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Featured Articles » When Robots Finally Get Realistic Enough to be Creepy » X-37B Robotic Space Plane Scheduled for Launch on Friday » New Phone Supposed to Look Like, Feel Like Mini-Human » Mind-Controlled Car Performs Well in Initial Tests » Sensor Fusion Technology Takes Center Stage at GeckoSystems' Robotics Conference   Sponsor: 4GWE Conference 4GWE will explore the critical issues of how best to enable and exploit the mobile Internet. 4GWE will explore the trends driving a shift towards an anywhere, anytime, broadband mobile network. As part of ITEXPO, 4GWE has become the industry's premier gathering place for Mobile Network Operators, fixed carriers, handset manufacturers, mobile internet device manufacturers, application providers, and venture capitalists.   Top Stories » SEFAC Agrees to Sponsor Hereford Robotics Club » Forty Teams to Take Part in Kettering University Robotics Contest » International Symposium on Robotics Returns to US After Four Years » AeroVironment Builds a Hummingbird-Like Unmanned Aircraft for DARPA   From The Expert Corner March 08, 2011 Air Force Launches Robotic Space Plane, Mission Details Still Unclear By Beecher Tuttle TMCnet Contributor Share An experimental, unmanned space plane was launched into orbit on Saturday for a classified Air Force mission. Powered by a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, the space plane, known as the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida following a one-day delay due to weather concerns. Saturday's launch represents the second time in as many years that the Air Force has sent an unmanned, winged space plane into orbit. The first X-37B was shot out into space in April of last year, and successfully landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California after a 9-month mission... Read More   From The Blogs APlus Mobile Gets Navy R&D Nod March 2, 2011 5:28 PM By: Greg Galitzine APlus Mobile, Inc., announced it has been awarded a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with SPAWAR, the R&D division of the Navy. This is the second such agreement for APlus Mobile. At the heart of the accord is the firm’s Q40, which is a sealed server, and which will be incorporated into a next-generation robotic platform that SPAWAR is developing for all branches of the military...Read More     TMCnet's Blogs » Health Robotics Completes R&D of New Cancer Therapy Robot » Teal Group Study Highlights UAV Growth » Build Online Communities With Adonis DNA   Featured Channels » Gadgets » Robotics » Smart Auto   Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here      Contact Us   Company Directory    |    All Editors' Info   Become a TMCnet columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of IP Communications professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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