Keith’s note: NASA currently has two droids at work on Mars: Perseverance and its Older sibling Curiosity. Their common task is to perform astrobiology and astrogeology exploration activities on Mars. […]
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NASA Needs To Leverage Its Cool Tech Better
Keith’s note: NASA posted this interesting news on Friday: “Perseverance Rover Completes First AI-Planned Drive on Mars“. This is a standard press release thing without much thought as to how […]
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Hey NASA: These Are The Droids You Should Be Looking For
Keith’s 16 Nov update: Just the other day I posted some new video (below) of the latest cool droid from Boston Dynamics. Now they have simply outdone themselves. Compare NASA’s […]
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Russian Space Robot Fyodor / Robonaut/R5 Valkyrie Cage Match Cancelled
Russia’s New Space Robot Can Drive, Use Tools… and Shoot https://t.co/Pt6soPSa7q #RobotsMachines #fedor #futurismvideos pic.twitter.com/IT8QT0MLfz — Maximilian (@YellowDigits) April 18, 2017 Check out NASA's Dancing #Disco Droid R5 (video) #StarWars […]
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NASA Valkyrie R5 Robot Will Compete – But Only Against Itself (Update)
Northeastern puts NASA’s Valkyrie space robots through its paces, TechCrunch (video) Keith’s update: At one point in this video Valkyrie stumbles and requires the cables to catch her – unlike […]
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Does NASA Have A Robot That Can Do This?
Mars Rover Views Spectacular Layered Rock Formations “Curiosity took the images with its Mast Camera (Mastcam) on Sept. 8. The rover team plans to assemble several large, color mosaics from […]
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The Droid That NASA Should Be Sending To Mars
Keith’s note: While NASA pours money into its goofy R5 robot that cannot walk unless it is on a hoist, controlled by a human, and is always broken, Boston Dynamics […]
Posted inExploration
Hey NASA: This Is The Droid You Were Looking For
Keith’s note: Too bad NASA JSC’s R5 Robot is broken – and when it does work it can only do so on tethers and hoists. This Boston Dynamics robot can […]
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ATLAS Is Walking. Valkyrie Remains Hidden
ATLAS robot gets closer to walking like a human, TechGenMag “When Boston Dynamics first revealed their ATLAS robot on July 11, 2013, the bipedal humanoid robot was a clunky, slow […]
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NASA GSFC Dinosaur Track Location: "sensitive but unclassified"
Likely footprint of spiky dinosaur has NASA’s Md. campus on cloud nine, Washington Post “A scalloped mini-crater with four pointy toe prints pressed into ruddy rock, the putative dinosaur track […]