Martian Robots, Taking Orders From a Manhattan Walk-Up
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When one of NASA's rovers drills a hole in a rock on Mars 200 million miles away, the commands come from Lower Manhattan.
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As if the debate over immigration and guest worker programs wasn't complicated enough, now a couple of robots are rolling into the middle of it.
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The ArtBots show in New York this past weekend proved that robots can wax artistic, too -- or at least carry out the instructions of their artistic creators. Cyrus Farivar reports from New York.
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By Alicia Chang THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  Scientists are scrambling to find an alternative landing site for a long-armed robot set to launch this summer on a mission to dig into Mars' icy north pole to search for signs of primitive life.
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SPACE.com / BOULDER, Colorado - Ground controllers today successfully performed a major maneuver of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MOR)--an "end game" tactic that puts the orbiting probe a step closer to studying the red planet with its entire suite of science sensors.
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Ever since the unmanned spacecraft Mars Express reported the presence of methane in the Martian atmosphere, scientists have been watching the red planet with interest bordering on obsession.
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After being used to explore Mars, make cars and clear bombs in Iraq, robots are moving into the home, ready to single-mindedly vacuum carpets, mow lawns and act like humanoids as industry targets the consumer market.
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As the largest feature of its kind in the solar system, the martian canyon, Valles Marineris, stretches an equivalent terrestrial distance from New York to Los Angeles. But getting a robotic explorer down into the canyon floor challenges even the most intrepid of navigators.
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Jetsons-like consumers are snapping up smart machines that mow lawns and vacuum floors, with window-washing and pool-cleaning robots about to take off.
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RunBot, a 9-inch-high machine, can adapt to different terrain, adjusting its gait and posture after a few learning experiences.
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A German art group reprograms old assembly-line robots to become autonomous artists. The machines draw, spin tunes and dance in public. The group wants to show that the industrial beasts can create beauty. By David Cohn.
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As US President George W. Bush prepared to step onto the stage at NASA headquarters Jan. 14 to issue a call for returning to the Moon and venturing on to Mars, a robotic rover dubbed Spirit was already preparing
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You can send a robot into a hole in the ground or in combat. That makes them the best employees around.
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RoboCops and robot soldiers got a little closer to reality Thursday as a maker of floor-cleaning automatons teamed up with a stun-gun manufacturer to arm track-wheeled 'bots for police and the Pentagon.
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The robot army is coming, and it's well armed. Wired tours the military robotics labs of the Space and Naval Warfare System Center, which is part junkyard, part high-tech weapons laboratory.
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A pair of robots named ASTRO and NextSat have been working together in Earth orbit, docking, undocking, flying around and refueling, as if they have minds of their own.  Their adventures may herald a revolution in the way we explore space.
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NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has come across  an interesting object&nbsp;-- perhaps a meteorite sitting out in the open at Meridiani  Planum. Initial data taken by the robot's Mini-Thermal Emission Spectrometer  (Mini-TES) is suggestive that the odd-looking rock is made of  metal.