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Robotics
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Mars and Moon geology: past, present and future
Mars landers and Moon rocks star at this year’s LPSC.
One month after it landed on Mars and beamed back its first “I made it” messages, NASA’s Perseverance rover is limber...
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Strolling and learning: multi-terrain robots
Artificial intelligence helps inform robot’s balance.
A team of researchers, including Australian scientists, have developed a robot that learns to walk across different t...
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Video: Soft robot withstands ocean depths
Inspired by deep sea creatures, a soft robot can withstand underwater pressure.
A team of engineers have announced that their deep-sea exploration vessel can operate at the bottom of the Mariana Tr...
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Newton in the pilot’s seat
How to land a Mars rover when you’re many, many millions of kilometres away.
It takes a lot of thought and a lot of work to land a rover on Mars. It’s not as if you’re on Earth, where you can ch...
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Video
Rover’s eye view
NASA releases thrilling film of Perseverance landing.
In a staggering series of images that allow viewers to relive landing day from a new perspective, NASA’s Perseverance...
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Perseverance pays off
NASA rover successfully down in Jezero Crater on Mars.
NASA's perseverance rover- It started with the type of chatter you might hear from someone setting up a complex sound...
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School of fishy little robots
Fish-like Bluebots use LED lights and cameras to swarm like the real thing.
Why have a school of fish when you can have a school of robots? This is a question recently answered by a team of ...
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Magazine
It’s hip to be square
Why CubeSats are the coolest things in space.
By Bianca Nogrady Like orbiting LEGO bricks crammed with tech, CubeSats are simple, customisable and the next big ...
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Creating nanobots like they do in movies
Design theory seeks to control how they assemble.
Researchers in Australia and the UK are bringing a sci-fi concept closer to reality as they work to overcome a major ...
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Diving with Clio is quite an adventure
New AUV works hard and travels far and wide.
Engineers in the US have built an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that appears to up the ante in terms of underwa...
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Swift by design, drone by nature
Ornithopters not just a flight of fancy.
Hovering, darting, gliding, diving and braking, the fleet-winged contraption in the video below is at the cutting edg...