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NASA spinoffs: Bringing space down to Earth
Oliver Mitchell
24 Apr 2017
In a time of “America First,” the benefits of space travel are clouded by the smoke of hyperbole. In reality, there has been over 2,000 inventions courtesy of NASA that are making our lives bette...
Prepping a robot for its journey to Mars
MIT News
21 Oct 2016
Sarah Hensley is preparing an astronaut named Valkyrie for a mission to Mars. It is 6 feet tall, weighs 300 pounds, and is equipped with an extended chest cavity that makes it look distinctly female. ...
Livestream: NASA’s final sample return robot competition
Robohub Editors
31 Aug 2016
After five years of competition by more than 40 different teams from around the globe, NASA’s Sample Return Robot Challenge has reached its final stage. The top seven teams will compete for the $1.3...
NASA Space Robotics Challenge prepares robots for the journey to Mars
Robohub Editors
18 Aug 2016
The Space Robotics Competition is open for teams to develop and display the abilities of an R5 robot by assisting in the procedures for a NASA mission to Mars, offering a $1 million prize pool for ...
NASA Robonaut 2 simulation: Placing an ISS panel in The Construct
Ricardo Téllez
24 Jun 2016
By Miguel Angel
One of the most wanted robot simulations is a robot that can be used for anything. Robonaut is one like this. NASA kindly gave this simulation for public use and we thought here in ...
SpaceX nails landing on drone ship
Kassie Perlongo
11 Apr 2016
After several unsuccessful attempts, SpaceX finally made a perfect touchdown with its Falcon 9 rocket on the drone ship, aptly named: 'Of Course I Still Love You.' A historic moment with the help...
NASA gives MIT a humanoid robot to develop software for future space missions
MIT News
18 Nov 2015
By Adam Conner-Simons, MIT CSAIL
NASA announced yesterday that MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is one of two university research groups nationwide that will...
Obama connects robots to jobs in State of the Union address
Hallie Siegel
22 Jan 2015
US President Barack Obama linked robots and jobs in his sixth State of the Union address this Tuesday. The State of the Union Address is usually delivered annually by the President in a joint sessio...
Google commits $1.36 billion for NASA facility, to house their robotics, space and flight technologies
Frank Tobe
12 Nov 2014
Google subsidiary Planetary Ventures has committed to a 60-year $1.16 billion lease of the 1,000 acre Moffett Field Naval Air Station. The agreement includes an additional $200 million to refurbish th...
Antares orb-3 accident
Ioannis K. Erripis
29 Oct 2014
A very unfortunate incident for NASA and the commercial orbital transportation services program took place yesterday. The Antares rocket that was about to send the Cygnus spacecraft on the ISS explode...
Skyward announces first commercial drone network demonstration | SUAS News
Hallie Siegel
28 Oct 2014
http://vimeo.com/109968038
SkyWard, a leading software platform for the aerial robotics ecosystem, today announced the Urban SkyWays Project, the first end-to-end demonstration of a commercial dron...
NASA 3D prints rocket injector, initial tests successful | NASA News
Hallie Siegel
29 Aug 2014
Engineers just completed hot-fire testing with two 3-D printed rocket injectors. Certain features of the rocket components were designed to increase rocket engine performance. The injector mixed liqui...
Winners of hurricane-tracking UAS design challenge announced | NASA News
Hallie Siegel
09 Jul 2014
From a NASA press release:
A team of students from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg captured first place in NASA's University Aeronautics Design C...
Curiosity’s Martian anniversary selfie is a sign of the times
Hallie Siegel and Ioannis K. Erripis
26 Jun 2014
NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover captures a selfie to mark a full Martian year - 687 Earth days - spent exploring the Red Planet. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Robots, selfies and remote connectedne...
Robonaut doctor to practice in space
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
12 Mar 2014
Astronauts all know how important it is to stay healthy in space. Weightlessness alone can cause a number of physiological changes including muscle atrophy, loss of blood volume and bone loss. Most as...
Video: Panel discussion celebrating 10 years of the Mars Exploration Rover
Robohub Editors
06 Jan 2014
Tuesday, Jan. 7, 10:30AM - 12PM Eastern Time: NASA and the Smithsonian team up to facilitate two panel discussions on Mars robotic and human missions. Held in NASM's Moving Beyond Earth gallery, par...
CubeSats: Launching education into space
Hallie Siegel
06 Dec 2013
Three Cubesats were deployed November 19, 2013 from a Small Satellite Orbital Deployer (SSOD) attached to the Kibo laboratory’s robotic arm. Image Credit: NASA.
Four more student-built CubeSat rese...
Don’t build robots, build robot systems
Alan Winfield
07 Oct 2013
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Why aren't there more intelligent mobile robots in real world applications? It's a good question, and one I'm often asked. The answer I give most often is tha...
