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Bonanza King Rock on Mars Not Stable Enough for Safe Drilling

Evaluation of a pale, flat Martian rock as the potential next drilling target for NASA's Curiosity Mars rover determined that the rock was not stable enough for safe drilling.

25 Aug 2014

MIT Algorithm Enables Drones to Monitor ‘Health’ Aspects in Real Time

In the near future, the package that you ordered online may be deposited at your doorstep by a drone: Last December, online retailer Amazon announced plans to explore drone-based delivery, suggesting that fleets of flying robots might serve as autonomous messengers that shuttle packages to customers within 30 minutes of an order.

25 Aug 2014

Vortex Technology-Based Robot Moves Along Ceilings to Check Condition of Bridges

Bridges become an infrastructure problem as they get older, as de-icing salt and carbon dioxide gradually destroy the reinforced concrete. A new robot can now check the condition of these structures, even in places that people cannot reach.

25 Aug 2014

Students Design and Build Small UAV Within 10 Weeks

Standing at the edge of an isolated field, Peter Blake dropped a few bits of dried grass to check the wind before giving the signal to launch the small, computer-controlled aircraft that he and seven other students built for a course at Stanford School of Engineering.

20 Aug 2014

Manned and Unmanned Carrier Aircraft Operate Together

Northrop Grumman Corporation and the U.S. Navy offered a glimpse of the future of carrier aviation on Aug. 17 by conducting a series of cooperative flights from the aircraft carrier, USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), using an X-47B Unmanned Air System (UCAS) and an F/A-18 Hornet.

20 Aug 2014

UD Celebrates Opening of New Robotic Discovery Laboratories

Joanne Currier Daiber gave up a career in marine science for love, but she never gave up her love of marine science.

20 Aug 2014

First Fully Autonomous Mission Successfully Conducted by Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin, in collaboration with the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC), successfully conducted a fully autonomous resupply, reconnaissance, surveillance and target-acquisition demonstration using its Squad Mission Support System (SMSS) unmanned ground vehicle, K-MAX unmanned helicopter and Gyrocam optical sensor.

From Lockheed Martin Corporation 19 Aug 2014

Innovate Precision Farming Using Drones

Since 2010, the company Quetzal Aerospace, based in the city of Queretaro, in the middle of Mexico, began manufacturing drones. A little more than four years after its birth, the company has expressed its intention to use these platforms to optimize aeronautical techniques for farmers, in order to promote "precision agriculture" in the country.

19 Aug 2014

NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Selects ‘Bonanza King’ as Fourth Drilling Target

The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has chosen a rock that looks like a pale paving stone as the mission's fourth drilling target, if it passes engineers' evaluation.

18 Aug 2014

New Project to Investigate Potential Use of UAVs to Understand Britain’s Heritage

A team from the University of Leicester is to investigate the potential use of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) technology to advance understanding of our heritage.

14 Aug 2014