News tagged with flying machines
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.
Jul 28, 2011 |
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Flying machines are YouTube sensation
(PhysOrg.com) -- The latest YouTube sensation isnt 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 ...
Mar 22, 2011 |
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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
Feb 07, 2012 |
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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 ...
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 ...
Feb 02, 2012 |
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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
Feb 01, 2012 |
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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 ...
Jan 19, 2012 |
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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.
Jan 10, 2012 |
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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 ...
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Jan 10, 2012 |
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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 SpaceXs Dragon cargo ship to the ISS next month. For all ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 05, 2012 |
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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
Dec 26, 2011 |
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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 ...
Dec 21, 2011 |
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