News tagged with 'robot'. Found 30 tagged news.

European Space Mission to Mars Delayed by Two Years

Rome :: Italy | about 1 month ago

Posted by jzahir

Europe's flagship space project ExoMars which was to scour the surface of the Red Planet for signs of life has been delayed by at least two years due to burgeoning costs. The project was originally planned for execution in late 2013. It must now slip...

Tags: Mars, ESA, robot

A Robot's Biological Brain built out of Rat Neurons!

London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago

Posted by Majdy

Scientists from the University of Reading have built a robot's biological brain with rat neurons. The robot's controller is situated inside a small dish containing a pink broth of nutrients and antibiotics. Inside that pot, some 300,000 rat neurons have...

Tags: Robot, Neurons, Brain, Rat

Cyberkid fleshes out future of robotics

Tsukuba :: Japan | about 1 month ago

robot that looks and moves eerily like a human child is set to go into mass production. Like a creature out of Steven Spielberg's dark movie AI: Artificial Intelligence, the cyber girl, known as Repliee R-1, has flexible silicon skin, eyes that blink...

Tags: robot, brain, news, Japan, robot suit

Scripps robotics gets $80 million to find unexpected paths to fight disease

Cambridge :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago

The research involves throwing hundreds of thousands of chemicals against disease and cellular targets that are not fully understood, in the hopes of finding unexpected paths to treatments. Running the tests with a robot means that about 50 such attempts...

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Fast-expanding Aeon turns into holding firm

Tōkyō :: Japan | 3 months ago

In the organizational change, the firm, based in Chiba Prefecture, transferred its retail operations to a wholly owned unit of Aeon Retail Co. while it assumed management of its nearly 170 group companies as a holding firm. Aeon has been operating Jusco...

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Rat-brain robot helps Alzheimer's research

Reading :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago

A robot controlled by cells from a rat brain could help in the treatment of conditions such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's. The robot helps to explain how our memories work and how the brain stores specific pieces of data. Its only means of control is...

Tags: brain, robot, rat, neurons, biological brains, rat brains, Gordon

BBC News: Rat-brain robot aids memory study

Reading :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago

Dr Ben Whalley, from the University of Reading has carried out tests on the 'rat- brain-controlled' robot. A robot controlled by a blob of rat brain cells could provide insights into diseases such as Alzheimer's. Created at the University of Reading,...

Tags: brain, robot, rat, neurons

Robot submarine to explore world's deepest undersea volcanoes in the Caribbean

Palo Alto :: CA :: USA | 3 months ago

Posted by openborder

With the help of an autonomously controlled, robot submarine, scientists are all set to explore the world's deepest undersea volcanoes, which lie 6 km down in the Caribbean. According to a report by BBC News, the submarine, known as Autosub6000, will...

Tags: Robot, Undersea, Volcanoes

Truth about life on Mars moves closer as water found in soil sample

Tucson :: AZ :: USA | 3 months ago

Phoenix lander spacecraft has for the first time identified water in a sample of soil collected from the surface of Mars. Scientists will now begin studying the sample to see whether the planet was ever, or is, habitable. The craft previously had problems...

Tags: phoenix lander, mars, water, lander, spacecraft, soil, robot, news, life, scientists, phoenix, mission, planet

U.S. space dominance slips as others step up

Mumbai :: India | 4 months ago

The European Space Agency is building a roving robot to land on Mars. India recently launched a record 10 satellites into space on a single rocket...And as it does, America's long-held superiority in exploring, exploiting and commercializing "the final...

Tags: robot, mars