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Geotimes
August 2003
Tim Palucka |
Looking for life in the Atacama Desert A so-called "terrestrial astrobiology" venture is probing the hyper-arid Atacama Desert in Chile to test the limits of life on Earth and to develop instrumentation to search for life on Mars.   |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2006
Jean Kumagai |
Halfway to Mars How a hardy band of researchers braved freezing nights, bad food, and high winds in the Chilean desert to test the next generation of planetary rovers. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2006 |
A Weed Grows in Chile A lot of engineering gets done within the climate-controlled, fluorescent-lit confines of the modern office park. But engineers also go to great lengths in pursuit of new technology, as Jean Kumagai learned during a trip to Chile's Atacama Desert last fall. |
PC Magazine
December 28, 2004
Sebastian Rupley |
My Very Own Robot Want to rig your own robot? After more than a year of development, White Box Robotics is preparing to ship its 912 series of customizable robots (shown) in the first quarter of 2005. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
NASA Considering Mars Drone For 2020 Rover The next NASA Mars rover may include a helper drone. |
Chemistry World
February 17, 2014
Emma Stoye |
Cell-powered robots swim like sperm Scientists in the US have combined a synthetic polymer with living heart cells to make a tiny robot that swims by undulating its tail, in a similar way to sperm. |
Fast Company
April 1, 2011
Rachel Z. Arndt |
Manuela Veloso on Robot Companions The professor of computer science and member of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is turning robots from joystick-operated poles on wheels into "CoBots" -- intelligent companions that can navigate and move. |
Geotimes
January 2007
Kathryn Hansen |
Teachers Face Desert Heat of Spaceward Bound Geoff Hammond is the latest teacher to be selected for NASA's Spaceward Bound program, a program aimed at training the next generation of space explorers. |
Technology Research News
December 31, 2003
Smalley & Patch |
Bots, humans play together Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University are betting that putting humans and robots on the same soccer team will encourage the kind of cooperation that leads to understanding. |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
Growing Robots From the Ground Up Patient, long-term investors are encouraged to stay abreast of trends in the robotics field because as people become more comfortable with robots, the field will grow up fast. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2006 |
Just Charge It At Robot Kitchen, in Hong Kong, robots greet, seat, and feed patrons. |
Outside
May 2008
Grayson Schaffer |
Desert Boom Life in Chile's Atacama Desert is hot, dry, and tough. That is, unless you're lying poolside at Tierra Atacama, the latest luxury hotel in the area. |
National Defense
November 2010
Eric Beidel |
Will Robots Be Asked to Fool the Enemy? In the course of investigating trust between robots and humans, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology developed algorithms that tell a robot when and how to deceive. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Joshua J. Romero |
Mars For The Rest Of Us Better cameras, greater bandwidth, and bigger displays put Mars within reach of armchair explorers and by maximizing what can be done from the ground NASA can make Mars exploration politically sustainable and financially worthwhile. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2011
Erico Guizzo |
Planetary Rovers: Are We Alone? Planetary rovers attempt to answer the most profound question in science |
PC Magazine
January 29, 2004
Sebastian Rupley |
Racy Robots Military aircraft inspired the slick-looking designs for a new line of robots from start-up company White Box Robotics. Unlike the predetermined features in most robots, White Box's robots will be designed to let each owner choose what his robot will do. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2006 |
Spacesuit, Snowsuit Red Planet simulations are meant to simulate as closely as possible what living and working on Mars would be like. But sometimes the illusion is broken. Snow doesn't fall on Mars, but nearby Hanksville, Utah, averages 15 centimeters per year. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2010 |
The Robot Baby Reality Matrix Some robot babies look real. Some act real. A few do both |
National Defense
July 2012
Eric Beidel |
Soft Robots Could Open Up New World of Spy Tactics The Pentagon could turn to tiny soft robots to fit in the nooks and crannies of the battlefield, taking sensors ever closer to the enemy. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2009
Erik Sofge |
3 New Farm Bots Programmed to Pick, Plant and Drive Researchers say the key to the future of industrial farm robots is keeping costs down by adapting existing commercial vehicles instead of building new ones. |
Popular Mechanics
December 14, 2009
Dan Carney |
Off-Roaders Offer Tips for Getting NASA's Spirit Out of Mars Sand NASA's Mars rover, Spirit, has been stuck in Martian sand since May. Professional off-road racers weigh in on how to get the vehicle unstuck. |
National Defense
June 2008
Stew Magnuson |
Students Hope Robot Snakes Slither Out of Lab A family of robots that mimic the movement of snakes have potential use in search-and-rescue and surveillance missions. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Prachi Patel |
One Team's Plan to Win the Google Lunar X Prize For the Carnegie Mellon team vying for the Google Lunar X Prize, failure to launch -- and land -- is not an option |
Chemistry World
July 9, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
3D printing allows soft robots to rise up Although they may not be taking over the world any time soon, a 3D printed soft robot mimicking the flexible body of an invertebrate has been manufactured by a group of scientists in the US. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2009
