To overcome that challenge, they used an Xbox 360 game controller to direct Gemini-Scout.
ENGADGET: Gemini-Scout robot can scope out mining accidents, may save lives (video)
To ensure functionality in flooded tunnels, Gemini-Scout's controls and equipment needed to be waterproof.
ENGADGET: Gemini-Scout robot can scope out mining accidents, may save lives (video)
If all goes well, the Gemini-Scout could be ready to head underground by the end of next year.
ENGADGET: Gemini-Scout robot can scope out mining accidents, may save lives (video)
Sandia robotics engineers have designed the Gemini-Scout Mine Rescue Robot, which finds dangers and can provide relief to trapped miners.
ENGADGET: Gemini-Scout robot can scope out mining accidents, may save lives (video)
Less than four feet long and two feet tall, Gemini-Scout is nimble enough to navigate around tight corners and over safety hatches a foot high.
ENGADGET: Gemini-Scout robot can scope out mining accidents, may save lives (video)
Designers built the Gemini-Scout to negotiate nearly every known mine hazard.
ENGADGET: Gemini-Scout robot can scope out mining accidents, may save lives (video)
The team is in the final stages of licensing Gemini-Scout to a commercial robotics company, but for now, the Mine Safety and Health Administration will be the primary customer.
ENGADGET: Gemini-Scout robot can scope out mining accidents, may save lives (video)
Thanks to observations made with the Gemini ground-based optical telescope in Hawaii, it quickly became clear that GRB130427A was superbright primarily because it lay only a few billion light years away.
They flew on two suborbital and four Earth-orbital Mercury launches, nine Earth-orbital Gemini flights, two Earth-orbital Apollo tests, and two lunar-orbital tests that made those lunar surface landings possible.
At any rate, the long-awaited BlackBerry Curve 8520 (which may or may not go by Gemini on T-Mobile) has finally found a dedicated landing page on its maker's website, and while the list of specifications aren't a surprise, there is one thing that caught our eye.
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During that era of rapid innovation, lives were sacrificed -- by test pilots in space and Gemini astronauts on the ground -- but the space program moved ahead at light speed.
Built around the 1GHz Tegra 2 SOC, the 11.2-inch ICD Gemini should provide comparable endurance to Apple's A4-sporting iPad, while besting it in the grunt stakes with its glorious ability to chew through 1080p video when required.
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The confirmation, based on analysis of 10 billion year-old dying RR Lyrae stars in the Gemini constellation, was done by an international team of astronomers who report their findings in The Astrophysical Journal.
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Engineers from both the honeycomb and the thin-mirror camps, who fought bitterly over the contract to make the Gemini mirrors, will be watching closely, to see which of the two pairs of telescopes produces the better images.
David Barrett, of Gemini Consulting in London, thinks that, eventually, a solution would be to replace human air-traffic controllers with computers.
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