#British National Oceanographic Centre launches major unmanned exploration mission Collecting oceanographic data is accomplished usually by a combination of satellites buoys
#I think that to be realistic about the technology it#s important to realize that especially in the commercial space technology like this has a tendency to get mislabelled
Although there is some competition within this space he emphasizes the importance of cooperation. Progress from any one company is going to help the industry as a whole.
and helping him train for the All Star Games through a sequence of animated storybooks that play on a screen in his belly.
These kilobots#where a kilo stands for 1024#can form complex 2d shapes including a star a wrench and the letter#k
#satellites and commercial applications of space;##robotics and autonomous systems;##life sciences genomics and synthetic biology;##regenerative medicine;#
Overall automotive patents make up around one third of the total not including other types of vehicles such as trucks buses agricultural machinery aircraft and aerospace/defence.
and are a direct response to the pressure on space that is so common within large cities today.
and space instrument repair i
#Lifehand 2 prosthetic grips and senses like a real hand Roboticists and doctors working in Switzerland
#Robonaut doctor to practice in space Astronauts all know how important it is to stay healthy in space.
Most astronauts complete medical training which equips them with the skills to perform procedures such as first aid and basic surgery.
NASA came up with the answer recently when their teams began putting one of its humanoid robots through medical school.
For more complicated procedures an earth-based physician could control the robot via telepresence. After its training is complete the $2. 5 million Robonaut 2 designed to assist astronauts with their duties both inside
and outside the International space station will be able to add medical practices to its resume. Medical training is a complex and lengthy process even for a robot.
Unfortunately there is no super-software that can be uploaded to the robot to make it become an instant medical expert.
R2 joined its mechanical twin Robonaut 1 aboard the International space station on August 22 2013. Unlike R1 which is just a head
Other upgrades may enable the robot to work outside the space station to perform repairs and maintenance checks
by the time humans are ready to colonize Mars Robonaut doctors will be there to lend a healing hand d
#Urban vegetable garden system with LED lighting Keystone Technology LED vegetable garden system is a cultivation system for indoor plant factories that uses LED lighting instead of sunlight.
The most defining feature of the system on display at the company showroom in Yokohama is its 3-dimensional use of space. his is tiered a 5 cultivation system.
and does not have the coarse quality of lettuce grown in sunlight. Because it is softer it is a vegetable that is easy to eat even for elderly people.
and polyphenols than with vegetables grown in sunlight. ith this system there will be differences in production capacity depending on the shape of the plant.
#Chinaâ#moon landing and rover tip of iceberg Yutu (Jade Rabbit#)China rover-like robot was landed soft on the moon earlier this month.
and space exploration are just beginning to be seen. Yutu is wheeled a 6 rover. It has 4 cameras
hina conducts about 18 launches a year and sent its first astronaut into orbit in 2003.
In its most recent manned space mission in June three astronauts spent 15 days in orbit and docked with a space laboratory.
Their mission was part of Beijing quest to open a permanent space station in Earth orbit within the next decade.#
#On the nonmilitary/space frontier China#12th 5-Year Plan targeted robotics as a growth industry necessary for China#development.
A quick look at all the ongoing research projects at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Shenyang Institute of Automation shows their interest in space search
 Of course Play-i are not the only ones in this space with Thymio and Linkbot doing very good affordable educational robotics just to name a couple.
which spaces are available then drives itself to an empty space and parks. This system can automatically park multiple cars efficiently.
military and security (64%)manufacturing (57%)space exploration (45%)search and rescue (36%)and healthcare (18%.
and demo their quadrotor tricks at the ETH Flying Machine Arenaâ a 10x10x10m airspace dedicated to the study of control algorithms
and agreeing on the space in addition to rehearsing the demo itself. And then there was the packing to do:
Drone app harnesses crowd power to fast-track vision learning in robotic spacecraft Astrodrone is both a simulation game app for the Parrot AR.
Drone and a scientific crowdsourcing experiment that aims to improve landing, obstacle avoidance and docking capabilities in autonomous space probes.
As researchers at the European space agency Advanced Concepts Team, we wanted to study how visual cues could be used by robotic spacecraft to help them navigate unknown, extraterrestrial environments.
To this end, we designed a mission-based game where players simulate docking the Parrot with the International space station as quickly as possible
The code for communicating with Parrot is open source. Methodology The question we faced experimentally was how to couple the real-world object to the virtual space in which the drone would be flying.
