By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News ...
... films may find this vision scary. Quinn admits that, even among senior military figures, "science fiction movies caused a great deal of angst". He stresses the need to make sure "that the weaponised ...
HRP-4C Yup Kate , Linda , Cindy, and the rest of our Super models have new STIFF competion. Â The HRP-4C is a humanoid robot created by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology ...
... until now limited to science fiction films. Â Â Leading researchers have warned that they may be creating ultrasmart machines which end up outsmarting and perhaps even endangering humans. At a secret ...
When the legendary science fiction writer Isaac Asimov penned the Three Laws of Responsible Robotics, he forever changed the way humans think about artificial intelligence, and inspired generations of ...
... to much of the Hollywood science fiction of the period - such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which the ship's computer tries to kill its pilot. Mr Galbraith said that it was this positivity that had gripped ...
... to ships by a cable and controlled by an operator with a joystick, AUVs are guided by onboard artificial intelligence software. David Burleigh, chief scientist for naval systems at the UK's Defence Science ...
... where fighting is unpredictable and treacherous. The competition is being run by Australia's Defence Science and Technology Organisation in partnership with the US military. 'Dirty work' The government ...
Front-line staff in the nursing and care sector would welcome sensor and robot technology in nursing homes and the homes of elderly people.Read more: http://www.science daily.com/releases/2009/07/090730140437.htm ...
New meteorological data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft indicates the value for Saturn's rotation period could be more than 5 minutes shorter than previously believed. Read more: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2248 ...
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is introducing a new Web site that will provide a centralized resource for information on near-Earth objects - those asteroids and comets that can approach Earth. ...
JPL scientist Glenn Orton recounts how he and his team used a NASA telescope to verify an impact at Jupiter, which was first observed by an amateur astronomer in Australia. Read more: http://blogs.jpl.nasa.gov/?p=50 ...
Latvia becomes the second Baltic country to sign a Cooperation Agreement with ESA. ESA’s Director of Legal Affairs and External Relations, Peter Hulsroj, and Latvian Minister for Education and Science , ...
Wolfgang Fink, senior researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., is part of a Department of Energy-funded consortium that has received one of RD Magazine's 2009 RD 100 awards ...
JPL scientist Leigh Fletcher describes a rare chance to observe the resulting debris from a space rock that slammed into Jupiter earlier this week. Read more: http://blogs.jpl.nasa.gov/?p=49
As the Mars rover team uses testing at JPL to evaluate possible ways to drive Spirit out of loose soil on Mars, the team is finishing tests of individual "building block" maneuvers and is about to ...
A live videocast and chat from JPL will give viewers a chance to ask questions of rover team members working to get Spirit rolling again. Read more: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-113 ...
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