Archive for the ‘habitats’ category: Page 64
Apr 16, 2021
New Yorkers freak out as NYPD deploys Digidog, despite city’s project to ban ‘weaponized robots’
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: habitats, robotics/AI
A $75000 robot dog seen leaving a Manhattan housing project has outraged city residents who heard less than a month ago that the pricey Boston Dynamics bots would be banned from being used as weapons.
The dog was seen exiting the housing project on Monday with a group of human police officers, who acted almost subservient to the shiny blue metal creature while escorting it out of the Kips Bay building. While the New York Police Department insisted the faux-canine had not played an “active role” in the operation, which allegedly involved removing an armed man from an apartment belonging to a woman and her baby, its appearance seemed to cast a spell over the assembled residents.
One resident, tenant organization head Melanie Aucello, rushed back home after receiving a handful of calls about “police in the building” and was wildly disturbed by what she saw there – not just the dog, but its effects on people.
Apr 15, 2021
Crew Dragon’s Short Hop Begins The Era Of Valet Parking At The ISS
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: habitats, robotics/AI, space
They weren’t scheduled to return to Earth until April 28th at the earliest, so why did NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, along with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, suit up and climb aboard the Crew Dragon Resilience on April 5th? Because a previously untested maneuver meant that after they closed the hatch between their spacecraft and the International Space Station, there was a chance they weren’t going to be coming back.
On paper, moving a capsule between docking ports seems simple enough. All Resilience had to do was undock from the International Docking Adapter 2 (IDA-2) located on the front of the Harmony module, itself attached to the Pressurized Mating Adapter 2 (PMA-2) that was once the orbital parking spot for the Space Shuttle, and move over to the PMA-3/IDA-3 on top of Harmony. It was a short trip through open space, and when the crew exited their craft and reentered the Station at the end of it, they’d only be a few meters from where they started out approximately 45 minutes prior.
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Apr 15, 2021
Evidence Mars May Have Been Alive — and May Yet Harbor Some Life
Posted by Greg Allison in categories: food, habitats, space
Was Mars green? Evidence Mars may have been alive — and may yet harbor some life deep underground.
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Apr 12, 2021
An Inflatable Space Station May Be Our New Home in Space
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: habitats, space
NASA is considering an inflatable space habitat designed by Sierra Nevada Corporation as a potential space station of the future.
Apr 10, 2021
This wild-looking house is made out of dirt by a giant 3D printer
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: habitats, sustainability
These 645-square-foot domed buildings were printed in Italy over the course of 200 hours.
Apr 7, 2021
SpaceX Starship SN 11 Findings and Fixes
Posted by Greg Allison in categories: Elon Musk, habitats, space travel
Elon Musk has given us his findings to why the SpaceX Starship SN 11 exploded above the landing pad.
I explore fixes from a system safety standpoint. See what I recommend.
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The company working on a militarized version of BD’s Spot. It looks like just a straight copy. Sadly, no FB page, and didn’t see any other robots on there besides this. I think some humanoid robot competition would be helpful.
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Mar 31, 2021
SpaceX Starship Recommendations and SN 11 Crash
Posted by Greg Allison in categories: habitats, space travel
See my recommendations to get Starship landing, videos, and discussions of quantity distance and other aspects of safety and mission assurance that could potentially help assure successful Starship flights.
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Mar 28, 2021
A2Z Drone Delivery Rapid Delivery System Means Drones Don’t Have to Land at Your House
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: drones, habitats
We wrote about DroneUp’s drone delivery of Coke with Coffee to residents in Coffee, GA – but how exactly did that delivery work? The A2Z Rapid Delivery System allowed packages to be delivered without landing the drone – a method that solves a lot of problems in drone delivery.
CA-based A2Z Drone Delivery, LLC, has developed a patented tethered freefall drone delivery mechanism, the Rapid Delivery System (RDS1) used by DroneUp® for the project with Walmart and Coke. The RDS1 system lowers the delivery to the ground by tether – which means that homeowners don’t have to worry about a noisy landing or the potential for a landing drone to hit obstacles on its way down. “The RDS1 was chosen for its rapid delivery capabilities which reduced time-on-station to just 30 seconds per delivery, while minimizing intrusive rotor noise and limiting the window for risk to people on the ground,” says an A2Z press release.
“For our partners at DroneUp to put their trust in our system was the best proof of concept that we could imagine and was a memorable benchmark for our whole team,” said Aaron Zhang, founder of A2Z Drone Delivery, LLC. “The unique capabilities of the RDS1 were tailor-made for this type of residential delivery where our tethered freefall mechanism can accurately and quickly deposit payloads while hovering far from people, homes, trees and utility wires.”