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Global Autopilot System Market Expected to Reach $4.1 Billion by 2020

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Autopilot System Market by Platform, by Component, by Application, by Geography, Do It Yourself Autopilot - Forecasts & Analysis (2014-2020)" report to their offering.

30 Jun 2015

MathWorks Announces Names of Qualified Teams for "Mission on Mars Robot Challenge" Finals

MathWorks today announced the names of the 12 qualified teams for the finals of its robotics competition. These 12 finalists emerged from a group of 220 participating teams and will compete in Lyon, on July 3rd, during the Innorobo tradeshow. Qualifying teams include: Adeline and her little green men, Jopimara, Cyborg, Vachefolle, Esig'inno AM & UROPE4MARS, iVengers, PMCLab, duckgo, Tabula Mater, The Planners, UTMars.

27 Jun 2015

NASA Awards $100,000 to Mountaineers Team for Completing Sample Return Robot Challenge Level 2

NASA has awarded $100,000 in prize money to the Mountaineers, a team from West Virginia University, Morgantown, for successfully completing Level 2 of the Sample Return Robot Challenge, part of the agency's Centennial Challenges prize program.

15 Jun 2015

Twenty Robotics Teams to Compete in NASA Sample Return Robot Challenge

Twenty robotics teams, ranging from university students to small businesses, are preparing to compete June 8-13 in the fourth running of the NASA Sample Return Robot Challenge for a prize purse of $1.5 million.

4 Jun 2015

Alabama Astrobotics Wins NASA Robotic Mining Competition

The University of Alabama is used to having teams that win national championships. Alabama Astrobotics, a robotics team made up of Shelton State and UA students, added a different kind of title to the University’s tally with its recent performance at this year’s Robotic Mining Competition hosted  by NASA.

4 Jun 2015

NASA Places Additional Order for Medigus' Micro ScoutCam for Robotic Refueling Mission

Medigus Ltd., a medical device company developing minimally invasive endosurgical tools and a leader in direct visualization technology, announced today that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded them with an additional supply order of Medigus' micro ScoutCamTM technology, consisting of specially designed miniature video cameras and advance video processing equipment, for use on NASA's Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM).

3 Jun 2015

Four Spacecraft Flown in Tight Formation for Mission to Understand Magnetic Reconnection

It was unprecedented developing a mission that could fly four identically equipped spacecraft in a tight formation and take measurements 100 times faster than any previous space mission -- an achievement enabled in part by four NASA-developed technologies that in some cases took nearly 10 years to mature.

29 Apr 2015

Annual NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge Takes Place in Huntsville, Alabama

Buckle up, because it’s back… two days of intense student racing kicks-off April 17-18 for the annual NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge.

20 Apr 2015

Vanderbilt Mini-V Team Captures Top Prize for AGSE Robot in Payload Design Category at NASA Competition

Vanderbilt’s Aerospace Club, which has swept the annual event the last two years, put in a strong showing this year at the competition, which took place on April 11 at Bragg Farms in Toney, Alabama, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. A total of 31 university teams participated.

20 Apr 2015

Two Guiness World Record Titles for Kirobo, the Robot Astronaut

Dentsu Inc. (President & CEO: Tadashi Ishii; Head Office: Tokyo; Capital: 74,609.81 million yen) announced today that Kirobo, the robot astronaut developed under the KIBO ROBOT PROJECT, a joint research project carried out in collaboration with the University of Tokyo’s Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, ROBO GARAGE Co., Ltd., Toyota Motor Corporation, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), has been awarded two GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS titles.

30 Mar 2015

Aerospace Robotics News

Global Autopilot System Market Expected to Reach $4.1 Billion by 2020

MathWorks Announces Names of Qualified Teams for "Mission on Mars Robot Challenge" Finals

NASA Awards $100,000 to Mountaineers Team for Completing Sample Return Robot Challenge Level 2

Twenty Robotics Teams to Compete in NASA Sample Return Robot Challenge

Alabama Astrobotics Wins NASA Robotic Mining Competition

NASA Places Additional Order for Medigus' Micro ScoutCam for Robotic Refueling Mission

Four Spacecraft Flown in Tight Formation for Mission to Understand Magnetic Reconnection

Annual NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge Takes Place in Huntsville, Alabama

Vanderbilt Mini-V Team Captures Top Prize for AGSE Robot in Payload Design Category at NASA Competition

Two Guiness World Record Titles for Kirobo, the Robot Astronaut

What This Drone Detected Over Greenland Has Climate Scientists Rethinking Everything

NASA’s Perseverance Captures Rare Dust Devil Collision on Mars

AI Helps Scientists Detect Avocado Oil Adulteration—No Prior Data Needed

NASA’s Perseverance Rover is Testing Spacesuit Materials on Mars

Open-Source 3D-Printed Robot for Automated Material Synthesis

Why Are There Robots in Space?

An Introduction to Actuators

Your Guide to Smarter Manufacturing with Machine Learning

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Robot Chef: The Future of Automated Meal Preparation

Tiny Robotic Crab: The Smallest-Ever Remote-Controlled Walking Robot

Resurrecting Ancient Cephalopods with Robots