. One step towards that dream is a cybernetics experiment venturing into the Spanish cliffs. |
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| Follow the Sun |
| Topic: Robotics & A.I. |
07/28/03 |
| This is the second in a series of articles on a research project, Life in the Atacama, that recently began in Chile's Atacama desert. This article will focus on the innovative Hyperion rover that is being used in the project, a rover designed to travel for great distances, collecting scientific samples along the way. |
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| Matrix |
| Topic: Robotics & A.I. |
07/02/03 |
| Estimating the frequency for communicating with an extrasolar civilization is a multi-dimensional challenge. The answer, according to two scientists at the Hungarian Astronomical Association, is less like an equation, and more like a matrix. |
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| Martian Rocks, Robot Retrieves |
| Topic: Robotics & A.I. |
11/07/02 |
| Remarkably, on average, one Martian meteorite lands on Earth each month. But finding these scientific treasures is not a job for a human, at least according to the Nomad robot - this week's entry in the Extreme Explorers Hall of Fame. |
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