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- NASA robots on Moses Lake dunes
- According to the Tri-City Herald, WA, NASA engineers in space suits have tested new robotic vehicles for two weeks on the dunes of Moses Lake, WA. These robots could be used on future NASA missions on the Moon and on Mars. According to the newspaper, five robotic vehicles were tested:...
- Tags: NASA, WA, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Polar robots to explore the Arctic
- It's now almost certain that the world's ice shelves are melting. And while satellites provide lots of data about their evolution, ground-based weather stations could be even more useful. But if scientists can no longer stay on fragile and volatile ice sheets, what can they do? They can use specially...
- Tags: Professor, Georgia Tech, SnoMotes, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Space HoRSE 1.04 (Windows)
- Inspired by the 1980s classic M.U.L.E., Space HoRSE Holistic Robotic Slave Engineer will bring gamers back to the golden days of computer gaming. In Space HoRSE, players must build a self-sufficient colony on an alien planet, then support their colony by gathering resources, such as titanium and zirconium, with their...
- Tags: Colony, Shrapnel Games Inc., Species, Games, Robots, Keyboards, Mice, Microsoft Windows, Personal Technology, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-02-29
- Robot Rover 1.2.4 (Mac)
- A rogue merchant from a far off galaxy has stolen gold coins from a bank on Earth. Fortunately it seems that the rogue spaceship had to make an emergency landing on the Moon. Your mission is to pick up all of the gold and find the spaceship.
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Spaceship, Solar Fusion Software, Robots, Desktops, Financial Services, Emerging Technologies, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-10-09
- Google backs contest to put robot on Mars
- Google backs contest to put robot on MarsMars?The CNet article mentioned and the excerpts used all say it's a Lunar/Moon program, not Mars... You might want to check your references again.Mars?The headline says the contest is to put a lander on Mars. I think it's the moon.RE: Google backs contest...
- Tags: Robots, robot, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-13
- Google backs contest to put robot on moon
- The transition from huge, government-funded space projects to those driven by private initiative and capital took a great step forward Thursday. The X Prize Foundation announced that Google is financing a contest to put a privately funded robotic rover on the moon. The thing would...
- Tags: Google Inc., NASA, Moon, Robot, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-09-13
- Lions trained to chase by robots
- I guess that lions living in Africa dont need to be stimulated to learn how to chase prey. But apparently, its a different story for the lions living in captivity in the Blair Drummond Safari Park located near Stirling in Scotland. In a recent article, BBC News reports that lions...
- Tags: Robots, robot, LionDrover, British Broadcasting Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-10-18
- Deep-diving robot takes to the bottom of Crater Lake
- Research team sends camera-equipped robot to get some long-awaitResearch team sends camera-equipped robot to get some long-awaited answersOn a followup to our previous video on the moss research happening at Crater Lake, CNET News.com was on hand for the official 'dive' of the latest rover to explore the depths of...
- Tags: Crater Lake, Research Team, robot
- Videos 2006-08-24
- ExoMars boot camp in Tenerife
- Last week, I wrote about the on-board software used to control robots involved in future space missions, such as the ExoMars rover, which should be launched around 2011. But, as reports BBC News, this robot is already trained on Earth, on the slopes of the volcano El Teide in the...
- Tags: rover, ExoMars, Tenerife
- Blog posts 2006-05-22
- 'Intelligent' robots for space exploration
- In recent years, our exploration of the Solar System has involved more orbiters and rovers than human astronauts. This trend should continue in the future and this is why we need more 'intelligent' or autonomous robots. But of course, these robots will be controlled by advanced on-board software. And SciSys,...
- Tags: rover
- Blog posts 2006-05-17
- Java runs remote-controlled Mars rover
- Java runs remote-controlled Mars roverI wonder why no MS software?Maybe NASA wanted it to be REALIABLE?I guess NASA would have looked pretty funny if the first picture sent back from Mars was a BSOD!No Windows of opportunity here ..."Mission Critical" means "No Microsoft" on Earth, too.I wonder why....no linux, or...
- Tags: Programming languages, .NET, Java, rover, NASA, software
- Discussion threads 2004-01-16
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