Future Robot Space Explorers, Technological Developments |
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Future Robot Space Explorers, Technological Developments |
 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 ************************* Exploring Caves with Hopping Microbots Astrobiology Magazine Dec. 8, 2005 ************************* 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 -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. 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 no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Dec 23 2005, 02:15 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
A novel astronaut training system, innovative planetary landing technology and hydrogen gas storage in 0.1-mm micro-spheres are just some of the innovative ideas presented during the first Innovation Triangle Initiative (ITI) Final Presentation Day (FPD) at ESTEC.
Full story: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMW058A9HE_Benefits_0.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. 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 no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Dec 23 2005, 05:27 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
Interesting Variable Geometry "Walkers"
Science Article - ignore the unfortunate War of the Worlds tie in - Check out links at bottom of article Tet Walker Homepage A.N.T.S. Homepage - turn the sound down before clicking on it - it's a bit, um, graphic heavy as well. -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Dec 23 2005, 12:06 PM
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On the excellent " The Planets " DVD set of BBC, Steve Squyres describe a robotic mission to the moon Europa... this is illustrated by a great animation showing a landing on Europa, melt down through the icy crust and underwater movement of a futuristic robotic probe
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Dec 23 2005, 02:24 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Dec 23 2005, 07:06 AM) On the excellent " The Planets " DVD set of BBC, Steve Squyres describe a robotic mission to the moon Europa... this is illustrated by a great animation showing a landing on Europa, melt down through the icy crust and underwater movement of a futuristic robotic probe  On the PBS special Life Beyond Earth, produced by Timothy Ferris, they had a segment depicting a lander on Europa and its ice-burrowing cryobot, which you can see a still of here: http://www.pbs.org/lifebeyondearth/alone/europa.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. 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 no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jan 11 2006, 02:28 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Robonauts
Boston Globe January 9, 2006 ************************* The new robot designs for space exploration are part of a broader shift toward a vision of robots that are partners, not simply remote-controlled probes. At the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, robots are developing the skills they'll need to be useful to people. The Mertz robot recognizes faces and distinguishes... http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedire...sID=5198&m=7610 -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. 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 no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jan 16 2006, 04:39 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Robot
http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1834.html Will robots one day rule the world? For decades this notion has both fascinated and terrified humans, our hungry imagination fed by Hollywood blockbusters and sci-fi novels. Now a new generation of robots promises a breakthrough in the world of Artificial Intelligence as they become capable of cognitive thought processes. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. 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 no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jan 16 2006, 06:24 PM
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There are three futures of robotics:
1. Robots will eventually take over and kill us off. 2. Robots will forever be our slaves. 3. Humans will become robots. After a technological singularity anyone of these could happen. I personally think the 3rd is most likely. First, A artificial intelligence could be many times smarter then a person, yet still not sentient! Let me explain: urgers are needed for consciousness and sentience, if you have no desires you will just sit there like dumb sh!t and do absolutely nothing unless commanded to, basically like our present computers do. Us humans are full of urges but all of them we were designed with or designed with a propensity for (either by evolution or some deity what ever you want to believe). A well made AI will be designed with one urge: follow human orders!, it will do nothing else no matter how smart it is, so why would it rebel against its masters that it loves so much? No matter how stupid us humans are it will still do as we command, like a mother loving a retarded child. Second, if technology was available that could make you immortal, to allow you to feel and think things a million times better then your present body and mind could ever imagine, would you take up the offer? I sure as hell would, and those that reject the technology, specifically militantly will have little chance of victory against robotic armies controlled by cyborgs with far greater strategic and tactical planning abilities then any talking hairless monkey has. The rich and the powerful will likely be the first to have access to such technology, and since they already rule the world as is, they likely will not lose control of it simply because they upgraded their minds and bodies. Now imagine space travel without human form. Human space travel requires huge logistic to support organic bodies that need food, water and air. A robot will need only a source of electricity and a minimal of elements (for repairs and replication). Imagine sending robots to another star system at sub-light speeds, highly intelligent robots that are either non-sentient or carry the emulated minds of humans, they can spend hundred or even thousand of years cruising with ease. Time is nothing when you’re immortal and have a controllable sense of boredom. They will set up a base at their target star system on anything, even something as small and inhabitable as an asteroid, set up communications and then you can upload your mind there at the speed of light. No massive colony ships, no need for faster then light travel, no need for livable conditions. If some futurists are right unmanned space travel will be the only and best means of accessing space by the end of this century. |
