Phoenix Mars Lander scoops up 'almost perfect' icy soil for analysis

The Hindustan Times;  July 2, 2008 ;     248 words ......piles of 'almost perfect' icy soil from the surface of the Red...be analyzed further. The icy soil has been scraped up from...sol, of the mission. The robotic arm on Phoenix used the blade...under subsurface soil. The robotic arm then heaped the scrapings...soil," and ...

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander enlarges trench in search of ice

The Hindustan Times;  July 16, 2008 ;     375 words ......Lander is using its robotic arm to enlarge an exposure...planned for collecting an icy sample from the Martian...real estate of dark icy soil in the trench to do...tests," he added. As the Robotic Arm was extracting the fork-li...14th called for the Robotic Arm ...

Robotic arm may revolutionize sinus surgery

Honolulu Star - Bulletin;  January 16, 2003 ;     700+ words ......medical community. The procedure uses a robotic arm and has helped people like Mark Hada...Throat) Department with a voice-directed robotic arm. Obando and Dr. John Payne, general...Endoscopic System for Optimal Positioning) robotic arm. Hada, who works at the airport post...

Robotic Arm & IBM PC interface. (Amazing Science).

Poptronics;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......IBM compatible) for OWI's popular Robotic Arm Trainer. The PC interface, see Fig. 1, allows one to control the Robotic Arm either interactively in real time...a few. Designing and building a robotic arm from scratch is a difficult project...

Robotic Arm Is Fixed On Rover Opportunity; Explorer Prepares to Dig in...

The Washington Post;  February 15, 2004 ;     313 words ...Scientists fixed a glitch that froze the robotic arm on the Mars rover Opportunity and then...the rover failed to properly stow its robotic arm. Engineers sent instructions to the...have been an unsafe movement with the robotic arm. Faced with the conflict between that...

Release of robotic arm on Mars lander begins

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  May 29, 2008 ;     369 words ......Ariz. -- Scientists began releasing the robotic arm on NASA's new Mars spacecraft on Wednesday...8-foot arm moving, Goldstein said. The robotic arm was folded on the lander's science deck...to remove its protective sleeve, said robotic arm manager Bob Bonitz of NASA's Jet ...

Robotic arm to trawl geoscience archive.

Australasian Business Intelligence;  July 6, 2008 ;     162 words ......COMTEX) -- Geoscience Australia will use a robotic arm to search its huge store of data. The robotic arm, worth almost $A2 million, will physically...centre was completed in July 2007, and the robotic arm will be in operation by September 2008...

Monkey magic: Hope for paralysis victims as animal controls robotic arm...

Belfast Telegraph;  May 29, 2008 ;     700+ words ......controls muscle movements - to operate the robotic arm. The scientists said that they were...them to train the monkeys to move the robotic arm, which appeared to be readily accepted...them to control the movement of the robotic arm, which consisted of a shoulder joint...

Speech-controlled robotic arm. (Amazing Science).

Poptronics;  May 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......we built a PC interface for the OWI robotic arm. This month we will do one more project for the robotic arm, a speech-recognition interface. The...speech-recognition circuit and the robotic arm. It allows one to control all the robotic...

Kansas Inventors Develop Chain-Driven Robotic Arm

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 27, 2007 ;     259 words ......Kan., have developed a chain-driven robotic arm for use in a system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic arm for transporting products in a product...dispensing system is disclosed. The robotic arm broadly includes a base operable to...

Endeavor to Send Robotic Arm to Space Station

Xinhua News Agency;  April 19, 2001 ;     172 words ......Endeavor" to deliver a Canadian-made robotic arm to the International Space Station Thursday...1,600 kilograms. The 19-meter- long robotic arm was originally meant to pull in an approaching...what is probably the most complicated robotic-arm operation to date, by using a smaller...

Spirit rover extends robotic arm to snap close-up images of martian...

AP Worldstream;  January 17, 2004 ;     389 words ......rover reached out to Mars, extending its robotic arm to snap a series of tight close-ups...hazard-avoidance cameras that show the rover's robotic arm extended for the first time. The arm...instruments share space on Spirit's robotic arm with the microscopic imager and a rock...

Astronauts maneuver new robotic arm

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  June 8, 2008 ;     514 words ......six joints on the Japanese Kibo lab's robotic arm for the first time, maneuvering them...experiments -- and a second, smaller robotic arm. After he and Nyberg finished testing the robotic arm, Hoshide reflected on what Kibo means...

ASI delivers robotic arm for NASA'S Mars Phoenix.(Alliance Spacesystems...

Quality;  June 1, 2006 ;     362 words ...PASADENA, CA -- A new robotic arm destined to dig deep into Mars...Fradet, ASI president and CEO. The robotic arm for Phoenix works like a mini-backhoe...scientists anticipate that the robotic arm will uncover a layer of water ice...

NASA Inspectors Check Endeavour's Robotic Arm

Getty Images;  November 15, 2002 ;     87 words ......Unidentified NASA scientists inspect the robotic arm of the Space Shuttle Endeavour on November...Florida. The shell around the Shuttle's robotic arm was slightly damaged during the search...ENDEAVOUR ARM,STS-113,SPACE SHUTTLE,ROBOTIC ARM DAMAGE,HONEYCOMB,164786 2002 Getty Images...