NASA Launches Its Most Advanced Mars Rover Yet

This week NASA's Perseverance Rover was launched to Mars. Perseverance and the Ingenuity helicopter are expected to arrive on Mars early next year. Can't wait to see what this robot accomplishes. What an achievement!

For Knowledge of God’s Creation

For Knowledge of God’s Creation - One more prayer from the Prayers and Thanksgivings section of The Book of Common Prayer and in honor of the launch of the Mars Perseverance Rover this day. This is prayer number 40. For Knowledge of God’s Creation, on page 827. God help us to seek and find you in all places.

NASA Science Live: Perseverance Mars Rover & the Search for Ancient Life

Sad News for the World of Robotics

Such sad news...

IMHC in Pensacola

IHMC (Institute for Human & Machine Cognition in Pensacola, Florida is a not-for-profit research institute of the Florida University System and is affiliated with several Florida universities. There website is here. 

Current active research areas include: artificial intelligence, cognitive science, knowledge modeling and sharing, human interactions with autonomy, humanoid robotics, exoskeletons, advanced interfaces and displays, cybersecurity, communication and collaboration, linguistics and natural language processing, computer-mediated learning systems, intelligent data understanding, software agents, expertise studies, work practice simulation, knowledge representation, big data and machine learning, as well as other related areas.

IHMC faculty and staff collaborate extensively with industry and government to develop science and technology that can be enabling with respect to society’s broader goals. IHMC researchers receive funding from a wide range of government and private sources. IHMC research partners have included: DARPA, NSF, NASA, Army, Navy, Air Force, NIH, IARPA, DOT, IDEO, Raytheon, IBM, Microsoft, Rockwell Collins, Boeing, Lockheed, and SAIC, among others.

Some day I want to go on a tour. Today, I visited at the there new building (right next to their old building).