NASA's OSIRIS-REx on its way to rendezvous and capture asteroid

NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling mission is on its way. At 7:05 pm EDT, the unmanned probe lifted off atop an Atlas/Centaur booster from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. According to NASA, the liftoff and orbital burns went off without a hitch and the spacecraft...

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Geek Speak: Rakshin

It’s Sunday and weekend is already over before it began. It’s 11th hour for all those who’ve been rather lax since friday evening. Notebooks being scribbled with hurried assignments and high intensity preparations for the upcoming weekly tests are rather a characteristic of a late sunday afternoon....

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Lowe's introduces LoweBot, a new autonomous in-store robot

"Hello, I'm NAVii. How can I help you?" This is how the store associate of the future may greet you. Starting in the fall, Lowe's shoppers in the San Francisco Bay Area will be greeted by autonomous robots. The LoweBot speaks multiple languages, and will be deployed to 11 stores to help guide...

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Geek Speak: Mukhil

It is Saturday and brings with it comes a weekend of catching up with friends and partners in mischief. However, as far as Kidobotikz is concerned the mischief and shenanigans are usually limited to the robots. The students take pleasure in enabling them though. Meanwhile, we are back at the makerspace...

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Geek Speak: Ahilesh

Friday is here and along with it has descended the weekend mindset. Far more that the weekend, it’s the weekend which brings the feel of peace and serenity, for people know that they have a whole weekend of joy ahead of them. Meanwhile, back at Kidobotikz’s classrooms, students have started to dot...

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US Army tests drones that sniff out clouds of chemical agents

Drones are proving their worth in dangerous situations we don't want to expose humans to by keeping an eye out for sharks, mines and methane leaks. Now a team from the US Army's Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center (ECBC) have tested a new pair of unmanned vehicles to detect chemical and biological...

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New system could bring HUD to more helmets

Chances are that head-up display (HUD) systems are the next big thing in motorcycle helmet tech, with several startups developing such systems. Seemore's HUD module is designed to be factory-fitted to helmets, offering an abundance of features that include a group interaction tool. The last...

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