Alex Hutchinson |
RoboBath: NASA Studies The Cleanest Robot in the World In the icy north, scientists learn to sanitize their tools before sending out rovers to search for life on other planets. |
IndustryWeek
June 1, 2008
John Teresko |
A Robot that Can Smile or Frown MIT debuts Nexi, a robot with facial expressions. |
InternetNews
March 15, 2004
Alexander Wolfe |
Toyota's Next-Gen Computers: Robots Two-legged 'personal assistant' prototypes to be shown in Japan. |
Chemistry World
November 9, 2012
Laura Howes |
No methane on Mars, says Curiosity The idea that there was life on Mars has been dealt a blow after analysis of the planet's atmosphere found little to no methane. |
Chemistry World
February 19, 2015
Katrina Kramer |
Mars 3-D Having previously only had a vague interest in the Mars missions, Nasa investigator Jim Bell's book certainly got me hooked. |
Entrepreneur
January 2008
Amanda C. Kooser |
Rise of the Robots Robots are well on their way from the pages of science fiction to your front door. In fact, advanced humanoid robots could be a part of our everyday life as early as 10 years from now. |
Geotimes
March 2004 |
NASA says Mars once drenched in water Scientists from NASA's Mars explorer projects announced today that they had found definitive evidence for "a lot of water" at some point in the planet's history. |
Popular Mechanics
January 27, 2010
Daniel H. Wilson |
Spirit, NASA Martian Exploration Rover, Dies at 6 (Earth Years) The Spirit Rover, which explored the surface of Mars for over half a decade, discovering pivotal evidence of the past existence of water, was consigned to her final resting place. |
Geotimes
January 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Bush retools space program As the Mars rover Spirit prepares to drive off its platform tonight and into the martian terrain, President Bush prepared the United States to send humans to the red planet and beyond. |
Technology Research News
April 7, 2004
Kimberly Patch |
Robot guided by its voice Researchers generally help robots navigate by giving them the sense of sight. A simpler approach is based on another human trait: listening to the sound of one's own voice. It also helps if the walls have ears. |
Scientific American
January 2009
George Musser |
Space Exploration Sticker Shock--Economics at NASA The laws of physics are easy; it's economics that vexes NASA |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2008
Jill Jusko |
Toyota Debuts New Robot Models The Japanese manufacturer introduces its latest additions to "partner robots" being developed to assist people in their everyday lives, but practical use for household robots remains a few years away. |
Geotimes
February 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
No Lake on Mars? NASA's Mars Exploration Rover team says that the presence of standing water in Mars' geologic past can account for the geologic features and chemistry found in some places there. A group of geologists, however, is now challenging that idea. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2011
Erico Guizzo |
Robots With Their Heads in the Clouds A Google researcher argues that cloud computing could make robots smaller, cheaper, and smarter |
Popular Mechanics
December 15, 2009
Amber Angelle |
New Underwater Explorers Go Where Scientists Can't Engineers have created new ways to do ocean research and solve environmental and biologic problems. |
Wired
September 2000 |
At Home With The Androids Robosapiens... SIG... DB... Face Robot... Personal Robot R100... Jack... Robonaut... |
IndustryWeek
July 22, 2009
Peter Alpern |
Getting Ready for the 'Robot Revolution' As advances in technology allow for smarter, more versatile robots, they are expected to become more widely used in places such as laboratories, hospitals and food service operations. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2008 |
Slideshow: Next Stop, The Moon At a field test in Washington state, NASA's lunar robots go for a spin. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2013
Lucas Laursen |
Robot to Human: "Trust Me" Rescue robots respond to operator stress levels |
National Defense
January 2011
Eric Beidel |
Robots Become Nuclear Site's 'Junkyard Dogs' The new security guard at a famous nuclear testing site north of Las Vegas may lack heart, but it has enough brainpower to keep intruders away from government secrets buried on the property. |
Inc.
April 2006
Chuck Green |
A Record Year For Robots New orders of industrial robots jumped by 23 percent in 2005, thanks in part to growing interest in robots among entrepreneurs. Larger tax credits for purchases of new equipment are driving the trend, as are other factors. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2007
John Teresko |
Robots, Computers And Education At Georgia Tech, students are assigned their own personal robots. |
The Motley Fool
October 4, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
iRobot's Emotional Appeal People's personal attachment to their Roomba vacuums bodes well for iRobot's future prospects. |
Geotimes
June 2004
Naomi Lubick |
To Mars and Beyond The President's Commission on the Moon, Mars and Beyond presented its recommendations to the administration Wednesday morning, on how to proceed with the president's sweeping plan for future space travel. |
Popular Mechanics
February 4, 2010
Erik Sofge |
Robonaut2 Shows Real Workplace Potential For Humanoid Robots GM's goal in co-developing R2 is to eventually install similar systems in its plants, performing the kind of repetitive, ergonomically difficult jobs that might injure a human operator. |
Popular Mechanics
January 5, 2010
Jeremy Jacquot |
The Top 4 Sites to Land on Mars and Their Biggest Mysteries Scientists at the Pasadena based NASA research center will decide within the next two years where to send the Mars Science Laboratory rover after it launches in the fall of 2011. |