In order to render the virtual space environment, we perform state estimation on the basis of the drone estimates of its height, speeds, angles,
accompanied by a press release about Astrodrone from the European space agency and the video shown below. Parrot also promoted our app on their site.
As long as there is even a small space the device can be used in any type of hospital.
It maps its own environment and uses an array of sophisticated sensors to autonomously move about a busy space without interfering with people or other objects.
and its dual modes of locomotion will enable it to fly long distances to survey large spaces in a short timespan,
One of the main problems in trying to get a flying robot to walk in small spaces is the surface areas of the wings.
but this makes it difficult for them to fit into smaller spaces. After observing D. rotundus
the research team used a foldable actuator that allows the wings to fold into a smaller space,
In that time, the process has achieved almost 100 percent efficiency in transporting the energy of sunlight from receptors to reaction centers where it can be harnessed a performance vastly better than even the best solar cells.
The chromophores have to be arranged just right, with exactly the right amount of space between them.
Good for business, good for the environment What if your business practices and operation can help save our planet?
We can change the way light waves are being reflected at will and ultimately focus a large area of sunlight onto a solar power tower
#NASA's drone is part chopper, part airplane Answer: NASA'S latest drone prototype, GL-10.
Better known by it's pop culture-inspired moniker, Greased Lightning, it is an innovative new concept for an unmanned vehicle (UAV) from NASA's Langley Research center in Hampton, Virginia.
The battery-powered drone has a 10-foot (3-meter) wingspan, 10 electric motors (eight on the wings,
one of the aerospace engineers working on the project, in a NASA press release.""We were ecstatic. Now we're working on our second goal--to demonstrate that this concept is four times more aerodynamically efficient in cruise than a helicopter."
as well as demonstrating the drone at various NASA events throughout the year. More from Tomorrow Transforme e
#Black hole is 30 times bigger than expected This shouldn't be possible. Researchers say they've detected a supermassive black hole at the center of a newly found galaxy that's far bigger than current theories allow.
The research was done by astronomers at Keele University and the University of Central Lancashire and will be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The galaxy, with the very clunky name of SAGE0536AGN, was discovered with NASA's Spitzer space telescope. Scientists think it's about 9 billion years old.
The research team says it confirmed a black hole in the galaxy's center by measuring the speed of the gas swirling around it.
Then they used the Southern African Large telescope to gather data to help determine the size of the black hole.
Black holes heading for'massive collision,'says astronomer What they found blew away their theories about how galaxies evolve.
The data indicated the black hole is 30 times larger than expected for this size of galaxy, according to a press release from the Royal Astronomical Society."
"Galaxies have a vast mass, and so do the black holes in their cores. This one though is really too big for its boots--it simply shouldn't be possible for it to be said so large
Dr. Jacco van Loon, an astrophysicist at Keele University and lead author of the new paper.
How did this happen? Researchers say it could be that the black hole just grew much faster than the galaxy surrounding it,
or maybe the galaxy's growth was stopped prematurely. Scientists aren't sure whether SAGE0536AGN is just a fluke
or whether they've found a new class of galaxies s
#Water flows on Mars Potentially life-giving water still flows across the ancient surface of Mars from time to time,
NASA scientists said Monday in revealing a potential breakthrough in both the search for life beyond Earth
and human hopes to one day travel there. While the discovery doesn't by itself offer evidence of life on mars,
either past or present, it does boost hopes that the harsh landscape still offers some refuge for microbes to cling to existence."
"said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA. NASA researchers using an imager aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter confirmed the watery flows by looking at light waves returned from seasonal dark streaks on the surface,
long suspected to be associated with liquid water. The investigation showed the streaks absorb light at specific wavelengths associated with chemicals known to pull water from the Martian atmosphere in a process known as deliquescence
but also help keep it from boiling off in the thin atmosphere of Mars, the researchers said.
lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program. The researchers'findings are in a new paper being presented this week at the European Planetary Science Congress in France.
This is not the first discovery of water on Mars. Researchers have known for many years that Mars has frozen water at its poles, in its thin atmosphere,
Nor is it the first potential clue that Mars could have once --or may still--host life.
The Mars Curiosity rover, for instance, has detected methane on the surface of Mars, as well as other chemical signatures suggesting the possibility of past or present life.
but researcher Mary Beth Wilhelm said the results suggest"more habitable conditions on the near surface of Mars than previously thought."
