The robotic arm on NASA's Mars 2020 rover does not have deltoids, triceps or biceps, but it can still curl heavy weights with the best. In this time-lapse video, taken July 19, 2019, in the clean room of the Spacecraft Assembly ...
Space Exploration
Jul 29, 2019
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The launch period for NASA's Mars 2020 rover opens exactly one year from today, July 17, 2020, and extends through Aug. 5, 2020. The mission will launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida and land at Mars' Jezero ...
Space Exploration
Jul 18, 2019
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The InSight lander has been on Mars for 213 Sols on its mission to understand the interior of the red planet. It's armed with a seismometer, a temperature and wind sensor, and other instruments. But it's primary instrument, ...
Space Exploration
Jul 5, 2019
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Behold the "mole": The heat-sensing spike that NASA's InSight lander deployed on the Martian surface is now visible. Last week, the spacecraft's robotic arm successfully removed the support structure of the mole, which has ...
Space Exploration
Jul 1, 2019
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When InSight landed on Mars on Nov. 26th, 2018, it deployed a parachute to slow its descent through the thin Martian atmosphere. As it approached the surface, it fired its retro rocket to slow it even more, and then gently ...
Space Exploration
Jun 17, 2019
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Billed as "one of the most exciting artists of our time", Ai-Da differs from generations of past masters in one inescapable way: she is a robot.
Robotics
Jun 5, 2019
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Scientists and engineers have a new plan for getting NASA InSight's heat probe, also known as the "mole," digging again on Mars. Part of an instrument called the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3), the mole is ...
Space Exploration
Jun 5, 2019
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How many times in the past week do you think your life was affected by a robot?
Robotics
May 6, 2019
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A private cargo ship brought the makings of an Easter feast to the International Space Station on Friday, along with mice and little flying robots.
Space Exploration
Apr 19, 2019
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Southwest Research Institute and ROS-Industrial developed a solution that enables industrial robots to scan and manipulate metallic objects that had previously been too "shiny" for machine vision to process.
Robotics
Apr 8, 2019
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