ROBOTICS News, Dec 26, 2011

The Inspiring, Nerdy Toys of A. C. Gilbert Scientific American By Rose Eveleth | December 24, 2011 | 1 Before video games and roboticscompetitions, toys were much simpler: girls got dolls; boys got model trains and bicycles. Toys that promoted learning and experimentation were rare until one inventor,... See all stories on this topic »

Julia Loeb, retirement can't stop robotics team leader: Community Heroes 2011 Plain Dealer (blog) By James Ewinger, The Plain Dealer Julia Loeb, Community Hero Retired teacher, Julia Loeb continues to run the robotics team at East Tech High School even after her retirement. Watch videoElectricity runs the robots that Cleveland's East Tech High ... See all stories on this topic »

France creates the cutest telepresence robot on the planet DVICE The E-One was developed by French robotics company EOS Innovation as a means to monitor and aid the elderly, or simply keep watch over your home remotely. The twist here is that is puts yourvideo image in a head-like structure, giving anyone ... See all stories on this topic »

Hack a Roomba Wall Street Journal (blog) ... robotics program, and the Brainlink was developed with the assistance of the university's CREATE lab. (CREATE's mission, in part, is “furthering Human-Robot Interaction,” a phrase with “Battlestar Galactica” overtones, no?) Video after the jump: See all stories on this topic »

Japanese Roboticists Are Building the Tallest Humanoid Ever Popular Science Hajime Sakamoto, president of the humanoid-robot-building Hajime Research Institute, already has a 7-foot-tall humanoid robot, which you can see kicking a soccer ball in the awesomely soundtracked video below. This one will be nearly twice as tall, ... See all stories on this topic » Popular Science

Telemedicine to allow analysis for strokes Jackson Hole News&Guide The telemedicine program will rely on a device with advanced video technology to connect doctors and patients over long distances. The hospital received its “robot” earlier this month and plans to start using it in February. In the meantime, St. John's ... See all stories on this topic »

Adept's Hidden Value: Its Patent Portfolio Seeking Alpha Adept Technology's hidden value lies in 20 years of experience with automation and over a dozen patents with smart camera systems used in robotic automation. The XBOX 360 Kinect from Microsoft (MSFT) uses digital camera recognition to play a video game ... See all stories on this topic »

Mint Automated Floor Cleaner Review The Gadgeteer by Bill Kuch on December 22, 2011 · 3 comments OK, I'll admit to a fascination withrobotic floor cleaners. I've owned a Roomba since 2006, so when I had the opportunity to review the Mint Automated Floor Cleaner from Evolution Robotics, ... See all stories on this topic » The Gadgeteer

Prototype Asterisk Robot From Japan Has Got Mad Moves (Video) Geeky gadgets Sluggish economy or not, they still put in the hours to develop new types of robots. Seen here is Asterisk, which named after its shape, a six-limbed insectoid prototype that's being tweaked at the Arai Robotics Lab. Japan needs its robots though. ... See all stories on this topic »

Domestic drone use on the rise; where's NLR's? Arkansas Times (blog) Ryan Calo, the Director for Privacy and Robotics at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, wrote in a report that “these machines are disquieting. Virtually any robot can engender a certain amount of discomfort, let alone one associated ... See all stories on this topic » Arkansas Times (blog)

CES setting up its own startup alley CNET All told, more than 80 young companies will be on hand, representing fields such as robotics, energy, digital health, gaming, and so on. Eureka Park is CES' first "big attempt at attracting startups" in 10 years, said Karen Chupka, ... See all stories on this topic »

The Engineer's Top 10 Technologies of 2011 The Engineer (blog) It will be a some time before this technology filters through to robots operating in the real world but cracking energy autonomy will meet one of the biggest challenges in therobotics world today – even if it does raise some slightly frightening ... See all stories on this topic » The Engineer (blog)

Pro-Ron Paul PAC to combat 'racist claims' in new web advertisement The Hill (blog) It's not like Cain with texts to a mistress, or a disorganized Gingrich, or an oops Perry, or therobotics of Bachmann & Romney. People have read his books, played his videos, and researched his articles. The man is the furthest thing in the world from ... See all stories on this topic »

Different dreams, startlingly brought to reality, but still mostly futuristic ... Innovation Investment Journal The website of the Singularity Hub blog is where you can find blog postings giving details of his talk: it is in fact an interesting news site with regular coverage of many innovation topics includingrobotics and biotechnology. ... See all stories on this topic »

Dr. Teresa Prendergast: Garden City is Really a Choice School District Patch.com Upcoming plans also include Robotics (fourth and fifth grade) offered through the Winter Program for Kids (January, 2012) and a college essay writing course, geared toward the college application process (summer, 2012). For more information about the ... See all stories on this topic »

