January 2022
International cooperation - the key to survival on Earth and in space
...ISS. One of his tasks was to operate the Station’s robotic arm to dock Japan’s first H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV). ...the fundaments of the European Space Agency. This would include both robotic and human exploration, and one of the programmes that we ...
01 February 2016
How to Make Intelligent Robots That Understand the World
... Institute for Brain Research, has his own vision: a novel approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI) that could give robots the capability to understand the world through a method called “AI-Kindergarten”. So, can we provide for a sufficiently strong...
08 April 2016
Falcon 9 Launch Scheduled for Later Today
... Koenigsmann, vice president of mission assurance at SpaceX, said during a prelaunch briefing on April 7. This will be SpaceX's eighth robotic resupply flight to the ISS, but first in almost a year. The previous similar mission ended in june 2015...
31 May 2021
Space junk collision highlights need for intervention
... Space Station (ISS) is a stark reminder of the increasing dangers posed to orbiting spacecraft by space debris. Near-term robotics operations on the Space Station were continuing as normal this week while NASA and the Canadian Space...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
...therapy, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, advanced robotics and automation are all likely to converge. Such...At the European Space Agency he managed human and robotic exploration preparation programmes, including the use of the ...
June 2019
The challenge of planetary protection
... make use of space resources. In the 60 or so years of robotic exploration of the solar system, this urge has pushed humanity forward and given... life. Clearly, human missions are different from robotic missions. NASA and other space agencies have been...
