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≡ Mars Rover ‘Curiosity’ Grows Up, Rolls for the First Time (Discovery News)

Monday, July 26, 2010

“Construction of the rover has advanced very quickly over the last few days, and on July 23 engineers commanded Curiosity to take its first, slow steps. Housed inside a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif….”

July 26th, 2010
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≡ Pooping Robot Needs More Fiber (Discovery News)

Analysis by David Teeghman
Wed Jul 21, 2010 11:08 AM ET
Original Story

Self-sustaining robots can do just about anything on their own for days at a time. They can even ingest biomass for energy. The problem is that until now, they couldn’t do anything with the waste from that energy.

That’s why researchers at the Bristol Robotics Lab [...]