Valkyrie to Jupiter
NASA’s Astrobiology Science Conference in Atlanta intends to get an autonomous robot ready to visit the icebound sea of Jupiter’s moon Europa, cut through the icy crust, and explore the waters below. Goal is to send robot Valkyrie to Europa, where it will use lasers to cut through the ice to explore the waters below, collecting samples, in search of life.Stone Aerospace, has been working on the six-foot by ten inch robotic cylinder called Valkyrie. (via Inventor preps robot to cut through ice on Europa)
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Louis Armstrong in his typical backstage attire, New York 1954; photographed by Carole Reiff
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The Future of Robotics: Fast Cheap and Out of Control
Much as the computing industry progressed from a mainframe to a PC to a mobile stage, with each stage marking bigger improvements in computing power while shrinking in size, the robotics industry could be headed for the same trajectory. What this means is the day is coming soon when each of us could have teams of personal robots that follow us around in our daily lives, doing everything from cleaning our toilets to cleaning our arteries, and communicating with each other as part of swarm intelligence. That’s a radical idea, but no more radical an idea than that one day each of us would have a personal computer. Remember the skeptics who once doubted why anyone would ever purchase a personal computer.
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