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Meet the Remote-Controlled Sea Robots That Can Explore Antarctica

The same company behind the popular Roomba robocleaner is producing an underwater robot that can stay below the surface for months.READ»

New Idea for Mars Exploration: Roaming Robot Swarms With Honeybee Instincts

Forget sending huge, expensive, remote-controlled robot probes to Mars--could a swarm of smaller, cheaper units that roam the surface using honeybee-like thinking actually do part of the exploration better and more cheaply?READ»

Japan Gives Vietnam a Major Space Exploration Boost

Japan's $480 million investment in Vietnam's fledgling space industry will improve Japan's galactic public image and give Vietnam its own set of eyes in outer space.READ»

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NASA's Madcap Sci-Fi Plan Could Get an Android Moonwalking Within 3 Years

NASA's moonshot program is in tatters, and the shuttle's due to fly for the last time soon ... but it doesn't mean there's no exciting space news. For example: Did you know NASA could send an android to the moon inside just three ...READ»

NASA Gets a $6 Billion Booster for Mars and Beyond

  Find hope in this, NASA, science and Mars fans: President Obama's new stance on NASA's funding will likely pump no less than $6 billion into the agency to create a new heavy rocket sooner than we'd hoped. Mars is its ...READ»

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Obama to Kill Moonshot, Make the Space Race a More Private Affair

All pointers say that in the next budget from the Obama government, NASA's moonshot Constellation program will be axed. It's not necessarily the end of the dream, though: The plan is to involve private space companies much ...READ»

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Tomorrow NASA Bombs the Moon

Update: NASA's 'Moon Bombing' A Smashing Success NASA's always trying to push the envelope, and tomorrow the space agency's got a really big push: It's going to bomb the Moon. Seriously, and it's all in the name of science, the ...READ»

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All-Terrain Tribot Rolls Where Man Fears To Tread

The Tribot may look a little like something you'd find barring traffic at a construction site, but actually it's a sophisticated robot designed to gather data for climate and environmental research from difficult-to-reach ...READ»

Levy Flights and Ideation

In our ongoing research on the most efficient way to explore idea spaces to find the best possible new ideas, we've been thinking a lot about the Levy flight, named for Paul Pierre Lévy, a French mathematician/physicist. A Levy ...READ»

I wonder

whether Gary Hamel is right: Is the future of management another than we have know for the past century? I think yes. To my opinion Gary Hamel offers some very interesting examples of metaphors that we should learn from - ...READ»