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NASA Valkyrie humanoid robot built for Mars research returns to US after 10 years

A humanoid robot developed by NASA for future Mars missions is set to return ...

NASA robot returning to US for Mars trip after decade of research in Scotland

The University of Edinburgh’s Centre of Robotics has honed Valkyrie’s capabilities over the last 10 years.

NASA robot completes 10-year mission

Valkyrie, a humanoid robot that was previously trained to assist NASA with Mars mission preparations, will soon return to the ...
AOL

Elon Musk on Mars, robots and how AI will be ‘smarter than humans this year’

Larry Fink, president and CEO of investment firm BlackRock, interviewed Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX at the World Economic forum in Davos, Switzerland this week. They spoke about everything from ...

NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Strange Terrain That Could Rewrite Mars' Water History

NASA's Curiosity rover discovered strange mineral nodules on massive spiderweb formations on Mars.
The Falcons Wire

Life on Mars? How Curiosity rover launch in Florida helped make new find

NASA's Curiosity rover, which launched in 2011 from Florida, found signs of organic material that on Earth is most often produced by life.
Ars Technica

In a major new report, scientists build rationale for sending astronauts to Mars

give the Mars robot projects an Apollo-scale budget (or even a substantial fraction thereof) and I ‘ll bet it would be astonishing what they could accomplish. The mission advantages of not having to ...
Arizona Daily Star

Leading roboticist punctures hype about humanoid robots, Mars, self-driving cars | Michael Hiltzik

We are inundated with technological hype. Self-driving cars, human-like robots and AI chatbots are the subject of sometimes outlandishly exaggerated predictions and promises. So we should be thankful ...