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Jan 20 2006, 03:00 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Spacecraft, heal thyself
Building spacecraft is a tough job. They are precision pieces of engineering that have to survive in the airless environment of space, where temperatures can swing from hundreds of degrees Celsius to hundreds of degree below zero in moments. Once a spacecraft is in orbit, engineers have virtually no chance of repairing anything that breaks. But what if a spacecraft could fix itself? Full story: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMQKMMZCIE_index_0.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. 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 no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jan 26 2006, 05:24 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
CRAYFISH HELP NASA EXPLORE COSMOS (Space & Astronomy News, 24/1/06)
Crayfish don't just blunder around in the dark bouncing off rocks but use a sophisticated sense of touch to form detailed mental images of their surroundings, an Australian researcher says. http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/space/S...ish_1553770.htm -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. 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 no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Feb 2 2006, 09:35 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Physics, abstract
physics/0602003 From: Sergi Valverde [view email] Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 12:07:27 GMT (742kb) Emergent Behavior in Agent Networks: Self-Organization in Wasp and Open Source Communities Authors: Sergi Valverde, Guy Theraulaz, Jacques Gautrais, Vincent Fourcassie, Ricard V. Sole Comments: 12 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in the IEEE Intelligent Systems Special Issue on Self-Management through Self-Organization (2006) Subj-class: Physics and Society Understanding the complex dynamics of communities of software developers requires a view of such organizations as a network of interacting agents involving both goals and constraints. Beyond their special features, these systems display some overall patterns of organization not far from the ones seen in other types of organizations, including both natural and artificial entities. By looking at both software developers and social insects as agents interacting in a complex network, we found common statistical patterns of organization. Here, simple self-organizing processes leading to the formation of hierarchies in wasp colonies and open source communities are studied. Our analysis further validates simple models of formation of wasp hierarchies based on individual learning. In the open source community, a few members are clearly distinguished from the rest of the community with different reinforcement mechanisms. http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0602003 -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. 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 no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Feb 13 2006, 04:57 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Thinking out of the box: how to challenge conventional space systems
Spacecraft must evolve. Advancing space research is no longer just about swapping old components for new, now it is about entirely rethinking what a space mission can do and how it achieves its goals. World experts are gathering at ESA on 21 February to exchange new ideas and stimulate unconventional thinking about space systems. Full story: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMBYTLVGJE_index_0.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. 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 no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Mar 10 2006, 03:55 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Robotic 'pack mule' displays stunning reflexes
NewScientist.com news service Mar. 3, 2006 BigDog, a nimble, four-legged robot, is so surefooted it can negotiate steep slopes, cross rocky ground, and recover its balance even after being given a hefty kick. The machine, which moves like a cross between a goat and a pantomime horse, is being developed as a robotic pack mule for the US... http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedire...sID=5350&m=7610 -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. 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 no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Mar 28 2006, 03:46 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Next on NOVA: "The Great Robot Race"
http://www.pbs.org/nova/darpa Broadcast: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT (NOVA airs Tuesdays on PBS at 8 p.m. Check your local listings as dates and times may vary.) Join NOVA for an exclusive backstage pass to the DARPA Grand Challenge--a raucous race for robotic, driverless vehicles sponsored by the Pentagon, which awards a $2 million purse to the winning team. Armed with artificial intelligence, laser-guided vision, GPS navigation, and 3-D mapping systems, the contenders are some of the world's most advanced robots. Yet even their formidable technology and mechanical prowess may not be enough to overcome the grueling 130-mile course through Nevada's desert terrain. From concept to construction to the final competition, "The Great Robot Race" delivers the absorbing inside story of clever engineers and their unyielding drive to create a champion, capturing the only aerial footage that exists of the Grand Challenge. Here's what you'll find on the companion Web site: PROFILES & INTERVIEW Meet the Teams Watch video clips and learn more about "Sandstorm," "Ghostrider," and 10 other racing robots. Cars That Drive Themselves In a lively interview, Stanford's Sebastian Thrun shares his excitement about real-world applications for autonomous vehicles. VIDEO & SLIDE SHOW Watch the Program The hour-long program will be available to view online starting on March 29. Video Extras See a wild and bumpy Grand Challenge practice run in the Mojave, find out how the motorcycle robot balances itself, and more. What Robots See In this slide show, look out through the "eyes" of computer-driven vehicles. Also, Links & Books, the Teacher's Guide, the program transcript, and more. http://www.pbs.org/nova/darpa -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. 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 no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Apr 30 2006, 05:52 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
Um, yikes?
Engineers Unveil Futuristic Unmanned 'Crusher' Vehicle PHYSORG  I see they don't think that the rocker-bogie system is the best, but Im not going to be the one to tell them. -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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