NASA closes most of its doors due to US Congress shutdown, but Jet Propulsion Lab continues operating
Hallie Siegel
02 Oct 2013
We had hoped to be sharing highlights with you this week from NASA's Asteroid Initiative Idea Synthesis Workshop, which was scheduled to run this September 30 to October 2 at the Lunar Planetary Ins...
NASA to host workshop exploring ideas for protecting Earth from asteroids | NASA News Release
Robohub Editors
04 Sep 2013
NASA has chosen 96 ideas it regards as most promising from more than 400 submitted in response to its June request for information (RFI) about protecting Earth from asteroids and finding an asteroid h...
Astronaut on International Space Station successfully controls K10 rover on Earth, supporting use of telerobotics in future deep space missions
Terry Fong
02 Jul 2013
On June 17, 2013, Astronaut Chris Cassidy successfully drove a K10 rover on earth, via remote connection from the Surface Telerobotics Workbench on the International Space Station, showing that robo...
Space mining: Robots in the final frontier
Kris Zacny
01 Jul 2013
Over the past two decades, robotic planetary exploration has generated an incredible wealth of knowledge about our neighbors in the Solar System. We now realize that celestial bodies within our reach...
Attention C++ coders: NASA/TopCoder launch $10,000 Robonaut challenge
Robohub Editors
03 Apr 2013
NASA and and the community developer platform TopCoder are launching a series of coding competitions to help Robonaut 2 learn how to interact with the types of input devices used by human astronauts o...
NASA rover finds conditions once suited for ancient life on mars | NASA JPL
Sabine Hauert
12 Mar 2013
An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA's Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes.See on www.jpl.nasa.gov...
A visual history of robotic Mars probes | Wired UK
Hallie Siegel
11 Mar 2013
Check out Paul Butt's beautifully illustrated infographic on the history of Mars exploration by robotic probes, and the many successes and failures along the way.
See on Wired UK.
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A conversation with NASA’s Dave Lavery
Eric Wind
09 Jan 2013
On Monday, I had the opportunity and pleasure to have a discussion with NASA's Program Executive for Solar System Exploration, Dave Lavery. During the course of the conversation, Dave answered my ques...
Auto-gopher wireline drill demonstration and field test
John Payne
28 Dec 2012
The Auto-Gopher drill is a wire-line rotary-hammer drill designed for drilling on Mars, the Moon, or the icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter. The depth of penetr...John Payne's insight:This type of drill ...
Robotic explorers may usher in lunar ‘water rush’ | NASA
John Payne
19 Nov 2012
“The American space program stands at the cusp of a ‘water rush’ to the moon by several companies developing robotic prospectors for launch in the near future, according to a NASA sc...
Lego robot controlled from space
Wolfgang Heller
10 Nov 2012
Researchers from the METERON space project have for the first time ever successfully controlled a LEGO robot at ESA's Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, from the International Space Station (IS...
NASA X1 robotic exoskeleton
Wolfgang Heller
03 Nov 2012
NASA's X1 robotic exoskeleton is a mechanical suit designed to help astronauts exercise while in space, and here on Earth it can help paraplegics walk. In space, the joints would be configured to resi...
Registration opens for the 2013 NASA-WPI Sample Return Robot Challenge – WPI
Andra Keay
29 Oct 2012
The objective of the competition is to encourage innovations in automatic navigation and robotic manipulator technology. The competition offers as much as $1.5 million in prize money.
See on www.wpi....
Space business, with Stephen Gorevan
Podcast team
19 Oct 2012
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In today’s episode we speak with Stephen Gorevan from Honeybee Robotics about how he and Chris Chapman started the company and how his childhood dream...
Exoskeletons: New and old
Andra Keay
12 Oct 2012
With NASA's X1 Robotic Exoskeleton in the news today, it's timely to look at the increasing range of exoskeletons in development or use today.
X1 (NASA, IHMC)
Built in conjunction with...
NASA’s Ironman-like exoskeleton could give astronauts, paraplegics improved mobility and strength
Ioannis K. Erripis
11 Oct 2012
Spinoff may help astronauts stay healthier in space with the added benefit of assisting paraplegics in walking here on Earth.
See on www.nasa.gov...
Canada’s next-generation spaceship robotic arms
Andra Keay
05 Oct 2012
Canada's history of spacecraft robotics gets a boost with new generation of "Canadarms"...
See on www.cbsnews.com...
NASA funds 8 robotics projects to aid space exploration
Andra Keay
19 Sep 2012
NASA will award a total of $2.7 million to eight advanced robotics projects, in an effort to push forward the frontiers of space exploration, agency officials announced Friday (Sept. 14).
See on www....
