Exploring a distant moon often means trundling round its uniquely inhospitable floor, however on icy ocean moons like Saturn’s Enceladus, it could be higher to come back at issues from the underside up. This rover quickly to be examined in Antarctica may sooner or later roll alongside the underside of […]
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Earlier this month, on the WebSummit convention in Lisbon, D-Wave and Volkswagen teamed as much as handle a fleet of buses utilizing a brand new system that, amongst different issues, used D-Wave’s quantum expertise to assist generate probably the most environment friendly routes. Whereas D-Wave’s 2000Q solely performed a small […]
Aerial imagery is a standard asset in navy issues, however 3D maps could be tough to gather on brief discover with out specialised gear. This new photogrammetry approach from the Military Corps of Engineers, nonetheless, could make correct 3D maps from extraordinary aerial footage in simply minutes. Photogrammetry is the […]
SpaceX has confirmed that it ran a static fireplace take a look at of its Crew Dragon astronaut capsule launch escape system. That’s a key step that it wanted to run, and one that’s beneath particularly excessive scrutiny as a result of a static fireplace of its thrusters again in […]
[embedded content] MIT’s Biomimetics Robotics division took a complete herd of its new ‘mini cheetah’ robots out for a bunch demonstration on campus lately – and the result’s an lovely, spectacular show of the present state of robotic expertise in motion. The varsity’s college students are seen coordinating the actions […]
NASA is on the lookout for liquid gold on the Moon — not oil, however plain-old water. If we’re going to have a everlasting presence there, we’ll want it, so studying as a lot as we will about it’s essential. That’s why the company is sending a rover known as […]
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover should function by itself in a harsh setting, hundred of tens of millions of miles from the closest mechanic. However for now, it’s nonetheless in improvement at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab – and each milestone is a vital one. Together with supporting its personal weight, absolutely […]
Machine studying and AI could also be deployed on such grand duties as discovering exoplanets and creating photorealistic folks, however the identical methods even have some stunning functions in academia: DeepMind has created an AI system that helps students perceive and recreate fragmentary historic Greek texts on damaged stone tablets. […]
In the event you needed to slip a pair AAs into your smartphone each morning to examine your e mail, browse Instagram, and textual content your folks, chances are high the cellular revolution wouldn’t have been fairly so revolutionary. Luckily the rechargeable lithium-ion battery was invented — a decades-long job […]
NASA points a brand new formal request for information from trade particularly round spacesuits. The company is hoping to assemble data as a way to assist it work out a future path for acquisition of spacesuit manufacturing and companies from exterior trade sources. That doesn’t imply it’s outsourcing its spacesuit […]