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[youtube 9psNh-dJTDU] Kinect House Maids Meet SmartPal VII , a kind of interim stage before truly automated robot and butler bots start cleaning up your household mess for you--SmartPal's brains are actually you. The robot from Yashkawa Electric is designed to be controlled via a gesture and motion-tracking interface powered through a Microsoft Kinect system
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Read More »Superfocus Glasses Bring Clarity To NASA Astronauts And 65 Million Farsighted Earthlings
Innovative Superfocus glasses were originally designed to deliver sharp vision to some 65 million Americans with aging eyes. Now they're even helping astronauts see better on long space flights
Read More »Astronaut Ron Garan On His Harrowing Landing, Innovations In Outer Space, And Tweeting From The Final Frontier
In an extended interview, astronaut Ron Garan speaks with Fast Company about his nerve-wracking return to earth, what technology startups should develop for space travel, and life on the International Space Station. "We really need to start not just exploring space," Garan says, "but utilizing space." NASA astronaut Ron Garan has an amazing story to tell.
Read More »NASA Unveils New Detailed Photos of Apollo Moon Landing Sites
New photos of several Apollo moon landing sites were released today (Sept. 6), showing extraordinary new details about three areas on the lunar surface that were visited by humans. The images include the sharpest views yet of tracks left by the astronauts and their lunar rovers
Read More »This Week In Bots: Space Droids, Dog Droids, Chatting Droids And Farming Droids
Do Astronauts Dream of Electric DEXTREs? Potentially evoking creepy memories of external circuit failures from the film 2001, an important circuit breaker aboard the ISS recently popped and had to be replaced. The thing is, it sits in an electronics sled outside the ISS, and would've necessitated an astronaut to perform a spacewalk to fix it--but this time the Canadian-made DEXTRE performed the task entirely by remote control, with mission controllers runnning the operation from Houston while the astronauts aboard the station slept
Read More »NASA’s Space Shuttle Successor And The "Man In The Tin Can" Solution
NASA's revealed plans for manned human spaceflight, centering on the four-seat, conical Orion capsule. NASA's plans for manned human spaceflight are salvaged from the wreckage of the Constellation program
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