In a world first, Swinburne's Repairbot project has achieved a major milestone, using a robot to successfully 3-D print a replacement lug on an automotive headlamp assembly.
Robotics
Mar 6, 2019
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A robot arm has successfully picked up pebble-sized pieces of radioactive fuel at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant in a complex operation seen as key to clean-up efforts after the 2011 meltdown, officials said Thursday.
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 14, 2019
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NASA's first look at a tiny asteroid shows the space rock is more moist and studded with boulders than originally thought.
Space Exploration
Dec 11, 2018
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NASA's first-ever mission designed to visit an asteroid and return a sample of its dust back to Earth arrived Monday at its destination, Bennu, two years after launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Space Exploration
Dec 3, 2018
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A Halloween view inside one of the darker recesses of ESA's technical heart. Shaded to resemble the blackness of deep space, the GNC Rendezvous, Approach and Landing Simulator, or GRALS, is seen being used to test vision-based ...
Space Exploration
Oct 31, 2018
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The southern Dutch city of Eindhoven plans to unveil the world's first 3-D-printed housing complex next year, which its inventors believe could revolutionise the building industry by speeding up and customising construction.
Engineering
Jul 11, 2018
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An Earth science instrument built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and experiments investigating cellular biology and artificial intelligence, are among the research heading to the International ...
Space Exploration
Jul 2, 2018
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After almost 70 years of spaceflight, space debris has become a rather serious problem. This junk, which floats around in low Earth orbit (LEO), consists of the spent first rocket stages and non-functioning satellites and ...
Space Exploration
Jun 29, 2018
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SmokeBot is a robot developed to assist fire services and rescue units in deployments under critical conditions. It collects data about accident and disasters situations with extremely limited visibility, effectively improving ...
Robotics
Jun 19, 2018
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Self-driving delivery vehicles that are polite to pedestrians? Faster and more precise robotic arms? JD.com, the largest challenger to Alibaba's e-commerce empire in China, is investing in technology to speed up warehouse ...
Business
Apr 29, 2018
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