Article "Robohub roundtable: Robotics and space exploration"
by Robohub Editors
May 11, 2016
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Article "Robohub roundtable: Robotics and space exploration"
by Robohub Editors
May 11, 2016
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Soft-robotic space exploration
June 24, 2016
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In this video the gaits and the morphology of evolved soft-robots space explorers is presented. Both the gaits and the morphology of the soft-robots is evolved simultaneously through a neuroevolutionary algorithm (NEAT). Novelty-search and traditional fitness-based search are used through the evolution. Both methods succeed in terms of the efficiency of the evolved soft-robot explorers. In novelty-search surprising soft-robot morphologies are evolved and a vast diversity of locomotion strategies is observed.
https://youtu.be/irQYp6GFMfs
Human spaceflight and robotic exploration future
Published on Jun 29, 2017
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ESA’s vision for human spaceflight and robotic exploration is part of humanity’s road to the stars. Exploring is about visiting new places and coming back with new experiences and knowledge to help us on Earth.
Our strategy includes three destinations where humans will work with robots to gather new knowledge: low-Earth orbit on the International Space Station, the Moon – our closest neighbour, and our third destination Mars.
The exploration programme includes Europe’s service module for NASA’s Orion spacecraft around the Moon, a landing on the Moon with Roscomos’ Luna lander and ESA’s Exomars rover on Mars.
A deep-space gateway farther afield than the International Space Station is considered as a springboard for exploration beyond the Moon.
https://youtu.be/BYY3aqkfY_I
Oumuamua (1I/2017 U1) - First Interstellar Asteroid
Published on Nov 20, 2017
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In October 2017, an object moving rapidly through the Solar System was observed by Pan-STARRS 1 (discovery image, 19 October 2017), Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (22 October 2017) and various other telescopes. It appears to be a dark, reddish, highly-elongated rocky or high-metal-content object. Astronomers calculated it is around 800 metres long and has a mean radius of around 104 metres. The orbit calculations revealed it did not originate from inside the Solar System, instead Oumuamua is the first interstellar asteroid discovered.
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ESO, M. Kornmesser, L.Calcada.
A brief visit from a red and extremely elongated interstellar asteroid
Karen J. Meech, Robert Weryk, Marco Micheli, Jan T. Kleyna, Olivier R. Hainaut, Robert Jedicke, Richard J. Wainscoat, Kenneth C. Chambers, Jacqueline V. Keane, Andreea Petric, Larry Denneau, Eugene Magnier, Travis Berger, Mark E. Huber, Heather Flewelling, Chris Waters, Eva Schunova-Lilly & Serge Chastel
Nature, DOI:10.1038/nature25020
https://youtu.be/ylA-SohhdA4
AI finds new Kepler planets
Published on Dec 14, 2017
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A neural network built by an astronomer and a Google software engineer was trained to spot patterns caused by planets, and it found a pair of surprise worlds in two separate star systems.
Article "MIT space hotel wins NASA graduate design competition"
Module would serve as a commercially owned space station, featuring a luxury hotel as the primary anchor tenant and NASA as a temporary co-anchor tenant.
June 28, 2017
https://youtu.be/lF_2B47Guts
What's needed in space robots? Offworld episode 8: WALL-E
Published on Jun 25, 2018
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This week on Offworld, we revisit the classic Pixar film WALL-E, and chat with roboticists from NASA and Softbank Robotics about the development of robots for use in space. What about the portrayal of space robots in WALL-E did we like, and what would apply to the kind of robots that would work alongside humans in space?
https://youtu.be/AveBSbOuOOI
How machine learning helps scientists track asteroids
Published on Dec 4, 2018
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When NASA issued a worldwide challenge to help them better track the asteroids and comets that surround Earth, Gema Parreño answered the call. She used #TensorFlow, Google’s machine learning tool, to create a program called Deep Asteroid, which helps identify and track Near Earth Objects.
https://youtu.be/vVAxs4bfF7A
Apoillo 50+50: The New Space Industrial Ecosystem
Published on Mar 27, 2019
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Panel discusses industry's role in the future of space exploration. Moderator: MIT Prof. Olivier de Weck, withKeoki Jackson, CTO, Lockheed Martin; Larry James, deputy director, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab; John Langford, CEO, Aurora Flight Sciences; Robert Smith, CEO, Blue Origin; Dave Thompson, chairman, CEO, Orbital Sciences. Event is "Apollo 50+50" - AeroAstro's March 13, 2019 symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
https://youtu.be/4xY7cH2u01E
HP's Supercomputer in Space on the ISS
Published on May 13, 2019
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The International Space Station launched an Intel HP Enterprise manufactured supercomputer into space. The computer is capable of 1 trillion calculations for per second. The computer is powered by solar power. The computer is designed for SpaceX mission to MARS.The computer will process data for space-based experiments, which should save researchers on the ground valuable time. It will also save precious bandwidth in the tightly-controlled stream of data that NASA manages between the ISS and the ground.