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 »
By Martyn Williams, IDG News Service\Tokyo Bureau 1 Aug, 2008
Toyota demonstrated on Friday a Segway-like personal transportation device called the Winglet that is partly based on robotics technology from Sony. read more »
By Sharon Gaudin, Computerworld (US online) 31 Jul, 2008
Just as NASA announced the extension of the Phoenix Mars mission by five weeks, its scientists disclosed that they finally got the first Martian ice sample into one of the analysis ovens onboard the Lander. read more »
It may be more than Safaricom is willing to admit, but the competition seems to be poking holes into the Safaricom strategy, which may force them to rethink.
“We are not going to do something stupid or silly; we must take care of the bottom-line and ensure a healthy balance sheet,” said Michael Joseph. read more »