More Than Fun and Games Chier Learning Officer In Humana's Winning Major program, teams of five salespeople act collectively as a salesperson for a robotics company. They handle three clients over three virtual years in three rounds of computer-based simulations held in a physical classroom. ... See all stories on this topic » Chier Learning Officer

Colorado business briefs, 12/20 Denver Post Hair Sciences Center of Colorado, a Denver-based hair restoration practice, has brought the world's first robotic-based device in the treatment of hair loss and hair restoration to its clinic. The Artas System is a FDA-cleared, physician-controlled, ... See all stories on this topic »

Parkville Students Hold Candlelight Memorial for Classmate Patch.com Zahara Kazmi knew Ryan through the school robotics team, where he was interested in mechanics and programming. "I'll always remember Ryan for his questions — the last day we were fighting over a tutorial question, I said goodbye to him and I left," ... See all stories on this topic »

Study Shows AT&T's LTE Network Is Faster Than Verizon's — For Now Wired (blog) Sprint will begin rolling out its 4G LTE network in mid to late 2012. Christina is a Wired.com staff writer covering Apple, robotics, and everything in between. She's also written for Gizmodo and Wired magazine. Check out her Google+ profile here. See all stories on this topic » Wired (blog)

Review: Legend by Marie Lu Is Believable YA Fiction Wired (blog) Kathy Ceceri is a senior editor at GeekMom.com, science craft teacher and homeschooling mom. She is also the author and illustrator of activity books for kids. She is currently at work on a book about robotics for Nomad Press. See all stories on this topic » Wired (blog)

Every Team Should Have a Devil's Advocate Gainesville Sun This interview with Ori Hadomi, CEO of Mazor Robotics, a medical technology company based in Israel, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Ori Hadomi, the chief executive of MazorRobotics, a medical technology company based in Israel, ... See all stories on this topic »

Video: Kombusto, MIT's Interactive Dragon Robot - IEEE Spectrum IEEE Spectrum's robotics blog, featuring news, articles, and videos on robots, humanoids, automation, mechatronics, artificial intelligence, robot kits, and more. ... spectrum.ieee.org/.../video-kombusto-mit-interactive-dragon-r...

Lego robotics competition draws creativity, excitement (video) - Post ... Lego robotics competition draws creativity, excitement (video) - The Post-Bulletin is Rochester and South East, Minnesota's number one local news, sports, ... postbulletin.com/news/stories/display.php?id=1479061

Science News Daily || Video Friday: Hexapod Robot Transforms Into ... The MorpHex in the early stages of the project. (Credit: Kare Halvorsen ) In the world of robots, there are those that fall into the cute category, and then there are ... www.sciencenewsdaily.org/robotics-news/cluster126037058/

Cool New Robot App Infographic (Video) | Robots Dreams The Robots App Store put together an interesting and thought provoking .... The Robots Dreamsvideo channel on YouTube includes new robot product news, ... www.robots-dreams.com/.../cool-new-robot-app-infographic-...

Urban Robotics Extends Octree Format to Point ... - Yahoo! News News: Urban Robotics' Highly Scalable 3D Octree-based Format Lays ... Discover news, videosand much more based on what your friends are reading and ... news.yahoo.com/urban-robotics-extends-octree-format-point-...

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SPACE, Astronomy News, Dec 26, 2011

NASA Finds A Holiday Wreath In Space Forbes The image was discovered by the Wide-Field Infared Survey Explorer (WISE), which scans the night sky for lights in the infrared range to discover more about different aspects of astronomical objects. If you were to travel to the nebula, it would sadly ... See all stories on this topic »

International Space Station snaps photo of Christmas Comet Lovejoy The State Column NASA astronaut Don Pettit, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers of the European Space Agency docked at the orbiting laboratory late Thursday, the latest transition to take place on the orbiting spacestation. ... See all stories on this topic »

Rare Galaxy From The “Dawn of Time” Photographed The Inquisitr Most astronomers estimate the universe at being around 13.7 billion years old. So it is truly exciting when, with a little help from Earth and Space bound telescopesNASA can get a picture of a blob shaped galaxy believed to be about 12.9 billion light ... See all stories on this topic »

Astronomer doesn't let disability hold him back Times and Transcript As I grew up I had an interest in astronomy but because I realized at a young age that I wasn't going to be able to drive a car so there was very little chance I was ever going to go into space, I put it aside." Fast forward a number of years and when ... See all stories on this topic »

