robotics

Hi, I found a big document (297 pages, 72 MBytes) about the Jeffery Land Torpedo, developed in 1941-1943 (i did not read every page...). Copy-pasteing the link from National Archives of Australia does not work (i.e. the pasted link points to a "session expired" page), so below there is the link...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9345693/Ark-Scientists-want-store-animal-sperm-egg-samples-MOON.html https://aeroconf.org/

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw8kRZEvh_s

From last October: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2020/10/07/mystery-deepens-around-unmanned-spy-boat-washed-up-in-scotland/?sh=c25f756541f3 https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/unmanned-spy-vessel-washes-up-in-scotland/

In a way, a cousin to DARPA's Upward Falling Payload.

https://spacenews.com/china-is-aiming-to-attract-partners-for-an-international-lunar-research-station/ https://spacenews.com/russia-china-to-sign-agreement-on-international-lunar-research-station/

https://www.space.com/ai-mars-robot-dogs-agu View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOlF9DXyJdw

Now it has reached Mars orbit it might as well have its own thread. View: https://twitter.com/PRCMarsRover/status/1358403478284947459 View: https://twitter.com/Cosmic_Penguin/status/1359490712786460673

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/drl/publications/papers/ICRA05b.pdf

Designed for fun The Pursuit Bot, with the look of one six-legged yellow spider and the size of a cat, designed to neutralize dangerous lifeforms operating in industrial environments. Mark-9 was built of electroactive polymers and carbon composites, its outer surface coated with graphene...

ASTROBOTIC AWARDED $199.5 MILLION CONTRACT TO DELIVER NASA MOON ROVER JUNE 11, 2020 Astrobotic’s Griffin lunar lander to carry the NASA VIPER mission to the south pole of the Moon in 2023, as a precursor to a human landing Pittsburgh, PA – Astrobotic, the world’s leading lunar logistics service...

Came across this while researching something totally different. This project was first proposed by Dr. Frank Malina (one of the founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory) in late 1960 as an ideal candidate for the first activity of the just formed Academy of Astronautics (now known as the...

As a kid in the 60s I remember being fascinated by the guest vehicle in the second THUNDERBIRDS episode Pit of Peril The walking US army vehicle also appeared in annuals and TV21 comic and a porcelain replica appeared a few years back. Watching the video again it would make David A furious but...

With Mars Methane Mystery Unsolved, Curiosity Serves Scientists a New One: Oxygen For the first time in the history of space exploration, scientists have measured the seasonal changes in the gases that fill the air directly above the surface of Gale Crater on Mars. As a result, they noticed...

https://spacenews.com/mars-sample-return-mission-plans-begin-to-take-shape/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/technology/neuralink-elon-musk.html

First directly mentioned on SPF back in 2017: Most recent development: https://news.usni.org/2019/03/13/navy-wants-ten-ship-3b-unmanned-experimental-ghost-fleet Likely related in some way to the CARACaS program.

https://www.space.com/42511-hal-9000-inspired-ai-test-simulation.html Famous last words?

Via Slashdot: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/2172141/chinas-brightest-children-are-being-recruited-develop-ai-killer

I looked for any previous posts on swarming quadcopters but I didn't find anything. Kind of odd that nobody has posted a video on those. Here is the Navy's rendition of swarming drones. At the 38 second mark the video shows a cluster of drones operating in close proximity. This is different...