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  NASA Tests Lunar Robots And Spacesuits On Earthen Moonscape

  June 14, 2008 — Conditions on the moon will be harsher, but prototype NASA robotic vehicles braved sand storms and unprecedented temperature swings this month on sand dunes near Moses Lake, Wash., to prepare for ... > full story
• Robotics Research
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  Students Make Hybrid Racing Car, Free-Kicking Robot

  June 14, 2008 — It is built in sparkling white and with a striking similarity to a real Formula 1 racer, but just a little bit smaller. Students of mechanical engineering at the D-MAVT recently unveiled their ... > full story
• Space Missions
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  Phoenix Mars Lander Delivers Soil Sample To Microscope

  June 12, 2008 — NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander sprinkled a spoonful of Martian soil Wednesday onto the sample wheel of the spacecraft's robotic microscope station, images received early June 12 ... > full story
• Artificial Intelligence
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  Tests Check Out Rescue Robots' Life-Saving Vision

  June 12, 2008 — A new systematic way to evaluate the robot visual capability humans need to drive the device, search for victims and access general hazard conditions, has been ... > full story
• Space Missions
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  Phoenix Mars Lander Sifts For Samples, Continues Imaging Landing Site

  June 8, 2008 — On Sunday, Sol 14 of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission, mechanical shakers inside the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer will attempt to loosen clumped soils on the device's screens to allow material ... > full story
• Space Missions
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  Mars Lander Scoops First Soil Sample For Laboratory Analysis

  June 6, 2008 — NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander made its first dig into Martian soil for science studies and is poised to deliver the scoopful to a laboratory instrument on the lander deck. The instrument will bake and ... > full story
• Software
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  Computer Science
   

  Hands On Learning For The Visually Impaired

  June 6, 2008 — European researchers have made it easy for software developers to build educational tools that let pupils collaborate to see, hear -- and now also feel -- what is on the computer screen. When you ... > full story
• Robotics
  Engineering
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  Vehicles
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  School Of Robofish Communicate With Each Other In Underwater Robot Teams

  June 6, 2008 — Most ocean robots have to talk to scientists or satellites to share information. A new school of robotic fish communicate directly, allowing them to work cooperatively without coming to the ... > full story
• Space Missions
  NASA
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  Mars
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  Space Probes
   
  

  Phoenix Mars Lander Ready To Gather Samples

  June 4, 2008 — Two practice rounds of digging and dumping the clumpy soil at the Martian arctic site this week gave scientists and engineers gathered at the University of Arizona confidence to begin using Phoenix's ... > full story
• Robotics
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  Mobile Robotic Arm Taught To Manipulate Objects Such As Scissors And Shears

  June 3, 2008 — Movies portray robots that can move through the world as easily as humans, and use their hands to operate everything from dishwashers to computers with ease. But in reality, the creation of robots ... > full story

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