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Twenty Nine Groups Rallying for Robotic Race to the Moon

Google’s Lunar X Prize Foundation has made an announcement to the effect that 29 teams would compete for the $30 million prize for sending a robot on a lunar mission.

3 Mar 2011

Robonaut 2 Launched by NASA on Discovery Space Shuttle

The NASA Robonaut 2 (R2) was launched on the space shuttle Discovery on the STS-133 mission, along with an astronaut crew at Cape Canaveral in Florida on February 24th.

3 Mar 2011

Google Lunar X-Prize Final Team Roster Announced

The Google-sponsored Lunar X-Prize will be fought over by 29 teams from 17 different countries. The final line-up of teams competing for the $30 million robotic Moon-explorer prize has been confirmed.

22 Feb 2011

AeroVironment Develops World’s First Fully Operational Life-Size Hummingbird-Like Unmanned Aircraft

Technology is often an imitation of life and it seems that Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has turned its attention from flying snakes to hummingbirds.

22 Feb 2011

Japan Plans to Send Robot into Space by 2013

Lonely astronauts on the International Space Station may soon be getting an android friend from Japan. Japan's space agency JAXA is considering putting a talking humanoid robot on the International Space Station to watch the mission while astronauts are asleep, monitor their health and stress levels and communicate to Earth through the microblogging site Twitter.

20 Feb 2011

Robotics Lab Added to Discovery Museum Science and Space Center

The Discovery Museum Science and Space Center is launching a $200,000 robotics lab that will become an integral part of the center's new digs along the banks of the Sacramento River.

16 Feb 2011

NASA, WPI to Organize Sample Return Robot Challenge

NASA has partnered with Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to organize the Sample Return Robot Challenge, NASA’s new contest, focused on supporting advancements in the automated movement and robotic manipulation techniques.

16 Feb 2011

Astrobotic Technology to Launch Robotic Payload to Moon

Astrobotic Technology has made an agreement with SpaceX to launch a robotic payload through Falcon 9 to the Moon.

From Astrobotic Technology, Inc 16 Feb 2011

Robot Freighter Set for 'Blast Off'

A robot freighter is poised to blast into the skies on Tuesday in the heftiest liftoff in Europe's space programme that will also bring its tally of launches to a historic 200.

14 Feb 2011