Andy Choi

Articles from Andy

University of Southern Indiana Participates in Lunabotics Competition

The University of Southern Indiana takes part in the Lunabotics Mining Competition organised by NASA at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

22 Jun 2011

Automated Transfer Vehicle Prepares to Leave the International Space Station

An Automated Transfer Vehicle has been undocked from the International Space Station in order to accommodate the Russian Cargo craft, which is expected to enter ISS sometime later in the week.

22 Jun 2011

NASA and DARPA Sponsor Zero Robotics Competition

TopCoder is working with MIT Space Systems Lab and Aurora Flight Sciences for organising the Zero Robotics competition.

22 Jun 2011

NASA and DARPA Offers Students an Opportunity to Help

If you are a high school student fascinated with all things space this might just be the opportunity that you were waiting for. What the NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA are offering is the opportunity to design experiments that will actually be tested in space.

21 Jun 2011

Canada's New Polymer Banknotes Honour Canadian Robotics and Space Pogram

The Canadian Government and Bank of Canada have got together to honour the Canadian space program in a unique manner. The new five dollar bill will profile the workhorse of the International Space Station, Canadarm2 and Dexte which were developed by MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associated Ltd.

21 Jun 2011

William Lynn Says Robotics Key to U.S. Military Despite Budget Cuts

William Lynn, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defence said that the US would strive to keep its lead in unmanned robotic technology despite the $400 billion reduction in defense spending. The cuts in defence budget are part of the Obama government’s goal of reducing the U.S. deficit over the next 12 years.

21 Jun 2011

UK Artist Trains Robot to Sketch

Patrick Tresset, an artist from the UK, has been successful in training the AIKON II robot to develop its own drawing skills. He has trained the robot to sketch faces from a complex mix of lines.

21 Jun 2011

U.S Military to Lead in Unmanned Robotic Technology Despite Budget Cuts

The U.S Deputy Secretary of Defence stated that the military would continue to be the leader in using unmanned robotic technology despite cost cutting measures of $ 400 billion in the defence budget. William Lynn, the Deputy Secretary, added that the Pentagon would continue to lead in the cyber security and long-range target striking using missiles, electronic attacks and aircraft.

21 Jun 2011

CryoXtract Gets Financial Support for Automated Frozen Sample Aliquotter

CryoXtract has received huge financial aid towards the commercialization of its Automated Frozen Sample Aliquotter. The automated aliquotter is useful in applications such as biobanking, molecular medicine and biomarker discovery, where the sample is not required to go through repeated freeze-thaw cycles.

21 Jun 2011

Doctoral Student from EPFL Creates Industrial Robot

Research work done by a doctoral student at the Laboratory of Robotics Systems at EPFL resulted in the development of an industrial robot that was capable of a variable degree of freedom as required by the user.

20 Jun 2011