News tagged with aerobatics
Space junk problem? Just fire a laser!
Imagine yourself as an astronaut performing scientific experiments and crowd-stunning aerobatics. Suddenly, ear-stinging, blaring alarms go off. Mission Control radios that all space station personnel should ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 04, 2011 |
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Japanese scientists aim to create robot-insects
Police release a swarm of robot-moths to sniff out a distant drug stash. Rescue robot-bees dodge through earthquake rubble to find survivors.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jul 14, 2009 |
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Birds must choose between mating, migrating, study finds
Sex or nice weather. That's the agonizing choice some birds face, according to a new University of Guelph study.
Apr 06, 2011 |
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Decline of northern flying squirrel symptom of ailing ecosystem
(PhysOrg.com) -- Northern flying squirrels are rapidly disappearing from Pennsylvania forests. Southern flying squirrels are taking over.
Jan 24, 2011 |
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Robotic mini-quadrotors can now build towers (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Robotics researchers in the US that developed mini-helicopters or quadrotors have now demonstrated them working as a team to build quite complex structures such as towers or walls.
Jan 20, 2011 |
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Robots imitate honey bees for aircraft aerobatics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Australian scientists have developed a novel autopilot that guides aircraft through complex aerobatic manoeuvres by watching the horizon like a honey bee.
Dec 01, 2010 |
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Pigeon 'backpacks' track flock voting (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Pigeon flocks are guided by a flexible system of leadership in which almost every member gets a ‘vote’ but the votes of high-ranking birds carry more weight, a new study has shown.
Apr 08, 2010 |
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Robotics insights through flies' eyes
To understand how a fly's tiny brain processes visual information efficiently enough to guide its aerobatic feats -- and ultimately to build more capable robots -- researchers in Munich, Germany, have set ...
Jul 31, 2009 |
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Crew includes Twittering skipper, singer, ER doc
(AP) -- The astronauts headed to the international space station include a Twittering skipper, a classically trained musician who named her son after one of Columbia's fallen astronauts, and a former Navy ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 11, 2009 |
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Real pilots and 'virtual flyers' go head-to-head
(PhysOrg.com) -- Stunt pilots have raced against computer-generated opponents for the first time — in a contest that combines the real and the 'virtual' at 250 miles per hour.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 15, 2008 |
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Self-flying Stanford robocopter learn tricks though observation
Brow clenched in focus, expert radio-control pilot Garett Oku, of Mountain View, Calif., guided a 4-foot-long model helicopter through a dizzying sequence of aerobatic tricks, punctuated by an upside-down tailspin called ...
Sep 18, 2008 |
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Stanford's 'autonomous' helicopters teach themselves to fly
Stanford computer scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that enables robotic helicopters to teach themselves to fly difficult stunts by watching other helicopters perform the same maneuvers. ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 01, 2008 |
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