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Robotics & A.I.
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| Getting a Feel for the Terrain |
| Topic: Robotics & A.I. |
06/28/12 |
| A team is developing a rover-based computer system that can identify geologically relevant elements in a camera scene. |
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| Cyborgs Needed for Escape from Earth |
| Topic: Robotics & A.I. |
09/16/10 |
| As the growing global population continues to increase the burden on the Earth´s natural resources, some historians and scientists think humans should prepare to colonize space. The problem is, we may have to alter human biology significantly to achieve that goal. |
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| A Cyborg Space Race |
| Topic: Robotics & A.I. |
04/05/10 |
| Who should explore space: robots or humans? Our ability to travel beyond Earth is hampered by the harsh conditions of space, but rather than let robots have all the fun, could cyborg technology allow humans to make greater strides into the final frontier? |
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| Avatars in Space |
| Topic: Robotics & A.I. |
03/15/10 |
| At this year's Oscars, there was a great deal of buzz surrounding the science fiction epic, Avatar. The movie focuses on human explorers virtually immersing themselves in the environment of a distant world through the eyes and body of an avatar. The movie may be science fiction, but the concepts behind avatars in space exploration are based in science fact. |
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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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