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Robotic Wheelchair Uses Lasers to Dock Like a Spaceship

A robotic wheelchair that loads itself into its owner's car using the same principles as a spaceship does when docking, has been developed by a team from Pennsylvania. An on-board computer uses LIDAR, or light detecting and ranging, to position the chair when it is loaded into a vehicle—exactly the same technique used by the space truck Jules Verne when it dropped in on the ISS last month. More »

12:30 PM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By AddyDugdale
1,403 views, 10 comments

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Space Truck Executes "Text-Book" Automated Docking at International Space Station

At 10.45 EST this morning, the Jules Verne docked at the International Space Station, with a 7,500-pound cargo containing equipment, supplies, water, food and gases—and no human driver. The AI-assisted landing of the European space truck after a 26-day journey was described as "text-book" and here it is, courtesy of NASA TV. While the Jules-ISS hook-up is not the first unmanned docking, anything with an automated system that can track down an object that is moving at 16,777 miles per hour and attach itself with just a 2-centimeter leeway, is pretty damn awesome in Giz's book. [NASA]

11:23 AM on Thu Apr 3 2008
By AddyDugdale
13,352 views, 57 comments

Latest by ntrgc89: @blanco164: I don't know about before the progress, but yes, the Soviet Union was first to develop automated resupply (as far as I know). I'm not sure why the ATV is suddenly such a big deal because it "docks automatically," more »