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Artificial Intelligence May Change the Way NASA Studies Space

How do you get a robot to recognize a surprise?

22 Jun 2017

Norwegian Researchers Investigate How Snake Robot May Help Perform Maintenance Work on ISS

Norwegian researchers are looking into how a snake robot might carry out maintenance work on the International Space Station, study comets, and explore the possibility of living and working in lava tunnels on the Moon.

22 Jun 2017

MIT Engineers Design Unpiloted Aerial Vehicles that can Fly Over Longer Durations

When phone and Internet systems across a broad area are disrupted during a natural calamity, communications payloads offering temporary telecommunications coverage to the people in need can be carried by means of autonomous aircraft hovering over the affected area.

7 Jun 2017

NASA Selects BluHaptics to Improve Remote Robotic Operations in Space

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected BluHaptics to receive new grant funding to apply its proprietary software to remote robotic operations in space. Synchronizing what a robot sees and does through advanced applications of real-time modeling, force feedback and machine learning, BluHaptics' software addresses the challenges of latency, spatial awareness and control that have long limited robots' effectiveness in space.

25 Apr 2017

Georgia Tech Team Secures First Place in Drone Racing National Championship

The top trophy at the Collegiate Drone Racing National Championship held on April 15th at Purdue University was received by three engineering students.

20 Apr 2017

New High-Performance Platform Boosts the Future of Commercial Drone Applications

On Apr 12, 2017, PrecisionHawk, a provider of enhanced commercial drone technologies, announced that it will work in partnership with Corning Incorporated in order to sell the Corning® microHSI™ 410-SHARK hyperspectral camera merged with PrecisionHawk's platform for drone data collection and analysis.

13 Apr 2017

Researchers Demonstrate First Complete Sabotage Attack on 3D Printed Drone Propeller

A group of researchers from three universities combined their skills to demonstrate the first complete sabotage attack on a 3D additive manufacturing (AM) system, describing the way a cyber attack and malicious manipulation of blueprints can seriously damage production of a machine or device.

21 Oct 2016

New UAS Rule Provides Easier Path for Commercial Drone Operators to Secure FAA Certification

The recent changes to the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is a significant development because commercial drone operators will no longer require Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval by exemption, which has typically taken months to secure.

21 Oct 2016

WVU Engineering Students Win $750,000 Top Prize in NASA's Robotics Competition

NASA just recently held this year's Robotics contest last week and a group of ten Engineering Students from West Virginia University won a whopping $750,000 which was given last week in Massachusetts' Worchester Polytechnic Institute, as reported by ABC News.

14 Sep 2016

MIT’s REXIS to Help Spacecraft Identify Locations for Collecting Asteroid Sample

An SUV-sized spacecraft, loaded with instruments and an extendable robotic arm, will soon be barreling toward a space rock, on a round-trip journey that promises to return an unprecedented souvenir: extraterrestrial soil, taken directly from an asteroid, that could hold clues to the very early universe.

8 Sep 2016