Carnegie Mellon signs up for robot space race
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The Google Lunar X Prize, a robotic race to the moon, has drawn its first contestant.
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update MOJAVE, Calif.--A venture backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen got a jump Wednesday on rivals eyeing a $10 million prize for the first privately funded junkets into space and back.
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A miniature robot designed this summer by a Carnegie Mellon University mechanical engineer has done what only bugs and Jesus Christ have done before -- walk on water.
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NASA officials in Alabama are calling on the next generation of space explorers to design and race their lunar rovers in NASA's 14th Great Moonbuggy Race.  The event at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., is open to high school and college students, NASA said.
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Innovators take note: The folks behind the X Prize vow there will soon be more competitions in several disciplines. Also: The da Vinci team presses ahead in Canada.... Rubicon team plans another launch attempt. By Dan Brekke.
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An advanced robotic arm beats a host of other machines to win a Japanese government competition
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An academic real world -- plus, a chance to win $1,000.
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A top state-run science college in South Korea has forged a research partnership with the U.S. space agency NASA, the school said Sunday.
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Within a converted barn on the Planetary Society&#39;s campus Tuesday, a group of scientists, engineers and volunteers began the countdown for a March launch of the
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Google said Thursday that it would award a $20 million prize to the first group able to safely land a robotic rover on the moon and transfer back a gigabyte of video and data successfully to Earth.
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The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation has given Carnegie Mellon University $20 million toward construction of a new computer science building.
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Support is growing for a human mission to be sent to repair the Hubble space telescope instead of robots.
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The U.S. team that took the first  privately funded, manned ship into space makes a bid to capture  a $10 million prize this week -- signaling that commercial  space travel has nearly arrived.
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Scientists are scrambling to find an alternative landing site for a long-armed robot set to launch this summer on a mission to dig into Mars' icy north pole to search for signs of primitive life.
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With inspiration from nature and some help from research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a team led by Carnegie Mellon engineering professor Metin Sitti built a tiny robot that
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Google Inc. is bankrolling a $30 million out-of-this-world prize to the first private company that can safely land a robotic rover on the moon and beam back a gigabyte of images and video to Earth, the Internet search leader said Thursday.
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The rocket plane SpaceShipOne, built by aviation pioneer Burt Rutan and financed by Microsoft Corp. co- founder Paul Allen, won the $10 million competition aimed at creating a space tourism