Only a decade ago, musically-aware humanoids, or robots, equipped to play popular songs on the piano and dance to audio beats could have come to life only in a science fiction film, but for Drexel University graduate student ...
Robotics
Mar 17, 2011
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The first humanoid robot ever launched into space is finally free. Astronauts at the International Space Station unpacked Robonaut on Tuesday, 2 1/2 weeks after its arrival via shuttle Discovery. NASA broadcast the humorous ...
Space Exploration
Mar 16, 2011
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The US space program's oldest and most traveled shuttle, Discovery, was on track to make its final Earth landing Wednesday after a near-perfect last mission to the space station.
Space Exploration
Mar 9, 2011
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The oldest and most traveled space shuttle, Discovery, is headed for its last landing on Earth Wednesday before becoming the first of three to retire in a US museum.
Space Exploration
Mar 9, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The uncanny valley is getting smaller every day. For those of you not familiar with that concept, the uncanny valley is a term, first coined by researchers in Japan, that explains the innate human ability ...
Six US astronauts are wrapping their mission at the International Space Station on Sunday before strapping themselves back into the shuttle Discovery, one day before setting back toward Earth, NASA said.
Space Exploration
Mar 6, 2011
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(AP) -- The space shuttle and space station crews will soon say goodbye.
Space Exploration
Mar 6, 2011
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The 220-mile-high unveiling of R2, the first humanoid robot in space, is being moved up at the urging of the president of the United States.
Space Exploration
Mar 4, 2011
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(AP) -- The 12 astronauts on the orbiting shuttle-station complex had to explain to a higher authority Thursday why they hadn't yet unpacked R2, the first humanoid robot in space.
Space Exploration
Mar 3, 2011
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Many visitors walking around CeBIT, the world's biggest high-tech fair, have found themselves bumping into "Jazz", a "telepresence" robot also ambling around the vast expo.
Robotics
Mar 2, 2011
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