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Tiny flying machines inspired by nature will revolutionize surveillance work

Tiny aerial vehicles are being developed with innovative flapping wings based on those of real-life insects.

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 28, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Flying machines are YouTube sensation

(PhysOrg.com) -- The latest YouTube sensation isn’t a puppy that dances to Lady Gaga or a kitten that opens beer bottles. By using unmanned aerial vehicles called quadrotors, two Ph.D. candidates at the ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 22, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 8 | with audio podcast




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When worlds collide: Researchers harness supercomputers to understand solar storm, magnetosphere

If the sun is anything, it is reassuring. It rises, sets, and rises again, allowing us to grow crops, get tan, and power homes, just to name a few of humanity's most important life-sustaining functions. No ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Airborne robot swarms are making complex moves (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania this week released a video that shows their new look in GRASP Lab robotic flying devices. They are now showing flying devices with more complex ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (31) | comments 10 | with audio podcast report

Studying butterfly flight to help build bug-size flying robots

To improve the next generation of insect-size flying machines, Johns Hopkins engineers have been aiming high-speed video cameras at some of the prettiest bugs on the planet. By figuring out how butterflies ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

GRAIL returns first video from moon's far side

(PhysOrg.com) -- A camera aboard one of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft has returned its first unique view of the far side of the moon. MoonKAM, or Moon Knowledge ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Snakes improve search-and-rescue robots

Designing an all-terrain robot for search-and-rescue missions is an arduous task for scientists. The machine must be flexible enough to move over uneven surfaces, yet not so big that it's restricted from tight ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Send in the supplies: RoboCopters in Marines' future

Marines running low on ammo may one day use an app on their digital handhelds to summon a robotic helicopter to deliver supplies within minutes, enabled by technologies from a new Office of Naval Research (ONR) program.

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Nintendo gives 2nd glimpse of Wii U game machine

Nintendo Co.'s upcoming Wii U game console will come with a controller that has a big, touch-enabled screen. At first glance, that seems like an obstacle to the kind of casual multiplayer gaming that made ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Space station crew anticipating SpaceX Dragon's arrival

In a media chat on Wednesday three crew members from the International Space Station said they are anticipating the historic arrival of SpaceX’s Dragon cargo ship to the ISS next month. “For all ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 9

Twin probes to circle moon to study gravity field

The moon has come a long way since Galileo first peered at it through a telescope. Unmanned probes have circled around it and landed on its surface. Twelve American astronauts have walked on it. And lunar ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 26, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (11) | comments 25

Virginia Tech unveils HokieSpeed, a new powerful supercomputer for the masses

Virginia Tech crashed the supercomputing arena in 2003 with System X, a machine that placed the university among the world's top computational research facilities. Now comes HokieSpeed, a new supercomputer ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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