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Teams Win at NASA National Lunar Robotics Competition
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Oct 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Nineteen teams pushed their robot competitors to the limit, and three teams claimed a total of $750,000 in NASA prizes at this year's Regolith Excavation Challenge on Oct. 18. This is the ...
ESA's Lunar Robotics Challenge: A tough task for the student teams
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Oct 27, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Teide volcanic peak on the island of Tenerife acted as a mock-up of the Moon landscape last week, with eight European student teams tuning, testing and driving their lunar rovers in preparation ...
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Researchers show small robots can prepare lunar surface for NASA outpost
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Feb 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Small robots the size of riding mowers could prepare a safe landing site for NASA's Moon outpost, according to a NASA-sponsored study prepared by Astrobotic Technology Inc. with technical ...
Lunar prospecting robot to be field tested on Hawaii's Mauna Kea
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Oct 14, 2008 |
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The cool, rocky slopes of Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano that is Hawaii's highest mountain, will serve as a stand-in for the moon as researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, NASA and other organizations ...
China says completes 3D moon map
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Sep 29, 2009 |
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China has completed a high-resolution, three-dimensional map of the entire surface of the moon, in an important step towards a future lunar landing, an expert involved in the project said Tuesday.
UBC engineering students unveil moon dust-shoveling robot
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Oct 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A robot designed by UBC students will be shoveling moon dust at an international robotics competition next week, vying for a $500,000 prize and the opportunity to contribute to NASA's future space exploration ...
Panasonic breaks into robotics with medical robot
Jul 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Panasonic Corp. said Tuesday has developed a medical robot that dispenses drugs to patients, the Japanese electronics giant's first step into robotics.
LRO lunar mission successfully enters moon orbit
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Jun 23, 2009 |
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After a four and a half day journey from the Earth, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully entered orbit around the moon. Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., ...
Germany's CESAR crowned king of rovers in ESA’s Robotics Challenge
Nov 04, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A robot rover designed by a Bremen university team has won an ESA contest to retrieve soil samples from a lunar-style terrestrial crater. Eight student teams fielded rovers during the event, ...
NASA's LCROSS Mission Changes Impact Crater
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Sep 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission (LCROSS) based on new analysis of available lunar data, has shifted the target crater from Cabeus A to Cabeus (proper).
NASA's new moon probe sends back moon shots
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Jun 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- NASA's new lunar probe launched less than a week ago has already sent back some shots of the moon.
3 questions: Ben Weiss discusses what a wet moon might mean
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Sep 30, 2009 |
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Last week, NASA and other agencies announced results from instruments aboard three different spacecraft which all indicate that there is water present in the surface soil, or regolith, of the moon. Although ...
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