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Liquid Robotics’ Hybrid Wave and Solar Propelled Unmanned Surface Vehicle to be Showcased at IMDEX 2013

WHO: Liquid Robotics, a global ocean data services provider and developer of the world's first wave and solar powered autonomous surface vehicles, with global headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

From Liquid Robotics 7 May 2013

Media Invited for NASA’s Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition

Fifty teams of undergraduate and graduate students from around the world will demonstrate their lunar excavator robots May 20 - 24 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

7 May 2013

Northrop Grumman, ADASI and AUVSI Honor Winners of UAV Innovation Challenge Flying Competition

Northrop Grumman Corporation presented awards to the winning teams of engineering students from the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) following the two-day Innovation Challenge flying competition for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) held April 23-24 in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.).

6 May 2013

New Report on Electric Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Electric Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) 2013-2023" report to their offering.

6 May 2013

Boise State Radar System Part of NASA’s Greenland Rover Robotic Mission

The same Boise State University technology used this year to measure snow accumulation and melt at Bogus Basin is on its way to Greenland to help answer questions about that country’s massive ice sheets.

4 May 2013

Satellites and Underwater Robots Track Atlantic Sturgeons

More than a century ago, an estimated 180,000 female Atlantic sturgeon arrived from the coast in the spring to spawn in the Delaware River and fishermen sought their caviar as a lucrative export to Europe. Overfishing contributed to steep population declines, however, and today numbers have dwindled to fewer than 300 adults.

4 May 2013

Soon, Collaboration Between Vehicles, Robots and Humans

You get into your car and ask it to get you home in time for the start of the big game, stopping off at your favorite Chinese restaurant on the way to grab some takeout.

4 May 2013

Student-Designed GROVER Robot to Roam Frigid Greenland Landscape

NASA's newest scientific rover is set for testing May 3 through June 8 in the highest part of Greenland. The robot known as GROVER, which stands for both Greenland Rover and Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research, will roam the frigid landscape collecting measurements to help scientists better understand changes in the massive ice sheet.

2 May 2013

New Market Research Report on Electric Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Electric Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) 2013-2023

2 May 2013

Wings of Robot Bird Flap Independently of Each Other

In this age of advanced technology, how hard could it be to develop a robotic bird that flies by flapping its wings? Despite the apparent simplicity of the idea, it's very hard—if you want the bird to actually fly. And how hard could it be to make a robot bird whose wings can flap independently of each other? So hard that it's been a breakthrough that's been out of reach for engineers—until now.

2 May 2013