But Alfred Mcewen, who heads up NASA's Hirise high-resolution camera aboard the Mars orbiter,
said he's fairly confident life will one day be found on Mars."It's very likely,
that there's life somewhere in the crust of Mars, microbes, "he said. Jim Green, director of planetary science at NASA, said the discovery announced Monday puts NASA in a perfect position to look for that life."
"We haven't been able to answer the question, 'Does life exist beyond Earth?'"'"Green said."
"But following the water is a critical element of that. We now have, I think,
a great opportunity to be in the right locations on Mars to thoroughly investigate that
Ian Walker, a bioroboticist at Clemson University, has been working with NASA to develop a flexible snake
and crevasses on the moon or Mars. He says the next generation of devices will have specific applications,
Theye one of the weirdest organisms on the planet, and we keep coming up with unexpected uses for them.
Actually, some people think mushrooms aren from this planet at all. Really. Now comes word that researchers at Researchers at the University of California,
The mushroom anodesporosity creates more space for the transfer of energy which can improve battery performance.
An array of 64 miniature loudspeakers creates three separate sonic force fields that work together in the space just above the speaker array.
whether the sun is shining or the wind is blowing. But if a producer could store energy from those sources
If perfected, this onic tractor beamcould find uses ranging from treating kidney stones to creating artificial gravity on the International space station.
which requires squeezing through small spaces. They are also using the PLL approach to increase throughput by operating many cantilevers on a single chip.
their trajectories are bent into circular orbits, causing them to loop around and around. The higher the magnetic field, the tighter a particle orbit becomes.
However, to confine electrons to the microscopic scale of a crystalline material, a magnetic field 100 times stronger than that of the strongest magnets in the world would be required.
ultrahigh magnetic field, using laser beams to push atoms around in tiny orbits, similar to the orbits of electrons under a real magnetic field.
the group could make the atoms orbit, or loop around, in a radius as small as two lattice squares, similar to how particles would move in an extremely high magnetic field. nce we had the idea,
One example is construction in space, where working is difficult, there are severe constraints on volume and weight,
Other programmable materials could pay off in improved building environments. e want materials that transform themselves, depending on sunlight, moisture, humidity levels,
an we do it in the medical space??Industry partnerships work best hen we can actually collaborate to invent the future,
to think of something that no one is doing in that space and that can radically change an industry,
The Wifi Calling service will be limited to pay monthly subscribers using Samsung's Galaxy S6 and S5 phones and Microsoft's new Lumia 640."
who is the Truman and Nellie Semans/Alex Brown & Sons Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.
*Spacex: $12 billion The private space exploration firm founded by tech entrepreneur Elon musk announced in January that it raised $1 billion in a round led by Google and Fidelity Investments.
CB Insights rates its valuation at $12 billion. The company founded in 2002 is making rockets for NASA's space program and to resupply the International space station.*
*Pinterest: $11 billion The bulletin board-style social network confirmed in March a fresh investment round at a valuation of $11 billion,
More recently, the company entered the entertainment space, landing Netflix as a client. That was a product of the company's ability to process a lot of content in a short amount of time
The Synthetic Muscle could be used in robotics in deep space travel such as travel to Mars because of its radiation resistance."
"Based on the good results we had on planet Earth, the next step is to see how it behaves in a space environment,
"said Charles Gentile, a PPPL engineer who has worked closely with Rasmussen.""From there the next step might be to use it on a mission to Mars."Early Connection with PPPLRASMUSSEN began working with PPPL in 2007 just four years after she started Ras Labs. She received her first patent for a synthetic muscle in 1998.
It is a gel-like material called an electroactive polymer that can potentially mimic human movement
"We can't explore space without robots, "Rasmussen said.""Humans can only withstand a certain amount of radiation
so that limits the time that people can be in space, whereas robots particularly if they're radiation-resistant can be up there for long periods of time without being replaced."
and was equivalent to a trip from earth to Mars and back. A second test of 45 hours was enough to be equivalent to a trip to Jupiter
and beyondrasmussen and Gentile found that there was no change in the strength, electroacivity, or durability of the material due to the radiation although there was a slight change in color.
which is close to absolute zero, the coldest temperature possible in the universe. Preparing for launchsince then,
and the coupon will go into space, "said Gentile.""So I'll be up there with Gene Roddenberry."
a rocket carrying the Dragon, both produced by Space X, which will carry 4, 300 pounds of supplies and payloads, including material for research experiments, to the International space station National Laboratory.