Soyuz Rocket's Comet-like Re-Entry Captured on Video Universe Today An animation of that event is also posted below. Nancy Atkinson is Universe Today's Senior Editor. She also is the project manager for the 365 Days of Astronomy podcast, works with Astronomy Cast and is host of the NASA Lunar Science Institute podcast. ... See all stories on this topic » Universe Today

Could Mars and Moon Harbor Alien Artifacts? Leading Astrophysicists Says "Yes" The Daily Galaxy (blog) Existing searchable databases from astronomy, biology, earth and planetary sciences all offer low-cost opportunities to seek a footprint of extraterrestrial technology. Davies and Wagner reason that the rapidly-expanding database of the photographic ... See all stories on this topic »

Our expanded visions Hindustan Times Similarly, pictures from the frontier of science, showing such wonders as Earth-like planets, go beyond previous astronomy and make outer space seem close. This sense of new images hitting our eyes from everywhere is one of the most remarkable aspects ... See all stories on this topic »

Hunting for new planets on at Abu observatory Times of India The Indian space programme, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary in November 2013, had its early beginnings at the PRL. Speaking to TOI, Abhijit Chakraborty of PRL's astronomy and astrophysics group, who is leading a team of five young scientists ... See all stories on this topic »

Keck, Subaru find rare galaxy Hawaii 24/7 (press release) NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes were used to measure the galaxy's high star production rate, equivalent to about 100 suns per year. For comparison, our Milky Way galaxy is about five times larger and a hundred times more massive than ... See all stories on this topic »

New Galaxy, Which Churns Out Stars Really Fast! French Tribune It was further revealed by Mark Dickinson; from the National OpticalAstronomy Observatory that this is the first time such a bright galaxy has been found, despite studies being done on it since years. It is essential that further studies regarding the ... See all stories on this topic » French Tribune

Space News: The night after Christmas sky show Lake County News Rarely can so much amateur astronomy be done with so little effort. Some people find the night after Christmas to be a bit of a letdown. This year, it's not so bad. Dr. Tony Phillips works for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. See all stories on this topic »

Offbeat: The tale of the calming paw The Express Tribune The Mayan civilisation, which reached its peak between 250 and 900AD, was fascinated by astronomy, mathematics and the cycles of time. Its Long Count calendar began in 3114BC and moves forward in 394-year periods known as Baktuns. ... See all stories on this topic » The Express Tribune

NASA's Kepler finds Earth-size worlds orbiting another star NASA's Kepler space telescope has found the first confirmed Earth-size planets ...of interstellar space gives astronomers confidence many more such planets are.... You can follow his frequent status updates at the CBS News Space page. ... news.cnet.com/.../first-confirmed-earth-size-worlds-found-orbi...

Hubble Repairman Grunsfeld To Lead NASA Science ... - Space News Physicist John Grunsfeld will take over as head of NASA's Science Mission Directorate effective Jan. 4, putting the for. ... Space News Logo. Loading ... www.spacenews.com/.../111219-grunsfeld-lead-sci-mission-di...

NASA - Goddard Year In Review: Astrophysics Astronomers have pushed NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to its limits by finding what is likely to be the most distant object ever seen in the universe. ... www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/.../2011-astro.html

The Chicago Astronomer - NASA Considers Sending a Telescope to ... They envision the telescope's usefulness to kick in around 5 Astronomical Units ( AU), ... Exploration, --------------------, - Astronomy & Space News, --- NASA News.... astronomer.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=nasa...3591

Space and Earth Sciences News :: NASA's RXTE detect 'heartbeat ... (PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of astronomers has identified a candidate for the smallest-known black hole using data from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing ... www.news-about-space.org/astronomy-news/cluster12622506/

NASA's Kepler finds Earth-size worlds orbiting ... - CNET News.com NASA's Kepler space telescope has found the first confirmed Earth-size planets orbiting another star, astronomers announced Tuesday, a major milestone in an ... news.cnet.com/.../nasas-kepler-finds-earth-size-worlds-orbiting...

NASA's Kepler finds Earth-sized planets, smallest yet - National ... Space News Examiner ... Well, the bad news is that these two planets are just about incapable of supporting life as both ... in that this is the first time thatastronomers have been able to detect planets smaller than the earth orbiting another star. ... www.examiner.com/.../nasa-s-kepler-finds-earth-sized-planets-...

NASA Considers 7-Day Mission to Europa | David Reneke | Space ... Join my newsletter to stay up to date on all the latest space news. ... David Reneke | Space and Astronomy News ... NASA Considers 7 Day Mission to Europa. ... www.davidreneke.com/nasa-considers-7-day-mission-to-europa/

NASA's RXTE Detects 'Heartbeat' Of Smallest ... - Message To Eagle MessageToEagle.com - An international team of astronomers has identified a candidate ... Home Space Astronomy News NASA's RXTE Detects 'Heartbeat' Of... www.messagetoeagle.com/.../818-nasas-rxte-detects-heartbeat-...

