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Sounds of NASA's Robotic Operations Center
Listen to the buzzing and whirring of robots that help shape the future of space exploration. NASA Robotics Technologist Brian Roberts takes you on a sound tour of the lab where robots are tested for spaceflight. Music credits:...
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Only In Chile 12 - NASA Robot Testing in Chilean Desert
NASA Robot Testing in Chilean Desert:A NASA robot is tested in the Chilean desert with the hope that it can find signs of life on Mars.
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NASA | RRM: Mission to the Future Delivers the Goods
Fill'er up! That's the promise of robotic refueling on orbit: aging satellites can get a new lease on life from a robotic machine making a service call. Or, at least, the dream of such a system got dramatically closer after NASA's...
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Hyperion: NASA's Robotic Prototype for Mars Exploration in the Atacama Desert
Hyperion is a cutting-edge NASA robotic prototype designed for Mars exploration. It is being tested in Chile's Atacama Desert, known for its extreme aridity and lack of organic life. The ultimate goal is to develop a robot capable of...
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NASA | Robots on the Roof
The Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) is one of the first places that scientists turn when volcanoes, wildfires, pollution plumes, dust storms and many other phenomena—both natural and manmade—make an appearance. The network of...
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NASA | RRM Day One: Captured!
Day One of NASA's Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) wraps, and mission planners are giving it high marks. Designed to push the boundaries of what robots can do in space, the five-day RRM effort has ambitious goals. Operational managers at...
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NASA | RRM: The Main Event
In orbit at 18,000 miles an hour, day and night change places every 90 minutes. Darkness and light, sleep and wake: it's tough to focus on precise tasks floating outside the International Space Station. But not if you're a robot. NASA's...
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Life on Mars? NASA's MAVEN enters Martian orbit to find out
NASA's robotic spacecraft MAVEN ended its 10-month journey on Sunday when it entered orbit around Mars to begin its mission to study how Mars lost its water. According to Reuters, after traveling 442 million miles, MAVEN ignited its six...
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NASA | Behind the Scenes at the Satellite Servicing Center and Robotic Lab
NASA's highly anticipated Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) began operations on the International Space Station with the Canadian Dextre robot and RRM tools March 7-9, 2012, marking important milestones in satellite-servicing technology...
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NASA to attach ‘robot hotel’ to International Space Station
NASA plans to launch a storage space for robotic tools called the Robotic Tool Stowage, or RiTS, to the International Space Station.
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NASA | Space Station Robots Test Techniques of the Future
In an important demonstration of new technical methodologies, from January 14-24, 2013, NASA engineers will try to simulate the transfer of fuel from one vehicle to another, in space, with nothing but robots doing the physical work....
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NASA | Interns Grab on to the Future
Interns working in the innovative lab at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center were given a robotic arm kit and given free reign. What did the interns do? With the college interns as project leads, the team, which also consisted of high...
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NASA to use lasers for space communication
NASA has announced that it is building a new satellite dish as part of the Deep Space Network that would be able to communicate with far away robotic spacecrafts.
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Mars robots: NASA’s new rover and rocket tosser
NASA’s next Mars lander will have to land the mission’s heavy rover, robotic arm, rocket and rocket tosser.
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NASA proposes steam-powered hopping robot for missions to the solar system’s icy moons
NASA says it might use a steam-powered hopping robot to explore the icy terrain of Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus.
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Space Facts II - Robotics For The Space Station
Space Facts II puts viewers on the forefront of space exploration, examining its role on Earth in fighting forest fires, controlling diseases (such as diabetes), combating air pollution and mapping solar and lunar cycles. This video...
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NASA's Human Isolation Experiment
New ReviewExtreme isolation is something our greatest explorers have faced in varying degrees. Now, a team of six NASA recruits have begun a year-long mission on the desolate side of a barren Hawaiian volcano that will simultaneously test the...
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5 of the Most Important Inventions in Robotics
A lot of robots are developed to physically replicate our actions and behavior, like a bipedal, balanced walk, a large range of motion, and the ability to perceive and interact with the environment. But, maybe not to your surprise,...
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Building Robot Astronauts
NASA has put out the challenge: can YOU build software for a space robot? Along with that warm fuzzy feeling that you've helped humanity reach for the stars, a cash prize will be awarded to the winners.
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5 Robots You Can Hug
Developers are working to make softer, squishier robots that are flexible enough to maneuver in extreme environments, including inside the human body!
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5 Robots You Can Hug
Developers are working to make softer, squishier robots that are flexible enough to maneuver in extreme environments, including inside the human body!
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NASA | Fermi's Close Call with a Soviet Satellite
NASA scientists don't often learn that their spacecraft is at risk of crashing into another satellite. But when Julie McEnery, the project scientist for NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, checked her email on March 29, 2012, she...
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Testing Robotic Satellite Servicing Capabilities
This six-legged, 10 by 16-foot robot mimics how satellites move in space. NASA uses the hexapod robot to conduct precise tests of robotic satellite servicing operations. Sitting on top of the six-legged hexapod is a partial model of a...
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Robotic Refueling: Paving the Way for Exploration
One small box of technology is getting NASA one step closer to future exploration missions. The Robotic Refueling Mission 3, or RRM3, will prove technologies to transfer and store common consumables, like spacecraft fuel, in space. NASA...