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Apr 7, 2019
Can Robots Build a Moon Base for Astronauts? Japan Hopes to Find Out
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: robotics/AI, space travel
Japan’s space agency wants to create a moon base with the help of robots that can work autonomously, with little human supervision.
The project, which has racked up three years of research so far, is a collaboration between the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the construction company Kajima Corp., and three Japanese universities: Shibaura Institute of Technology, The University of Electro-Communications and Kyoto University.
Recently, the collaboration did an experiment on automated construction at the Kajima Seisho Experiment Site in Odawara (central Japan).
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Apr 6, 2019
Link Observatory Space Science Institute
Posted by Alberto Lao in categories: science, space travel
Apr 5, 2019
Using AI to Make Better AI
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: information science, robotics/AI, space travel
Next month, however, a team of MIT researchers will be presenting a so-called “Proxyless neural architecture search” algorithm that can speed up the AI-optimized AI design process by 240 times or more. That would put faster and more accurate AI within practical reach for a broad class of image recognition algorithms and other related applications.
“There are all kinds of tradeoffs between model size, inference latency, accuracy, and model capacity,” says Song Han, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. Han adds that:
“[These] all add up to a giant design space. Previously people had designed neural networks based on heuristics. Neural architecture search tried to free this labor intensive, human heuristic-based exploration [by turning it] into a learning-based, AI-based design space exploration. Just like AI can [learn to] play a Go game, AI can [learn how to] design a neural network.”
Apr 5, 2019
SpaceX’s Starship Hopper Completes First Tethered “Hop”
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
Apr 4, 2019
Scientists Say They Can Make Light Travel 30x Faster Than Normal
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: space travel
“This is the first clear demonstration of controlling the speed of a pulse light in free space,” Abouraddy said in the statement. “And it opens up doors for many applications, an optical buffer being just one of them, but most importantly it’s done in a simple way, that’s repeatable and reliable.”
READ MORE: Researchers develop way to control speed of light, send it backward [Phys.org]
More on light: New NASA Animations Show How Slowly Light Travels Through Space.
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Apr 4, 2019
UCI Student ‘Accidentally’ Invents a Rechargeable Battery That Lasts 400 Years
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: nanotechnology, space travel
A University of California Irvine student may have stumbled upon an invention to end your phone-charging woes for good. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg of where that could take us as a society. Forget about your phone; the world would be a different place without ever having to worry about replacing car batteries, and imagine the uses that it could have in space exploration. Technology is the ultimate wildcard.
A battery that lasts a whole lifetime is now one step closer to becoming a reality thanks to Mya Le Thai, a PhD student who’s been researching how to make better nanowire rechargeable batteries. In theory, her discovery could lead to a battery that lasts centuries—as long as 400 years.
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Apr 4, 2019
Permanent settlement on Mars could be built in 20 years: advocate
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space travel
Humans could build a permanent settlement on Mars where a new branch of human civilization and social order could be created, said a Mars exploration advocate on Thursday.
“We could easily have humans on Mars in 10 years or faster if it is an international project,” Robert Zubrin, the Mars Society president, told the Global Times in an exclusive interview on Thursday in Beijing.
By then, human beings could go back and forth between Mars and Earth anytime by taking reusable rockets and the technology would be cheaper and cheaper as the spaceflight frequency to Mars increases, he said.
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Apr 3, 2019
Jefferson Starship — White Rabbit — 11/8/1975 — Winterland (Official)
Posted by Mark Larkento in categories: entertainment, media & arts, space travel
White Rabbit
Recorded Live: 11/8/1975 — Winterland — San Francisco, CA
More Jefferson Starship at Music Vault: http://www.musicvault.com
Personnel:
Grace Slick — vocals
Paul Kantner — vocals, guitar
Marty Balin — vocals, percussion
David Frieberg — keyboards, bass, vocals.
Craig Chaquico — lead guitar
Pete Sears — bass, piano
Johnny Barbata — drums, vocals (on track #4)
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Apr 3, 2019
New Spinoff Publication Highlights NASA Technology Everywhere
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: biotech/medical, business, food, space travel, sustainability
From precision GPS to batteries for one of the world’s first commercial all-electric airplanes, NASA technology turns up in nearly every corner of modern life. The latest edition of NASA’s Spinoff publication features dozens of commercial technologies that were developed or improved by the agency’s space program and benefit people everywhere.
“NASA works hard, not only to develop technology that pushes the boundaries of aeronautics and space exploration, but also to put those innovations into the hands of businesses and entrepreneurs who can turn them into solutions for challenges we all face here on Earth,” said Jim Reuter, acting associate administrator of the agency’s Space Technology Mission Directorate. “These are sometimes predictable, like the many NASA technologies now adopted by the burgeoning commercial space industry, but more often they appear in places that may seem unrelated, like hospitals, farms, factories and family rooms.”
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