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Robots compete in “Hack to the Future”

Final competition in MIT’s course 2.007 pays tribute to classic time-travel movie. [caption id="attachment_4134" align="aligncenter" width="639"] "Hack to the Future," the final competition of MIT's course 2.007, was inspired by the movie "Back to the…

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MIT engineers hand “cognitive” control to underwater robots

With MIT-developed algorithms, robots plan underwater missions autonomously. [caption id="attachment_4131" align="aligncenter" width="639"] Researchers watch underwater footage taken by various AUVs exploring Australia's Scott Reef.Courtesy of the researchers[/caption] For the last decade, scientists have deployed increasingly…

Land shift in Nepal: DLR provides aerial images…

[caption id="attachment_4123" align="aligncenter" width="1440"] Nepal earthquake displacement :- Based on data from the Sentinel-1A satellite, this image shows how and where the land uplifted and sank from the 7.8-magnitute earthquake that struck Nepal on 25…

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Nepal Earthquake on Rador

[caption id="attachment_4116" align="alignright" width="579"] Nepal earthquake ( Description: Combining two Sentinel-1A radar scans from 17 and 29 April 2015, this interferogram shows changes on the ground that occurred during the 25 April earthquake that struck…