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XTEND completes $70M Series B round to scale autonomous AI robots across America

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…participating investors, including Len Blavatnik’s Caltech, Union-Tech Ventures and Chartered Group. XTEND systems in use by U.S. D.o.D, Israel Defense Force XTEND said its AI-powered systems are actively used by the U.S. Department of Defense, Singapore, Europe, the UK and the Israel Defense Force to improve strategic capabilities and mission success in challenging environments. With this Series B funding, XTEND…

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Caltech Aims All Terrain M4 Morphobot at NASA Mars Mission

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…researchers, conceptualized a transforming robot. Caltech today announced the Multi-Modality Mobility Morphobot, or M4, which now could be part of future NASA Mars Rover missions. The M4 Morphobot is powered by the NVIDIA Jetson platform for artificial intelligence at the edge and robotics. The institute called the robot the M4 because it can fly, drive, walk, and do eight permutations…

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Caltech’s LEONARDO Bipedal Robot Combines Walking With Flying for More Agile Locomotion

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…Developed by a team at Caltech's Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies (CAST), LEO is the first robot that uses multi-joint legs and propeller-based thrusters to achieve a fine degree of control over its balance. A paper about the LEO robot was published online last week and was featured on the October 2021 cover of Science Robotics. LEO inspired by…

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NASA Perseverance Rover Cores First Rock on Mars

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…exploration of the planet. JPL, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, Calif., built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover. Another successful part of this mission were the 12 flights of the Ingenuity helicopter, the first powered flights on Mars.

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Ingenuity Helicopter Marks Fourth Mars Flight as NASA Prepares for New Demonstration Phase

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…for the Perseverance rover at Caltech in Pasadena, Calif. “We'll spend the next couple of hundred sols executing our first science campaign looking for interesting rock outcrop along this 2-km (1.24-mi.) patch of crater floor before likely heading north and then west toward Jezero Crater's fossil river delta.” While Perseverance conducts these short drives, Ingenuity may land near the rover's…

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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field center in La Cañada Flintridge, Calif. It is administered by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

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NASA Ingenuity Makes History as First Drone Flight on Mars

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…the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for NASA, also had to make sure that Ingenuity and Perseverance could survive the 293 million-mile (471 million-km) trip to Mars and land gently. They built on the experience of Mars landings since Viking 1 in 1975. “The Mars Helicopter project has gone from ‘blue sky’ feasibility study to workable engineering concept to achieving…

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