On June 23rd, NASA and partner Armadillo Aerospace tested the new Guidance Embedded Navigator Integration Environment (GENIE) for safely landing lunar spacecraft. It was hoped that it could “figure out the complex algorithms necessary to process volumes of data from the laser altimeter, GPS and inertial sensors, and quickly enough to steer the rocket engine [...]
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NASA successfully tests autonomous lunar lander navigation system GENIE
Posted by Eric on July 7th, 2010
Play “Mars Escape” to help MIT Media Lab develop robots that collaborate with humans
Posted by Eric on June 17th, 2010
There has been a lot of chatter lately regarding the coming trend of using games for work, using games to get people to accomplish tasks. This is one such game, designed to gather data as people interact, which can be used later for modeling actual robot behavior. “The MIT researchers are encouraging as many people [...]
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Tags: behavior model, game, mars, model, play 
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Robot Roundup
Posted by Eric on May 21st, 2010
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Posted in defense, domestic, industrial, medical, military / law enforcement, space Tags: androids, gallery, pictures, robots No Comments »Japanese Robots to the Moon in 2015
Posted by Eric on April 29th, 2010
SOHLA (Space Oriented Higashiosaka Leading Association), a Japanese business group, has announced its intentions to put a humanoid robot on the moon in 2015. They estimate the cost of this project at 1 billion yen ($10.5 million USD.) The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is sending wheeled robots to the moon in or around 2015, [...]
ROBOTS! – IN SPACE!
Posted by Eric on April 28th, 2010
NASA and General Motors announced on Tuesday that they planned to send a robot to the International Space Station, with the eventual goal of having it subdue help the astronauts there. According to NASA and G.M., Robonaut 2 (R2) will be the first humanoid robot to leave Earth. R2 will be a passenger on the [...]
