Cheetah, a four-legged and headless robot, has set a new world speed record, according to the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). DARPA said Cheetah achieved 18 mph (29 km/h) on a laboratory treadmill and the previous land speed record by a legged robot was 13.1 mph. The agency said that the project was part of efforts to develop robots designed to “more effectively assist…
…Bolt According to DARPA, the aim is to “more effectively assist war fighters across a greater range of missions”. The Cheetah, which is powered by a hydraulic pump, broke its own record of 18 mph (29 km/h), recorded in February. “The Cheetah had a slight advantage over Bolt as it ran on a treadmill, but most of the power Cheetah used was to swing and lift its legs fast enough, no…
Japanese researchers mapped the muscles fibres of cheetah known to accelerate to record-breaking speeds. By comparing the cheetah’s muscles with those of a domestic cat and dog, the team identified the special propulsion power of its hindlimb muscles. The study is the first to investigate muscle fibre distribution across the whole of the cheetah’s body. The findings are published in t…
Robot avatars have got a step closer to being the real world doubles of those who are paralyzed or have locked-in-syndrome. Scientists have made a robot move on a human’s behalf by monitoring thoughts about movement, reports New Scientist. The man-machine link joined a man in a brain scanner in Israel and a robot wandering a laboratory in France. The person controlling the robot could also…
…me body-morphing capability.” The Meshworm is just one of several animal-inspired projects being funded by DARPA. Other examples include a robotic “cheetah” that can run at speeds of 18 mph (29 km/h), a micro-aircraft equipped with a camera that looks like a hummingbird, and AlphaDog – a four-legged robot designed to carry soldiers’ gear. Related search articl…
…per se,” said Jeff Ramsay. Ian Khama was seen sporting a plaster at a meeting following the attack. Cheetahs, the world’s fastest land mammals, are listed as an endangered species. Around 12,400 are thought to remain in the wild in African countries, including Botswana. Related search articles:Cheetah scratches Botswana President Ian Khama on his face botswana garden ian khama lov v…
What thinking about nothing looks like? Artist Gustav Metzger did wonder how his empty mind might appear if made corporeal. To find out he hooked himself up to an electroencephalograph scanner connected to a robot carving machine, then tried not to think. The result was a void space in the middle of a block of Portland stone, now on display at London’s Work Gallery. The shape carved out fro…
The most biologically-accurate robotic legs yet has been developed by US experts. Writing in the Journal of Neural Engineering, US experts said the work could help understanding of how babies learn to walk – and spinal-injury treatment. They created a version of the message system that generates the rhythmic muscle signals that control walking. The team, from the University of Arizona, were…
The Curiosity rover remains perfectly on course to make its Monday (GMT) landing on the Red Planet, NASA says. The NASA robot’s flight trajectory is so good engineers cancelled the latest course correction they had planned. To be sure of touching down in the right place on the surface, the vehicle must hit a box at the top of the atmosphere that is just 3 km by 12 km. “Our inbound tra…
…ned into a nightmare.” Violet D’Mello’s husband, Archie, took photos of her ordeal and he said the park’s guide seemed to be caught unawares by the attack. “I was about five to 10 feet away. We didn’t expect anything to happen like this. I don’t think even the guide knew what to do. She didn’t have any weapons, or stick or Taser, until somebody from the ou…
Curiosity rover has measured the Red Planet’s atmospheric composition. NASA’s robot sucked the air into its big Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument to reveal the concentration of different gases. It is the first time that the chemistry of the atmosphere has been tested from the surface of the planet since the Viking landers in the 1970s. The SAM analysis is ongoing but no major surpris…
…NASA’s $2.6 billion mission touched down on the Red Planet on 6 August (GMT). Much of the time since then has been spent commissioning the immensely complex, six-wheeled machine and its suite of 10 instruments. The Jake Matijevic investigation allowed the science team to use the X-ray spectrometer (APXS) and the hand lens (Mahli) in unison with the rover’s infrared laser instrument (Ch…
…220;We use gravity and vibration to get things into little parts of Chimra that make very controlled volumes of portions for us to drop off.” The rover has now driven at total of 484 m (of about 1,590 ft) since its 6 August landing on the floor of Gale Crater, a huge depression on Mars’ equator. It still has about 176 m to travel to get to a location dubbed Glenelg, a place satellite i…
…the Mars Descent Imager (Mardi), even in their thumbnail form, have now allowed engineers to work out Curiosity’s precise position on the planet – a latitude of -4.5895 and a longitude of 137.4417. Pictures from the Mars Descent Imager (Mardi), even in their thumbnail form, have now allowed engineers to work out Curiosity's precise position on the planet The full set of high-reso…
…ule ejected to shift its centre of mass and help guide its flight through the atmosphere. Satellite imagery has identified the line of craters these blocks made when they slammed into the ground about 12 km from Curiosity’s eventual landing position. NASA has also confirmed the precise timing of Monday’s touchdown. The rover’s computer put this at 05:17:57 UTC on Mars. With a one…
…t will be a totally automated landing. Engineers here at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, can only watch and wait. The vast distance between Mars and Earth means there is a 13-minute lag in communications, making real-time intervention impossible. NASA has had to abandon the bouncing airbag approach to making soft landings. This technique was used to great effect on the…
NASA looks set to pull the plug on its joint missions to Mars with the European Space Agency (ESA), ExoMars programme. NASA has told ESA it is now highly unlikely it will be able to contribute to the endeavors, which envision an orbiting satellite and a big roving robot being sent to the Red Planet. The US has yet to make a formal statement on the matter but budget woes are thought to lie behind…
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…n performed a shaky routine, which left her close to tears when confronted with the judges. “I don’t want to be the first person to cry on Dancing With the Stars,” she said as she was awarded a meagre 17 points – leaving her and Tristan MacManus at the bottom of the scoreboard on the show’s first all-star season. “I screwed up so many things,” she told her partner. Before her eliminati…
…ce at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, Massachusetts on Wednesday, May 29. The location was designed by another Pritzker Laureate, Ieoh Ming Pei who received the prize in 1983. “We are particularly pleased to be holding our ceremony at the Kennedy Library, and it is even more significant because the date is John F. Kennedy’s birthday,” said Thomas J. Pritzker, chairma…
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…n meteorites but it’s also distinctly different in other respects, both in the way it just looks in hand sample, but also in its elemental composition,” Carl Agee said. There are just over 100 Martian meteorites currently in collections worldwide. They were all blasted off the Red Planet by some asteroid or cometary impact, and then spent millions of years travelling through space befo…
Gangnam Style, the dance track by South Korean pop phenomenon Psy, has become YouTube’s most-watched video of all time. Gangnam Style has notched up more than 808 million views since it was posted in July. The video pokes fun at the consumerism of Gangnam, an affluent suburb of the South Korean capital Seoul. In the video, the portly Psy, 34, dances as though he is trotting on a horse, hold…
…Tsarnaev, lay dead in a furious 24-hour drama that transfixed the nation and paralyzed the Boston area with fear. Relieved law enforcement officers began cheering and clapping after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was arrested and is now in a serious condition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and is reported to have lost a great deal of blood. David Henneberry, an avid boater who is a member of the…
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Rihanna hitting fan in face with microphone during concert in BirminghamRihanna has been caught on camera violently hitting an over eager fan in the face with her microphone during a recent concert in Birmingham. Rihanna, 25, can be seen in the…
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North West: Kim Kardashian and Kanye West battle it out over their baby daughter's nameNew mother Kim Kardashian is said to be seriously considering naming her first child “North”. With the child taking her father Kanye's surname the youngster would be…
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