The nine-engine rocket will propel the Dragon into orbit where it will meet with the Space station 33 hours after it is launched.
Astronauts will use the station's 57-foot arm to reach out and capture Dragon at 7: 15 a m. on April 15.
The material will be kept in a zero gravity storage rack in the U s. National Laboratory on the space station for 90 days.
The astronauts will photograph the materials every three weeks. When the material returns to Earth in July, it will be tested
and compared with identical materials that remained On earth. The International space station is an international science laboratory in low Earth orbit where astronauts conduct scientific research in biology, human biology, astronomy, meteorology and other fields in a gravity-free environment.
It has operated since November of 2000 with the cooperation of the U s.,Russia, many European nations, Japan, Canada, and Brazil.
It is staffed currently by two astronauts from NASA, three cosmonauts from Russia and an astronaut from the European space agency.
Use as a prostheticrasmussen is also exploring whether Synthetic Muscle could be used as a prosthetic liner.
she won a highly competitive grant from the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) to pursue the synthetic muscle experiment on the International space station National Laboratory (ISS-NL) through the Masschallenge global business accelerator.
She plans to attend the payload launch at the Cape canaveral Air force station Kennedy space center with her 12-year-old son Carl,
"I'm a huge space junkie. I wish I were going with my samples!""Rasmussen holds a Phd in chemistry, specialty polymer chemistry, from Virginia Tech and a master's degree in biology, specialty biophysics, from Purdue University.
Liftoff of Spacex resupply mission to the space statio o
#Clean interfaces: Research could usher in next generation of batteries, fuel cells The research, which is published in the journal Nature Communications,
which leads to a built-in charge at the interface referred to as the space charge effect,
electronics and the environment,"said Michael L. Cherry, chair and professor, LSU Department of physics and Astronomy."
The PNNL study shows how to create particles with a similar reactivity to platinum that replace some of the platinum with Earth-abundant metals.
providing a way to tailor surfaces with particle-rich areas and adjacent open spaces. The characterization experiments were done using the atomic force microscope
Professor Cait Macphee, of the University of Edinburgh's School of Physics and Astronomy said:"
physicists will peer into the resulting particle showers for new discoveries about the universe, said Ryszard Stroynowski, a collaborator on one of the collider's key experiments and a professor in the Department of physics at Southern Methodist University,
there's only one of them on the planet and when you upgrade it it's a new piece of equipment with new idiosyncrasies,
#How do bone cells grow in space? Alvetex Scaffold technology, produced by Durham University spin out company Reinnervate,
in microgravity or through diseases such as osteoporosis, will use the Alvetex Scaffold in experiments 150 miles above the surface of the Earth after the equipment is delivered by the Spacex Dragon capsule.
and Harvard to be sent then into space to help address their interests in bone formation."
"As private companies and the military continue to look to advanced composites for new aerospace and other applications,
and"apply 72 loading paths in that six-dimensional space.""The robot loads each specimen until it snaps, then quickly moves onto the next.
and others that send quantum information through free space. The fibre system was manufactured based on equipment by Swiss company ID Quantique,
Faking states In the case of free-space cryptography Makarov and colleagues showed that they could enable a"faked-state attack".
#Antarctica Larsen B Ice shelf Will Disintegrate Before the End of the Decade A newly published NASA study reveals that the last remaining section of Antarctica Larsen B Ice shelf is weakening
A team led by Ala Khazendar of NASA Jet propulsion laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, found the remnant of the Larsen B Ice shelf is flowing faster,
Khazendar said. lthough it fascinating scientifically to have a front-row seat to watch the ice shelf becoming unstable and breaking up, it bad news for our planet.
has been published online in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Khazendar team used data on ice surface elevations and bedrock depths from instrumented aircraft participating in NASA Operation Icebridge,
a multiyear airborne survey campaign that provides unprecedented documentation annually of Antarctica glaciers, ice shelves and ice sheets.
NASA uses the vantage point of space to increase our understanding of our home planet, improve lives and safeguard our future.
NASA develops new ways to observe and study Earth interconnected natural systems with long-term data records.
