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NASA Outlines Big Plans For Humanoid RobotHuntsville AL (SPX) May 03, 2010 Astronauts on board the International Space Station will soon have a new roommate--and it's not human. It's a humanoid. In Sept. 2010, space shuttle Discovery will deliver Robonaut 2--"R2" for short--to the ISS, where it will become the first humanoid robot to travel and work in space. Developed jointly by NASA and General Motors, R2 looks a bit like C-3PO of Star Wars fame but lacks the chatty robot's gift of gab. That's okay, because the humans on board need a worker that can wield more useful t ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) April 30, 2010The US government said Friday that the level of theft of copyrights and patents in China "remains unacceptable" and kept Beijing on a "priority watch list" for intellectual property protection. An annual report by the US Trade Representative's office (USTR) said that China's enforcement regime "remains largely ineffective and non-deterrent" and that US copyright industries ranging from softw ... more
New Delhi (AFP) April 30, 2010India has blocked its fast-growing telecom sector from buying some Chinese-made equipment, an Indian mobile operator said Friday, in a move set to stoke trade tensions between the emerging giants. An executive of a Indian mobile operator said his company had received a letter from the Indian government saying it could not buy equipment from UTStarcom, a US-based company that manufactures in ... more  
Ames IO (SPX) May 03, 2010They can't wait to do computational chemistry at a quadrillion calculations per second. But it's not all that computing power that's driving three Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory researchers as they develop computational chemistry at the petascale. Driving their project is the ability to run complex calculations and do better science. "Petascale power is required for accuracy," s ... more |
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Comms Module For Second MUOS Sat DeliveredSunnyvale CA (SPX) Apr 30, 2010 Lockheed Martin has delivered a cutting-edge communications system module for the second satellite in the U.S. Navy's Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) program. Supporting ultra-high frequency (UHF) satellite communications (SATCOM), MUOS will provide assured communications, including simultaneous voice, video and data, for mobile warfighters. Designed and built by Lockheed Martin in Newtown, Pa., and delivered to the company's facilities in Sunnyvale, Calif., the module features a wideban ... read more |
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