NASA captures image of 'Wreath nebula' | KING5.com Seattle Just in time for Christmas! NASA astronomers have come across a new image from outer space that some say resembles a wreath. www.king5.com/.../NASA-astronomers-discover-outer-space-...

No Doomsday Supernova in 2012, Says NASA : Discovery News In an impromptu public space service announcement on Friday, NASA has ... went on the record to say: "...astronomers can say with certainty that there is no ... news.discovery.com/.../no-doomsday-supernova-in-2012-says...

AstroSpaceNow.com - NASA EDGE:2011 Recap / NASACast ... NASA EDGE combines recreation and research as they look back over 2011. ...the latest news, buzz and resources about astronomy and space exploration ... podcasts.astrospacenow.com/episode.php?view=6797

First Earth-sized Planet Identified, Astronomers Announce | Space ... The latest news and info on Space and Space Exploration ... Kepler mission, a $591 million telescope administered through NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in... spacenewscenter.com/first-earth-sized-planet-identified-astron...

Physicist and Former Astronaut John Grunsfeld to Head NASA ... Grunsfeld currently serves as the deputy director of the Space Telescope Science Institute in ... and in the emerging field of exoplanet studies with specific interest in future astronomical instrumentation. ... News from Commercial Space Watch ... www.astrobiology.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=39382

NASA: No Impact Expected From Soyuz Mishap NASA officials say a Soyuz 2.1b rocket crash today should not impact International Space Station ... Breaking news and articles on Space andAstronomy. ... www.yesitekhub.com/index.php?option...

Annotated Listing of Astronomy Apps for Smart Phones and Tablets ... Nasa Earth & Space Science Education News - Upcoming edicational programs,... An annotated overview of 98 astronomy applications for smart phones and ... www.smdeponews.org/.../annotated-listing-of-astronomy-apps...

Mars-bound rover begins research in space - Astronomy Magazine Home » News & Observing » Astronomy News » Mars-bound rover begins research in ... NASA's car-sized Curiosity rover has begun monitoring spaceradiation ... www.astronomy.com/~/link.aspx?_id=71dd4f61-9d70...

Shell Galaxy NGC 7600, Nasa Image, Space Shuttle, Astronomy ... NASA Space Information,Shuttle Station,Climate Change,Earth Moon Mars,Solar System · NASA Image NASA Astronomy Picture NASA News Global Climate ... nasa-image.blogspot.com/2011/12/shell-galaxy-ngc-7600.html

A Galaxy Cluster Gets Sloshed - Space Newsfeed The most comprehensive space news service available .... Galaxy · NASA To Support IU Astronomer's Quest To Develop Largest-Ever Star Formation Database... www.spacenewsfeed.co.uk/.../10435-a-galaxy-cluster-gets-slos...

NASA Mars-Bound Rover Begins Research in Space « AstroNews AstroNews is an astronomy and spaceflight-related website providing the latestnews and information from around the world. ... NASA's car-sized Curiosity rover has begun monitoring space radiation during its 8-month trip from Earth to Mars. ... astronewsus.wordpress.com/.../nasa-mars-bound-rover-begins-...

NASA to Announce Discovery of New Alien ... - e! Science News NASA to Announce Discovery of New Alien Planets Tuesday. Monday, December 19, 2011 - 16:00 in Astronomy & Space. NASA will reveal the latest finds in its ... esciencenews.com/.../nasa.announce.discovery.new.alien.plane...

Hubble Repairman Grunsfeld to Lead NASA Science ... - Space.com NASA has appointed physicist and former astronaut John Grunsfeld as ... in x-ray and gamma-ray astronomy before joining the NASA astronaut corps in 1992. ...This story was provided by Space News, dedicated to covering all aspects of the... www.space.com/13981-nasa-science-mission-directorate-hubb...

What's On Astronomy.FM ~ Wednesday thru Thursday | Astronomy.FM Folks are NASA are searching, because safety in the skies means also ...Dickson: A weekly astronomy and Space news review, with a uniquely Irish viewpoint. ... astronomy.fm/.../whats-on-astronomy-fm-wednesday-thru-thu...

Astrophysicist John Grunsfeld to Head NASA Science Directorate All Space Media in one place with hourly updates... Astronomy. Latest outerspace and science news, NASA information. exclusive solar system Images, ... www.bankesms.com/index.php?option...

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