The agency freely shares this unique knowledge and works with institutions around the world to gain new insights into how our planet is changing.
Publication: Ala Khazendar, et al. he evolving instability of the remnant Larsen B Ice shelf and its tributary glaciers, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 419,1 June 2015, Pages 19910;
doi: 10.1016/j. epsl. 2015.03. 014source: Steve Cole, NASAIMAGE: NSIDC/Ted Scambo e
#New Polymer Gel Could Create Edible Devices for Ultra-Long Drug Delivery A team of scientists has developed a polymer gel that could allow for the development of long-acting devices that reside in the stomach,
their trajectories are bent into circular orbits, causing them to loop around and around. The higher the magnetic field, the tighter a particle orbit becomes.
However, to confine electrons to the microscopic scale of a crystalline material, a magnetic field 100 times stronger than that of the strongest magnets in the world would be required.
ultrahigh magnetic field, using laser beams to push atoms around in tiny orbits, similar to the orbits of electrons under a real magnetic field.
the group could make the atoms orbit, or loop around, in a radius as small as two lattice squares, similar to how particles would move in an extremely high magnetic field. nce we had the idea,
This amalgamation makes it a terrifically attractive material to apply to scientific developments in a wide variety of fields, such as electronics, aerospace and sports.
while providing a significant boost in the amount of power stored in a given space.
or an electric car youl find that batteries take up most of the space inside. Indeed, the recent evolution of batteries has made it possible to pack ample power in small places.
and safety while providing a significant boost in the amount of power stored in a given space.
The solid-state electrolyte also allows for greater power density the amount of power that can be stored in a given amount of space.
#Hubble Reveals That Markarian 231 Is powered by a Double Black hole Using NASA Hubble space telescope, a team of astronomers discovered that Markarian 231 is powered by two central black holes furiously whirling about each other.
Markarian 231 is the nearest galaxy to Earth that hosts a quasar, located 581 million light-years away.
The finding suggests that quasarshe brilliant cores of active galaxies may commonly host two central supermassive black holes,
which fall into orbit about one another as a result of the merger between two galaxies. Like a pair of whirling skaters, the black-hole duo generates tremendous amounts of energy that makes the core of the host galaxy outshine the glow of its population of billions of stars
which scientists then identify as quasars. Scientists looked at Hubble archival observations of ultraviolet radiation emitted from the center of Markarian 231 (Mrk 231) to discover what they describe as xtreme and surprising properties.
If only one black hole were present in the center of the quasar, the whole accretion disk made of surrounding hot gas would glow in ultraviolet rays.
Instead, the ultraviolet glow of the dusty disk abruptly drops off toward the center. This provides observational evidence that the disk has a big donut hole encircling the central black hole.
The best explanation for the donut hole in the disk based on dynamical models, is that the center of the disk is carved out by the action of two black holes orbiting each other.
The second, smaller black hole orbits in the inner edge of the accretion disk, and has its own mini-disk with an ultraviolet glow. e are excited extremely about this finding
because it not only shows the existence of a close binary black hole in Mrk 231, but also paves a new way to systematically search binary black holes via the nature of their ultraviolet light emission,
said Youjun Lu of the National Astronomical observatories of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences. he structure of our universe,
such as those giant galaxies and clusters of galaxies, grows by merging smaller systems into larger ones,
and binary black holes are natural consequences of these mergers of galaxies, added co-investigator Xinyu Dai of the University of Oklahoma.
The central black hole is estimated to be 150 million times the mass of our sun, and the companion weighs in at 4 million solar masses.
The dynamic duo completes an orbit around each other every 1. 2 years. The lower-mass black hole is the remnant of a smaller galaxy that merged with Mrk 231.
Evidence of a recent merger comes from the host galaxy asymmetry and the long tidal tails of young blue stars.
The result of the merger has been to make Mrk 231 an energetic starburst galaxy with a star formation rate 100 times greater than that of our Milky way galaxy.
The infalling gas fuels the black holesngine triggering outflows and gas turbulence that incites a firestorm of star birth.
The binary black holes are predicted to spiral together and collide within a few hundred thousand years. Mrk 231 is located 600 million light-years away.
The results were published in the August 14, 2015 edition of The Astrophysical Journal. PDF Copy of the Study:
A probable Milli-Parsec Supermassive Binary Black hole in the Nearest Quasar Mrk 23 e
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