News tagged with wheel rotation
Aircraft of the future could capture and re-use some of their own
Tomorrow's aircraft could contribute to their power needs by harnessing energy from the wheel rotation of their landing gear to generate electricity.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Feb 23, 2012 |
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Spirit Rover Switches to Backward Drives
(PhysOrg.com) -- The rover team has begun driving Spirit backward as next technique for attempting to extricate the rover from the sand trap where it is embedded. The first two backward drives produced about ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 22, 2010 |
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Spirit Rover: Just a Few More Approaches to Try for Extrication
(PhysOrg.com) -- The list of remaining maneuvers being considered for extricating Spirit is becoming shorter.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 14, 2010 |
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Planned Rover Test to Run a Week or More
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars rover team members are planning a long-duration experiment with the test rover at JPL beginning next week. This test will check whether favorable motion seen in earlier tests can be sustained ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 14, 2009 |
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Whirr, click, hum: Robots go at it in 2.007 finale
MIT’s Johnson Athletic Center took on the aura of an old-fashioned county fair on Thursday night, complete with popcorn, balloons, jugglers, cotton candy and pitchmen wearing brightly colored jackets and bowties. But ...
May 14, 2012 |
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Engineer thinks we could build a real starship enterprise in 20 years
In Star Trek lore, the first Starship Enterprise will be built by the year 2245. But today, an engineer has proposed — and outlined in meticulous detail – building a full-sized, ion-powered version ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 14, 2012 |
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Mars Rover starts its 9th year
Eight years after landing on Mars for what was planned as a three-month mission, NASA's enduring Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is working on what essentially became a new mission five months ago.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 03, 2012 |
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Athletic frogs have faster-changing genomes
Physically fit frogs have faster-changing genomes, says a new study of poison frogs from Central and South America.
Apr 12, 2012 |
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Listening to the radio even with an electric drive
To enable radio reception in electric vehicles, manufacturers must install filters and insulate cables, since electrical signals will otherwise interfere with music and speech transmissions. Now, using new ...
Apr 02, 2012 |
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Kyoto prof rolls out omnidirectional wheelchair
(PhysOrg.com) -- A mechanical engineering professor has taken the wraps off his vehicle that is designed to become a next-generation wheelchair. As its formal name suggests, this is the Personal Mobile Vehicle, ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Mar 27, 2012 |
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A new direction for game controllers: Prototypes tug at thumb tips to enhance video gaming
University of Utah engineers designed a new kind of video game controller that not only vibrates like existing devices, but pulls and stretches the thumb tips in different directions to simulate the tug of ...
Mar 05, 2012 |
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New system allows robots to continuously map their environment
Robots could one day navigate through constantly changing surroundings with virtually no input from humans, thanks to a system that allows them to build and continuously update a three-dimensional map of their ...
Feb 16, 2012 |
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Durable NASA rover beginning ninth year of Mars work
(PhysOrg.com) -- Eight years after landing on Mars for what was planned as a three-month mission, NASA's enduring Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is working on what essentially became a new mission five ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 25, 2012 |
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'Greeley Haven' is winter workplace for Mars rover
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity will spend the next several months at a site informally named "Greeley Haven." The name is a tribute to planetary geologist Ronald Greeley (1939-2011), ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 06, 2012 |
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