You may soon see Rosie the Robot strolling the halls of more hospitals now that iRobot’s remote presence robot has been given official FDA clearance. The Remote Presence Virtual + Independent Telemedicine Assistant, or RP-VITA for short, is the first autonomous navigation remote presence robot to receive FDA clearance for use in hospitals. The RP-VITA was made by iRobot, makers ... Read More »
Disney announced Tuesday that it is acquiring Lucasfilm LTD, including the Star Wars franchise, for $4.05 billion in stock and cash. In a press release announcing the acquisition, Disney announced that Star Wars Episode 7 is targeted for a release date in 2015 and that “more feature films expected to continue the Star Wars saga and grow the franchise well ... Read More »
The most crowded alien planetary system found yet possesses five worlds all orbiting a star at least 12 times closer than Earth does the sun, researchers say. Investigators discovered these exoplanets using NASA’s pioneering Kepler space observatory. The orbiting telescope has detected more than 2,300 potential alien worlds since its March 2009 launch. It searches for these planets by observing ... Read More »
What if you could control a tablet or desktop computer just by looking at its screen? That’s the promise of Tobii Gaze, an experimental interface that uses what its maker calls the “most advanced and compact eye tracker in the world.” The eye tracker replaces the actions of a finger or mouse pointer with a simple stare at a link ... Read More »
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has discovered what appears to be an ancient streambed, suggesting that water once flowed in large volumes — perhaps hip-deep in places — across the Martian surface. Photos from the Curiosity rover have revealed several different rocky outcrops that contain stones cemented into a layer of conglomerate rock. Some of these stones are rounded and large, ... Read More »
A Swedish expedition team has found an unidentified object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, leaving some to believe it’s the remnants of an extra-terrestrial ship. Scientists went off on a deep-water dive to debunk some theories about the underwater object, but were left with more questions than they had answers. The divers found that the object was raised ... Read More »
A strange picture of odd, spherical rock formations on Mars from NASA’s Opportunity rover has scientists scratching their heads over what exactly they’re looking at. The new Mars photo by Opportunity shows a close-up of a rock outcrop called Kirkwood covered in blister-like bumps that mission scientists can’t yet explain. At first blush, the formations appear similar to so-called Martian ... Read More »
Life may be able to survive on a broader set of alien worlds than astronomers had thought, a new study suggests. Researchers have created a new online tool called the “Habitable Zone Gallery,” which looks at every known exoplanetary system and determines that just-right range of distances from the host star where liquid water could exist. The upshot is that ... Read More »
No U.S. president has waxed as poetically about mining the moon the way John F. Kennedy did about landing on it. But that didn’t stop four entrepreneurs from making their best pitches Sept. 11 to two empty chairs, standing in for President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. Neither the Obama nor Romney campaigns had accepted invitations to ... Read More »
Thousands of students around the world submitted science projects to be performed in space. Today, astronauts will conduct the two winning experiments live from the International Space Station, 250 miles above Earth. Starting at 10:30 a.m. ET, Bill Nye will host the 45-minute event, which will be live-streamed via YouTube. You can watch the video above. “Students from around the ... Read More »
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