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post Dec 12 2005, 08:29 PM
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Robotic 'spiders' could be the key to building large-scale structures in space,
according to ESA's Advanced Concepts Team. The tiny mechanical spiders would
inch their way across large nets of fabric in space performing small tasks or
lining up to create an antenna or some other structure.

Full story:

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMHVXVLWFE_index_0.html


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Exploring Caves with Hopping Microbots

Astrobiology Magazine Dec. 8, 2005
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NASA-funded researchers are
developing "hopping microbots"
capable of exploring hazardous
terrain, including underground caves
and one day, to search for life
below the surface of...

http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedire...sID=5103&m=7610


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I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard,
and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does
not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is
indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have
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- ljk4-1   Future Robot Space Explorers   Dec 12 2005, 08:29 PM
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