Sentences with phrase «small robotic projects»
Nor is it obvious how grand a grand challenge can be, such as in space exploration: «You can start this kind of activity with small robotic projects, but at some point it doesn't scale up very well,» says Howard McCurdy, a space historian and public policy professor at American University in Washington, D.C. «Nobody knows where the limit is.»
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For the Harvard Mars project, Ruvkun and colleagues (including former postdoc Michael Finney, co-founder of MJ Research, a major manufacturer of PCR machines) are designing a small, robotic PCR detector that would perform onsite amplification and sequencing of any DNA present in extraterrestrial dirt.
Within government, NASA has taken small steps into the competition arena and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has sponsored Grand Challenge robotic automobile races.
The project, which invites an investigation of solar and alternative energy, uses a small and inexpensive robotic bug to let students see, hands - on, how a solar panel works to convert certain kinds of light energy to electrical energy.