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Noninvasive Technique Enables People to Control Flying Robots Using Their Mind

Researchers in the University of Minnesota’s College of Science and Engineering have developed a new noninvasive system that allows people to control a flying robot using only their mind. The study goes far beyond fun and games and has the potential to help people who are paralyzed or have neurodegenerative diseases.

6 Jun 2013

Inexpensive, Autonomous Robotic Scouts for Firefighters

Engineers in the Coordinated Robotics Lab at the University of California, San Diego, have developed new image processing techniques for rapid exploration and characterization of structural fires by small Segway-like robotic vehicles.

6 Jun 2013

Unmanned, Globoid Uni-Copter to Monitor Environmental Pollution

UNIST developed an unmanned, globoid uni-copter to monitor disasters and environmental pollution.

6 Jun 2013

Miniature Unmanned Flying Machines to Spy on Hurricanes

Kamran Mohseni envisions a day when the unmanned vehicles in his laboratory at the University of Florida will swarm over, under and through hurricanes to help predict the strength and path of the storms.

5 Jun 2013

ASV and MOST Win Contracts to Develop Long Endurance Marine Unmanned Surface Vehicles

The next generation of ocean-going robotic vehicles will be developed by two cutting-edge technology companies from the South Coast of England, working with the UK’s National Oceanography Centre.

5 Jun 2013

NASA TV to Cover Docking of Automated Transfer Vehicle Cargo Craft with International Space Station

NASA Television will provide live coverage in June of the launch and docking of the European Space Agency's (ESA) fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo craft (ATV-4) to the International Space Station and the departure of a Russian Progress resupply ship from the orbiting laboratory.

3 Jun 2013

Northrop Grumman and NASA Continue to Share Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft for Science Missions

Northrop Grumman Corporation and NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center extended the NASA Space Act Agreement and will continue sharing Northrop Grumman-produced Global Hawk unmanned aircraft for science missions and flight demonstrations, including hurricane surveillance, atmospheric research and exploration of new mission capabilities.

1 Jun 2013