NASA | GPM: Engineering Next Generation Observations of Rain and Snow.

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For the past three years, the global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory has gone from components and assembly drawings to a fully functioning satellite at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The satellite has now arrived in Japan, where it will lift off in early 2014.

The journey to the launch pad has been a long and painstaking process.

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This Jumble of Tent Poles Could Be NASA's Next Titan-exploring Robot

The "Super Ball Bot", under development at NASA Ames, is a robotic exoskeleton designed to land on the surface of Titan without a parachute or airbag. The robot, created by Vytas SunSpiral and Adrian Agogino, can then roll about the surface by adjusting its shape. For more information, read http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots/nasas-squishable-ball-bot-could-explore-titan

More from Vytas SunSpiral: http://www.magicalrobot.org/

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Robonaut2, the Next Generation Dexterous Robot

Researchers at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC), in collaboration with General Motors and Oceaneering, have designed a state-of-the-art, highly dexterous, humanoid robot: Robonaut 2 (R2). R2 is made up of multiple component technologies and systems vision systems, image recognition systems, sensor integrations, tendon hands, control algorithms, and much more.

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Next generation medical bionics: Professor Gordon Wallace at TEDxUWollongong

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Professor Gordon Wallace, Director and Founder of the University of Wollongong's Intelligent Polymer Research Institute and Executive Research Director at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science speaks at TEDxUWollongong 2012. He is a pioneer in the emerging field of nanobionics, a field that has already produced the Bionic Ear and in the future, has the potential to drastically change the capabilities of modern medicine.
His team have recently had a breakthrough with the development of an inkjet printer that assists nerve cell generation, which has the potential to repair damaged spinal cords and heal hearing damage.

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The Next Iron Man is YOU

Do you want the powers of Iron Man? We have the science and technology capable of transforming an ordinary individual into a superhuman. Find out how you can suit up in an exoskeleton like Tony Stark's in the premiere episode of Science Friction. In each episode I break down the real science behind a particular super power and explain how you can attain that power for yourself.

Opening GFX by Paul Kamuf.

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ASIMO Robot Next-Generation Unveiled! - 2013 Humanoid Robot Show

The most amazing new science discoveries; flying cars are finally here! http://bit.ly/19B8J1Y


Honda Robotics Unveils Next-Generation ASIMO Robot
You're looking at Honda's brand new ASIMO robot, which was just unveiled today in Japan.

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