By Fred O'Connor, IDG News Service\Boston Bureau 16 Apr, 2009
The medical needs of the aging adult population will increase the market for robotics to assist in health care, according to a speaker at the RoboBusiness Conference in Boston. read more »
Winding up a space walk in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, an astronaut and a cosmonaut installed a probe on the outside of the International Space Station to monitor electromagnetic energy. read more »
By Agam Shah, IDG News Service\San Francisco Bureau 19 Nov, 2008
Robots, already widely found on factory floors, are increasingly encroaching on the human world and a number of robots on display at the RoboDevelopment conference in Santa Clara, California, were programmed to not only entertain, but to secure homes, direct lost people to stores in malls and teach English. read more »
The future of space exploration will depend on humans and robots working hand-in-hand as manned and unmanned missions head back to the moon, to Mars and the further expanses of space, according to NASA. read more »
Following up on what's been called some of NASA 's most successful technology, the space agency is pushing ahead with plans to launch an SUV-sized Rover to Mars next year. read more »
By Martyn Williams, IDG News Service\Tokyo Bureau 30 Sep, 2008
Murata Manufacturing might not be a household name, but the Kyoto-based company is high-up on the list of most visitors coming to the Ceatec electronics show that opened here on Tuesday. read more »
By Sharon Gaudin, Computerworld (US online) 29 Sep, 2008
Forget trying to find evidence that there used to be water on Mars. Scientists from NASA said Monday that its instruments on the Red Planet have detected falling snow. read more »
By Elizabeth Heichler, IDG News Service\Boston Bureau 25 Sep, 2008
The dramatic increase in compute power unleashed by multicore processors will enable applications that blend virtual representations of the real world with information that meets users' contextual needs, Microsoft's top researcher said at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Thursday. read more »
With gobs of information from its recent Mars missions already in the hopper, plans are now well underway for NASA's 2013 launch of its next robotic trip to the Red Planet. The $485 million mission will focus on studying the planet's atmosphere, climate history and potential habitability. read more »
Kenya Airways was one of the first Kenyan companies to open twitter accounts, its account was even verified. Soon, other bigger companies like DSTv realized the benefit of the forum and set up accounts. read more »
