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Wave Powered Autonomous Marine Robot Transmits Weather Data during Hurricane Sandy

Liquid Robotics®, an ocean data service provider and developer of the Wave Glider®, the first wave powered autonomous marine robot, reports one of their Wave Gliders named Mercury battled through Hurricane Sandy and successfully piloted through winds up to 70 knots, all the while transmitting weather data in real time.

From Liquid Robotics 1 Nov 2012

Searchable, Crowdsourced Map of the Global Robotics Industry

Robotics AlleyTM, a robotics industry public-private initiative based in Minnesota, has unveiled the world’s first searchable, crowdsourced map of the booming global robotics industry. Already populated with more than 1,300 robotics-related organizations from around the world, TheRoboticsMap.com integrates best practices from open-source intelligence gathering and crowdsourcing to build a flexible, ever-expanding map of robotics organizations, including manufacturers, suppliers, research organizations and university robotics departments.

1 Nov 2012

Teleconference Update on NASA Curiosity Rover's Mission to Mars' Gale Crater

NASA will host a media teleconference at 11:30 a.m. PDT Tuesday, Oct. 30, to provide an update about the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater.

31 Oct 2012

Curiosity Expedition Finds Similarity between Cuatro Ciénegas in Mexico and Gale Crater on Mars

Millions of years ago fire and water forged the gypsum rocks locked in at Cuatro Ciénegas, a Mexican valley similar to the Martian crater where NASA's Rover Curiosity roams. A team of researchers have now analysed the bacterial communities that have survived in these inhospitable springs since the beginning of life on Earth.

31 Oct 2012

Teams at Carnegie Mellon University to Compete in DARPA Robotics Challenge

Roboticists at Carnegie Mellon University will field two teams in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge, a competition in which robots will perform complex, physically challenging tasks as they respond to disaster scenarios in human-engineered environments, such as nuclear power plants.

25 Oct 2012

RAF Gets First UK-Based Armed UAV Operations Squadron

The RAF is getting its first UK-based armed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle operations squadron.

24 Oct 2012

Northrop Grumman Delivers Unmanned Aircraft Carrying Battlefield Airborne Communications Node

Northrop Grumman Corporation delivered a Global Hawk unmanned aircraft to the U.S. Air Force carrying the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) – expanding airborne communications and information sharing among military units in harsh environments.

24 Oct 2012

Blue Origin Successfully Conducts Space Crew Transportation Pad Escape Test

NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner Blue Origin conducted a successful pad escape test Friday at the company's West Texas launch site, firing its pusher-escape motor and launching a full-scale suborbital crew capsule from a simulated propulsion module.

24 Oct 2012

Community College Students Chosen for Rover Design at NASA

Forty community college students from across the United States have been selected to travel to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., to participate in the 2012 National Community College Aerospace Scholars (CCAS) project. The three-day event Oct. 23-25 will feature a rover-building experience.

18 Oct 2012